As Jack Miles observed when The Los Angeles Times Book Review honored Stegner for lifetime achievement, "He was calmly putting things together when I believed, instinctively, that what strong writers did was tear things apart".
They gazed calmly at things that were unfamiliar.
"I always try to give the viewer a chance to calmly view things," he said, "not to be manipulated by the sort of aesthetic rape that results from very fast cuts.
Thus, we will "bear calmly those things which happen to us contrary to what the principle of our advantage demands" (IV Appendix XXXII) Satisfaction comes from understanding, and insofar as we have adequate ideas, we are active, thus increasing our power of acting and preserving ourselves.
The first section of the novel occurs, I think, immediately after finishing work on Richard Yates, which was expected to be a time Paul would use to relax and maybe "calmly organize things in his room," but ended up being a time of extreme drug use and almost constant "partying".
Deng summed up the policy in a famous slogan: "Coolly observe, calmly deal with things, hold your position, hide your capacities, bide your time, accomplish things where possible".
Early on she quotes approvingly a maxim from Deng Xiaoping: "Coolly observe, calmly deal with things, hold your position, hide your capacities, bide your time, accomplish things where possible".
"Ratchet down the emotions, repeat things calmly," Dr. Dale said.
He just insists, calmly, on getting things done as he wants them.
He's able to do things calmly today that he was hotheaded about years ago".
