It is not the man who is ...

It is not the man who is beside himself, but he who is cool and collected,--who is master of his countenance, of his voice, of his actions, of his gestures, of every part of his play,--who can work upon others at his pleasure.
It is not the man who is beside himself, but he who is cool and collected,--who is master of his countenance, of his voice, of his actions, of his gestures, of every part of his play,--who can work upon others at his pleasure.
 Denis Diderot

More phrases

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
 See image
 Napoleon Hill
Never complain and never explain.
 See image
 Benjamin Disraeli
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 See image
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 See image
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 See image
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Quotes from the same author

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
 See image
 Denis Diderot
If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant's reasoning to the grown man's passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother.
 See image
 Denis Diderot
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
 See image
 Denis Diderot
In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.
 See image
 Denis Diderot
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
 See image
 Denis Diderot