Things don’t always go your way in football: there are always good and bad times. At the end of the day, you have to have a positive attitude and a strong mentality and not let any setbacks get you down. And that’s what I’ve done – I’ve tried to keep my composure, even when things aren’t going the way I’d like.

Always maintain your composure.

Ballet is something for which you need so much control and composure. And there’s an element to acting that is the complete opposite. You have to be able to completely let go and reveal everything about yourself. It’s about being very vulnerable.

I will make arrangements for you and Portia to return to London the following day. I will be closing up the house. I am leaving England for a while.” “For how long?” I asked him, determined to keep my composure. “Until I am quite recovered from you,” he said evenly. “When will you return?” “Never.

Losing composure is pointless.

A lady must retain always her composure. Even in a rainstorm, she must appear joyous and dry. When she loses her composure, then the respect of her peers and her staff will follow in short order.

One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.

Yves Saint Laurent liked women to put their hands in their pockets, or to hold cigarettes, and act a bit like boys. It was to give an impression of composure, some self-assurance, and to counter the feminine appearance.

The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

You must keep your composure. Take charge of the huddle. Be a leader. And silence, the crowd.

We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn’t overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.

I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God.

I always think that the most interesting characters are those that are trying to cover something or those that have some sense of bravado or composure.

We’ve had Obama for eight years, who, to me, is a model of integrity, sensitivity, empathy. He’s wise, he’s patient, he maintains his composure, and I would have voted for him again.

I consider myself a decent athlete but when I started to train martial arts like Kung Fu, I realised it had nothing to do with how athletic you are. It’s all mental. It’s what you know, how you use it and your mental toughness and composure. It’s incredible.

It’s about being smart, taking your time, keeping your composure, just going out there and being the best that you can be

When you have to write a letter, you’re automatically put into a state of composure and a kind of formality. You can’t help it. So, no, I never once got a letter where someone just popped off at me.

What’s this?” he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there. “It’s a girl,” Jace said,recovering his composure. “Surely you’ve seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.

I do not read newspapers. I do not take any information which I don’t want to take. I make sure I keep my composure.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. Unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to concentrate and how to maintain composure.

To bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty

Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your reality.

Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to “rejoice together, mourn together,” and to “delight in each other, make others‘ conditions our own.

Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking; and the result is a structure of absolute balance and solid composure.

It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.

In times of upheaval, people wish for nothing more than composure and sincerity.

Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and strategies that are distinguished as innovative in their first incarnation can quickly become stale in the hands of lesser artists.

As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me. Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations.

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

Always keep your composure. You can’t score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

You must be practically a hero to retain your composure in the midst of universal panic. But just try to scream and tear around when everyone else is going about his business — that takes a lot of audacity.

Everyone knows that in most people’s estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly.

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

I always made sure that I kept the dignity, or tried to keep the dignity that they showed, by standing there and singing and not doing too much else, because I didn’t know what else to do. But you know, sometimes you can get carried away and I don’t know, lose your composure or something.

Sometimes it was really hard maintaining composure. People were just goofy.

Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

In the divorce my ex got everything. Even kept her composure

… he remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage.

He turned to face her again, his late-pretty composure crumbling. “But you’re…” “Pretty? Think again.” She smiled. “I’m Tally Youngbood. My mind is very ugly. And I’m taking your car.