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Hopefully grace, dignity, poise, smarts, calculation – because in the end we’re all wanting to support the nominee. donald Trump’s message is getting a little stale, a little old, looking backwards more than forwards. – David Oman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We don’t want two strong candidates to shred each other and duke it out in the boxing ring and see the best man standing, hopefully grace, dignity, poise, smarts, calculation – because in the end we’re all wanting to support the nominee. – Kelley Koch	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It just shows us how connected we are (against) a team like that that can get in your head and press and cause turnovers, it just shows our poise throughout the game: Just stay level-headed and keep going at it. – Kendall Brown	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The biggest positive was Kaleb was a little flighty early, but he calmed down, i was very proud of the poise of that kid because this was his first Power Five game, and it’s faster. He got hit a couple times, and he kept getting up, kept getting up. – Western Michigan coach Tim Lester	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It was probably a little more on us and how we sat back and didn’t have enough poise and continue to make plays and have the pace that we were having in the second period especially, that was kind of what we wanted to get back to in overtime, and obviously they scored early on. – Ryan Johansen	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
He's a competitor and he seems to have that poise about him, he's impressive. – Connor Murphy	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This was a very innocuous situation that was escalated by the deputies, if those young men had not maintained their poise. Let's say they walked towards the officers to try to explain what had happened to them or if they reached for a cellphone to call their parents, they could have potentially been shot or seriously injured or killed. – Robert Brown	Found on CNN 3 years ago
What I loved was the fact that our guys were able to regather themselves, had our poise and composure about ourselves, in terms of being able to finish out practice, i thought credit to both teams to be able to do that because you see when things get chippy early on, sometimes you end up having to cancel those practices. We definitely didnt want to lose that practice opportunity and to the players credit, we didnt. – Los Angeles	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I feel fortunate to have met these young men and their families. I appreciate the opportunity to listen to their concerns and offer our sincere apologies on behalf of Nordstrom Rack, i also want to thank the young men for their poise in dealing with local law enforcement and the police themselves for handling the situation professionally. – Geevy Thomas	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. – Audrey Hepburn	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
The coaching really helped her gain confidence, and the interviewers were impressed with her updated resume when she arrived, as well as her poise. – Ashley Souza	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
You're on the road, hostile environment--you need to have poise, you need to slow down, execute the play, what happens sometimes in those situations (is that) I think it's really important that you trust each other, and I think a lot of our guys think they need to make the play. And their heart's in the right place, but that's when we need to trust each other on both ends of the floor. – Mike Malone	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Most of us think ourselves as standing wearily and helplessly at the center of a circle bristling with tasks, burdens, problems, annoyance, and responsibilities which are rushing in upon us. At every moment we have a dozen different things to do, a dozen problems to solve, a dozen strains to endure. We see ourselves as overdriven, overburdened, overtired. This is a common mental picture and it is totally false. No one of us, however crowded his life, has such an existence. What is the true picture of your life? Imagine that there is an hour glass on your desk. Connecting the bowl at the top with the bowl at the bottom is a tube so thin that only one grain of sand can pass through it at a time. That is the true picture of your life, even on a super busy day, The crowded hours come to you always one moment at a time. That is the only way they can come. The day may bring many tasks, many problems, strains, but invariably they come in single file. You want to gain emotional poise? Remember the hourglass, the grains of sand dropping one by one. – James Gordon Gilkey	added by anonymous 13 years ago
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. – P. G. Wodehouse	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Hopefully grace, dignity, poise, smarts, calculation – because in the end we’re all wanting to support the nominee. donald Trump’s message is getting a little stale, a little old, looking backwards more than forwards.

– David Oman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We don’t want two strong candidates to shred each other and duke it out in the boxing ring and see the best man standing, hopefully grace, dignity, poise, smarts, calculation – because in the end we’re all wanting to support the nominee.

– Kelley Koch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It just shows us how connected we are (against) a team like that that can get in your head and press and cause turnovers, it just shows our poise throughout the game: Just stay level-headed and keep going at it.

– Kendall Brown

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The biggest positive was Kaleb was a little flighty early, but he calmed down, i was very proud of the poise of that kid because this was his first Power Five game, and it’s faster. He got hit a couple times, and he kept getting up, kept getting up.

– Western Michigan coach Tim Lester

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was probably a little more on us and how we sat back and didn’t have enough poise and continue to make plays and have the pace that we were having in the second period especially, that was kind of what we wanted to get back to in overtime, and obviously they scored early on.

– Ryan Johansen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He's a competitor and he seems to have that poise about him, he's impressive.

– Connor Murphy

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

This was a very innocuous situation that was escalated by the deputies, if those young men had not maintained their poise. Let's say they walked towards the officers to try to explain what had happened to them or if they reached for a cellphone to call their parents, they could have potentially been shot or seriously injured or killed.

– Robert Brown

Found on CNN
3 years ago

What I loved was the fact that our guys were able to regather themselves, had our poise and composure about ourselves, in terms of being able to finish out practice, i thought credit to both teams to be able to do that because you see when things get chippy early on, sometimes you end up having to cancel those practices. We definitely didnt want to lose that practice opportunity and to the players credit, we didnt.

– Los Angeles

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I feel fortunate to have met these young men and their families. I appreciate the opportunity to listen to their concerns and offer our sincere apologies on behalf of Nordstrom Rack, i also want to thank the young men for their poise in dealing with local law enforcement and the police themselves for handling the situation professionally.

– Geevy Thomas

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

– Audrey Hepburn

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

The coaching really helped her gain confidence, and the interviewers were impressed with her updated resume when she arrived, as well as her poise.

– Ashley Souza

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

You're on the road, hostile environment--you need to have poise, you need to slow down, execute the play, what happens sometimes in those situations (is that) I think it's really important that you trust each other, and I think a lot of our guys think they need to make the play. And their heart's in the right place, but that's when we need to trust each other on both ends of the floor.

– Mike Malone

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Most of us think ourselves as standing wearily and helplessly at the center of a circle bristling with tasks, burdens, problems, annoyance, and responsibilities which are rushing in upon us. At every moment we have a dozen different things to do, a dozen problems to solve, a dozen strains to endure. We see ourselves as overdriven, overburdened, overtired. This is a common mental picture and it is totally false. No one of us, however crowded his life, has such an existence. What is the true picture of your life? Imagine that there is an hour glass on your desk. Connecting the bowl at the top with the bowl at the bottom is a tube so thin that only one grain of sand can pass through it at a time. That is the true picture of your life, even on a super busy day, The crowded hours come to you always one moment at a time. That is the only way they can come. The day may bring many tasks, many problems, strains, but invariably they come in single file. You want to gain emotional poise? Remember the hourglass, the grains of sand dropping one by one.

– James Gordon Gilkey

added by anonymous
13 years ago

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

– P. G. Wodehouse

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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