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Presence Of Mind Quotes - Page 2

Having the presence of mind to react to any situation onstage is what makes the best performers keep their spontaneity intact.

Having the presence of mind to react to any situation onstage is what makes the best performers keep their spontaneity intact.

Marni Nixon
Presence Of Mind, Spontaneity, Situation

I'm confident that there are plenty of people who have the strength of character and the presence of mind to warn me of difficulties and alert me to opportunities.

Tony Abbott
Character, Opportunity, Presence Of Mind
"Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

[Trading] With the French one had to be especially careful. French oarswomen were known to take men aside, point to whatever they wanted, and then peel off their own shirts. It took great presence of mind to bargain with a half-naked Frenchwoman.

Stefan Kieszling
Men, Presence Of Mind, Naked

There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much, but can only bring it to light slowly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Light, Presence Of Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.354, Рипол Классик

Objectivity and presence of mind are essential in such positions where sacrificial temptations are not always resistable.

Leonid Shamkovich
Sacrifice, Presence Of Mind, Objectivity
Leonid Shamkovich, Eric Schiller (1987). “Saving lost positions”, B. T. Batsford Limited

Invoking the letters of God's Name without presence of mind is invocation of the tongue; invoking with presence of mind is invocation of the heart; and invoking with an absence of self-awareness because of absorption in the Invoked is the invocation of the Self - this is the hidden invocation!

Ibn Ata Allah
Heart, Names, Presence Of Mind

I say yes to the hot bath and the sandwich - to getting ourselves into the best possible mental shape to identify and then fight the necessary fights from the best possible mind-state: calm, loving, affectionate, precise. Not pushovers but also not zealots. With the idea in mind that "our enemies" are not our enemies; they might seem like that in their present form but that form can morph. We really are large, and really do contain multitudes. But I think it all has to start with a kindly presence of mind, and the aspiration to affection for others.

George Saunders
Fighting, Thinking, Presence Of Mind
Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening. That is why the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the day. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take heart of grace for the rest of the day.

Franz Kafka
Heart, Eye, Presence Of Mind
Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold (1981). “The Metamorphosis”, Bantam Classics

Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hero, Presence Of Mind, People

There is only one reason I did not go down in flames over the Angers, and that is because I knew I had Julie in the back. Would never have had the presence of mind to put that fire out if I hadn't been trying to save her life.

Elizabeth Wein
Fire, Presence Of Mind, Flames
Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.189, Egmont UK

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