#calm

I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy. ↗

— Walter Matthau

#buy #calm #coat #dressed #give

I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm. Kind of like a Faustian thing, I think. ↗

— Neko Case

#calm #dig #feeling #i #i think

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#calm #else #find #look #nowhere

My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer. ↗

— Liza Minelli

#calmer #father #highly #mother #much

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#best #calmly #contribution #do your best #else

Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#debate #drive #effectiveness #logical #maximum

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#conversational #criticism #essay #even #fiction

I'll generally write out every scene that's in the film on a couple of pieces of paper, just with a little one-line. And then I can scan it a bit and go, 'This first third of the film, generally, I'm kind of calm.' Then I might do something on one piece of paper that just relates to the energy of the character. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#calm #character #couple #energy #every

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#avoid #belief #calm #change #dissatisfied

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking. ↗

— Mary Pipher

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