Nervous Quotes

• The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

  

  William James
  • Education
  • Enemy
  • Nervous

• She would try to relieve the pain of love by first roughly rubbing her dry lips against mine; then my darling would draw away with a nervous toss of her hair, and then again come darkly near and let me feed on her open mouth, while with a generosity that was ready to offer her everything, my heart, my throat, my entrails, I gave her to hold in her awkward first the scepter of my passion.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Trying
  • Heart
  • Pain

• 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
  • Head
  • Sand
  • Estate

• And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures... Which one will it be? Time alone will tell. But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future.

  

  Adolfo Bioy Casares
  • Writing
  • Reason
  • Helping

• Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

  

  Kevin James
  • Relationship
  • Audience
  • Excited

• I'm never nervous.

  

  Bono U2
  • Nervous

• Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.

  

  Erica Jong
  • World
  • Culture
  • Poet

• Getting up in front and talking to the people who build my cars is the worst. I get so damn nervous.

  

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
  • People
  • Talking
  • Getting

• It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous.

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • Children
  • Confused
  • Cream

• I get nervous about press and about being rejected or disappointing myself.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Nervous
  • Press
  • Disappointing

• You figure you train all year for this, you're so nervous, so you might as well stand on the ice and enjoy it for more than five seconds. I realize everything I have been through and what I have done, appreciate the audience. It's nice to have just 30 seconds of relief.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Enjoy
  • Nervous
  • Figure

• I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • People
  • Way
  • Golf

• Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to come out easily in the beginning. If you're afraid to say what you really have to say, you stammer. When you're thinking of your listener, that's when you start stuttering and it's just because you're nervous that your listener is passing judgment.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Students

• I think in that game it was total domination all the way across the board. I don't know what else to say about it. Everybody who watched it would probably say the same thing. It can happen to anybody in this league, but I also think they're very, very good. We'll be a little nervous about playing them because they kind of overwhelmed us that first time.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Time
  • Good
  • Game

• I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.

  

  Tom Hollander
  • Fame
  • Lifestyle
  • Realising

• There are all these awards that you've never heard of, and you get nominated, and suddenly you're at these awards shows, so you really don't care if you win. You really don't. You're going there, you're getting dressed up. And then you get to the awards show, and you sit down. You walk the red carpet. Everybody loves you. It's great. You sit down, and all of a sudden your category comes up, and you get nervous. And it's a complicated emotion, because it's not like you absolutely want to win, but then you don't want to lose.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Care
  • Winning
  • Emotion

• I think the joy of wanting to direct is having that nervous anxiety knowing your film is about to be shown and you're sitting right there with everyone.

  

  Renee O'Connor
  • Thinking
  • Anxiety
  • Sitting

• You can tell how nervous I am by how fast I am talking!

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Talking
  • Nervous

• I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!

  

  Ernest Jennings Ford
  • Cat
  • Nervous
  • Rockers

• I don't get nervous on a stage; I don't get nervous in interviews. I don't get nervous.

  

  Eva Marie Saint
  • Stage
  • Nervous
  • Interviews

• You're always nervous about what critics say - about what anybody has to say, really.

  

  Ethan Slater
  • Critics
  • Nervous

• In those days, in Far Rockaway, there was a youth center for Jewish kids at the temple.... Somebody nominated me for president of the youth center. The elders began getting nervous, because I was an avowed atheist by that time.... I thought nature itself was so interesting that I didn't want it distorted like that. And so I gradually came to disbelieve the whole religion.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Kids
  • Interesting
  • President

• Most of my career I've spent really nervous. Just about work, getting work and having it in.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Work
  • Career
  • Nervous

• If you want to perform at your ultimate best, if you want to be the best you can be in sports and in school, mentally, physically - chiropractic is the way, because everything has to do with your nervous system.

  

  Jonathan Lipnicki
  • School
  • Sports
  • Ultimate

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