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- Nov 07, 2020
Calm Quotes
On the discipline of staying calm, in work and in mind.
Calm appears here as a practiced state rather than an accident — admiration for a pharmacist's steady manner, a musician's effort to keep perspective under pressure, and a writer's need for solitude to think clearly. See Calming quotes for related reflections.
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- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is that outer order contributes to inner calm. More than it should.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
The crowd really controls how I am onstage. One show, it might be a lot of young people, super-high-energy dancing. I mirror that. Other shows, it's much more calm.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in L.A. during an earthquake in 1994, an experience that really stressed me out. I started doing yoga to calm my nerves.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
The eye of the hurricane forms as air rotates up and out of the hurricane and some of the air that's being spun out of the top of the storm sinks back into the center. This keeps the eye of the storm relatively calm and clear.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
More than anything else, I'm a very calm person in the sense that I don't worry about the future and what my life could be. I just have to face it, and I'll face it with enthusiasm as well as the desire and curiosity to test myself.
- Argument
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, I want to live a calm life without being in the press. I want to be like any other American citizen who gets a speeding ticket or has an argument with his spouse... and doesn't have the whole world know.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.
- Drank
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of my character to be outgoing and to be vulnerable and to be out there and onstage. My hands were sweaty and I couldn't swallow, and I drank a bottle of wine to calm my nerves.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pathologically calm.
- Golf Ball
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adrenaline is a huge deal. All of a sudden you start hitting the golf ball a little bit farther. You learn to stay within yourself and what you have to do to calm yourself down and stay within your game plan.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rage was in me, and if it wasn't for the rage, then I wouldn't know how to be calm. They feed off of each other. Just like when Malcolm X fed off Martin Luther King. They needed each other.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been through WTO riots in Seattle, massive earthquakes, major floods... forest fires. I just try to be as even-keeled and calm as possible.
- Nov 07, 2020