A Quote by Earl Wilson

Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.

Earl Wilson

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Ability Ease Ill Poise

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Earl Wilson
American - Celebrity
May 3, 1907 - January 16, 1987

Others make a point of trying to attain the precision and poise they see in those who have the ability to choose from a great number of horses those with [...] qualities found in only a very small number of horses. This leads to a circumstance in which these imitators of such studied poise mortify the spirit of a noble horse, and remove from it all of the goodness of temperament Nature has given it.

Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership.

Robert R. Shannon

The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.

Ovid

On Chris Evert: Before I even met her, she stood for everything I admired in this country: poise, ability, sportsmanship, money, style.

Martina Navratilova

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

Ovid

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).

James Thurber

I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.

George Herbert

Confidence - Poise and confidence are not possible unless you have prepared correctly. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. Poise and confidence are a natural result of proper preparation.

John Wooden

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

I was very ill at ease with people in social situations, and I realized that if I photographed I wouldn't have to chat.

Martine Franck

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

George Eliot

Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.