quotes about Nervous
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In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.
-- Al AlvarezSource : Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing
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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
-- Alain de Botton -
I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
-- Alan Rickman -
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You should go to work every day a little bit nervous.
-- Alexa Von Tobel -
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
I was nervous. I mean, I'd met the Beatles, and Elvis, and everybody, but this was Salvador Dalà . This was like my history.
-- Alice Cooper -
A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.
-- Amy Winehouse -
I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.
-- Andrew DentonSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.
-- Andy Gibb -
I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.
-- Andy Murray -
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I'm not a very good lover. I'm so nervous about my sexuality.
-- Anna FarisSource : "Faris names her number". pagesix.com. September 29, 2011.
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There is something about fashion that can make people really nervous.
-- Anna Wintour -
A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.
-- Art Buchwald -
Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.
-- Arthur Koestler -
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I was definitely nervous turning up on my first day to shoot with Woody Allen.
-- Ashley MadekweSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues.
-- Bengie MolinaSource : Source: www.businessinsider.com
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I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.
-- Bernhard LangerSource : Interview with Julius Mason, www.rydercup.com. September 14, 2004.
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I actually am a phobic twitchy sort of nervous guy.
-- Billy Bob Thornton -
God's never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
-- Bob Goff -
When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.
-- Bruce ForsythSource : "Glastonbury: Bruce Forsyth 'very emotional' after one of biggest gigs of his life" by Mark Jefferies, www.mirror.co.uk. June 30, 2013.
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I love my nose! I was so nervous when I got pregnant that I was going to get that weird nose spread that you sometimes see pregnant ladies get.
-- Busy Philipps -
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
-- Carl Rogers -
Am I nervous? Yeah. Am I scared? Sure. But I do this because I love it.
-- Cat Zingano -
You can tell how nervous I am by how fast I am talking!
-- Catherine Deneuve -
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Part of the problem is that he lacks confidence. He is nervous
-- Charles ClarkeSource : "Clarke: Brown must prove fitness to be PM" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2006.
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Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.
-- Charles Scott Sherrington -
That was awesome. I wasn't expecting it and when I got the call I got nervous for a second. But I was just really excited.
-- Charline Labonte -
I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
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Sometimes when Im nervous, thats when the most interesting things happen.
-- Chelsea Peretti -
Tense and nervous are not the words, though they are the words
-- Chris Kamara -
I'm always nervous before I go on stage, but once I'm out there everything is great and it's my favorite place to be.
-- Christina Aguilera -
I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.
-- Clare Boothe Luce -
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We were very nervous at the start, we didn't play our game at all.
-- Claudio Ranieri -
I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.
-- Corey Haim -
I very rarely get nervous as an actor. Very rarely.
-- Corin NemecSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.
-- Damien Hirst -
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Estate taxes make every one of us nervous. If there’s an owner who isn’t, he has his head in the sand.
-- Dan Rooney -
Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.
-- Danica PatrickSource : Danica Patrick talks about the Indy 500, www.newsday.com.
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Innate directs its vital energy through the nervous system to specialize the coordination and sensation and volition through the cumulative and vegetative functions.
-- Daniel D. Palmer -
The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.
-- Daniel Dennett -
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One time I was hanging out with a girl and I wanted to kiss her. I was too nervous to do it, so I wrote 'Can I kiss you?' on a Post-It and handed it to her. And it worked!
-- Dave FrancoSource : "3 Dating Tricks From Dave Franco" by Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. May 30, 2013.
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Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.
-- David AbramSource : David Abram (2010). “Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology”, p.134, Vintage
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They're all... looking... a little... nervous right now
-- Davina McCall -
Only when you're nervous do you get nasty.
-- Deborah GreySource : Deborah Grey (2004). “Never retreat, never explain, never apologize: my life, my politics”
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I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous.
-- Demi Moore -
I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.
-- Devon SawaSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Before every performance I feel nervous.
-- Diego BonetaSource : "Diego Boneta Dishes On His New Movie, Rock of Ages". Interview with Ellen Collis, www.seventeen.com. January 11, 2012.
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I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.
-- Donald Barthelme -
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If it makes you nervous- you're doing it right.
-- Donald Glover -
I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh.
-- Dontrelle Willis -
When I get nervous, I get word vomit.
-- Dreama WalkerSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.
-- Edward Dyson -
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I just said to myself, She's just like you, you know, she can be nervous
-- Elena Dementieva -
It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.
-- Eric Kandel -
Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.
-- Fannie Hurst -
I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.
-- Frank Auerbach -
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The best thing about golf is ultimately what it teaches you about yourself. And the worst thing is how freakin' nervous it can make you feel.
-- Gabrielle Reece -
I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there’s $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she’ll get another paycheck. I have no idea,
-- Gaby Hoffmann -
Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.
-- Galen -
But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn't care for the sensation, yet I realized it was possibly a natural progression of my evolving soul, and therefore I tried my best to embrace it.
-- Garth Stein -
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Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us.
-- Gary Lutz -
The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.
-- Georg Simmel -
Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.
-- George Crumb -
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
-- George Orwell -
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Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).
-- Georges Bataille -
If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.
-- Gertrude Stein -
You do feel kind of nervous about any film you take on.
-- Guy Pearce -
If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
-- Haile Gebrselassie -
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If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.
-- Hale Irwin -
I mean, we did feel nervous, starting out, but I wouldnt say it was hard. We just did what we loved and thankfully it worked out for the best.
-- Hayley Williams -
It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.
-- Henry Adams -
I was very comfortable on the set of Lost. I was so nervous when I went on to the set because I had just watched all the Lost episodes. I was, like, a fan. A big fan.
-- Hiroyuki SanadaSource : "Hiro Sanada: Lost's Temple Boss". Interview with Matt Fowler, www.ign.com. February 8, 2010.
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Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story.
-- Hunter Hayes -
As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.
-- Ivan Pavlov -
Be very nervous of the shaky hands.
-- Ja RuleSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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When I do these interviews, I get really nervous. And when I get nervous, it comes off as mellow for some reason.
-- Jack Johnson -
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I get nervous when I fly; I'm used to walking with my feet.
-- Jack Johnson -
You're making me nervous by being so weird. But your weirdness is what I like about you.
-- Jaclyn MoriartySource : Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Year of Secret Assignments”, p.78, Scholastic Inc.
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I'm nervous when taking part in any movie.
-- Jamie Campbell Bower -
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I think I'm nervous to sign on to any job.
-- Jamie Campbell BowerSource : "Jamie Campbell Bower Talks Fake Tattoos, Female Protagonists, Working with Lily Collins, and More on the Set of THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. February 14, 2013.
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I like ties but I prefer not to wear one when I'm nervous.
-- Jamie Oliver -
I think I failed miserably on NewsRadio. I was very nervous because of the caliber of the cast - especially Dave Foley - so I think I did a terrible job.
-- Janeane Garofalo -
I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.
-- Janet McTeer -
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I don't like meat from the grocery store, it makes me nervous
-- Jase Robertson -
It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can't fix it.
-- Jason Aldean -
I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.
-- Jeff Koons -
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If I'm with a group of people, I'm okay, but actually I'm quite a nervous person if I'm just one-to-one with somebody.
-- Jenna ColemanSource : "'Clara is the closest to me I've ever played': Jenna-Louise Coleman admits affinity with Doctor Who role can be hard" by Rob Leigh, www.mirror.co.uk. May 14, 2013.
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I still get nervous when I have a lot of makeup on, a big hairdo, and a dress.
-- Jenna Fischer -
I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.
-- Jensen Ackles -
Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.
-- John C. Reilly -
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Once you get into the groove of things and in the mood you are usually fine; it is before the event that you get nervous and irritable.
-- John Gallagher, Jr. -
The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.
-- John Holmes -
When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.
-- John von NeumannSource : "John Von Neumann, 1903-1957". Book edited by John C. Oxtoby, Billy J. Pettis and G. B. Price, 1958.
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The bigger the show, the better I'd play. It was what I was waiting for, and I'd never get nervous.
-- Johnny RamoneSource : FaceBook post by Johnny Ramone from Jul 15, 2015
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