Knowing who you're meeting and how to address the individual will make you look poised and you'll be more comfortable when asking questions.
You peer down into a Rolleiflex, which is often more helpful than sticking a single-lens reflex in front of your face, but the machinery still blocks you off from your subjects — you still can't look at them, as you would at someone whom you wished to scare, or with whom you were poised to fall in love.
"If you have a patron who can get you into the queue for jobs when you're young, ahead of other people, you are poised for greatness," says Minxin Pei of Claremont McKenna College.
When you know that each thought or feeling that you have comes and goes like waves, then you are poised to "ride the wave" and normalize any feeling state as it arises.
As you deliberate the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, you are poised to make a decision that will signal either a dangerous commitment to the status quo, or bold leadership that will inspire millions counting on you to do the right thing for our shared climate.
If you're poised, ready to troll, I say only this: do you really want to prove me right?
If you're poised to bid on a case of 1990 Château Margaux, you can use an app (WinePrices.com, for one) to type in an object's name and get a list of previous prices realized.
Create an outdoor captive habitat - if you live in a warm, dry climate similar to that described above, you are poised to emulate the tortoise's natural habitat by building an outdoor pen for your new pet.
"And you see her and you see her face poised; you know she's looking at a canvas.
"At 20 games over, you are poised to make something happen as far as the postseason.
