Word: self-control
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Somehow, Washington kept patience and hope. His capacity for self-control was enormous: when the news of Benedict Arnold's treason reached him, he sent his aide, Colonel Alexander Hamilton, 24, riding off to intercept the traitor, calmly ate dinner, did his best to comfort Arnold's hysterical wife, and within three hours revamped the defenses of Arnold's exposed post-the Hudson narrows at West Point -so that the British could not storm it. When mutinies broke out among Pennsylvania and New Jersey troops in 1781, Washington suppressed them sternly, not because he was harsh...
...Conversely, defeat lays bare a man's most homicidal instincts. Legend has it that after a chess game a prince of Bavaria was brained by a son of the King of France. Reshevsky appears impervious to these emotional tides. He is both admired and detested for his glacial self-control. "He acts as though he can save any game, no matter how hopeless the position," complained one master bitterly...
...reaching stride of a hurdler or high-jumper, and husky enough (200 Ibs.) for the heavy-duty weight events. He has the steel-spring legs of a sprinter, the back muscles of a pole vaulter and the barrel chest of a distance man. He also has the nerveless self-control to make the most of his natural advantages, and the confidence of a champion who knows that his only real competition is the law of gravity and the pull of time...
...thousands of dollars worth of goods. Back in jail, Wright said simply: "With me, it just didn't work." Dr. Edward E. Mayer, Allegheny County court behavior expert, went further: in his opinion there was never any reason to believe that it would work, because a lobotomy reduces self-control...
...India it was the way that stressed the preservation of the best that man has attained; in Japan the ways that stressed sympathetic concern for other persons and stoical self-control; in China the ways that stressed identification with the group for the achievement of social goals and letting oneself be an instrument of the great powers at work in the world...