Nervous Quotes

• Most nervous I've ever been is probably the 2007 Walker Cup. I was a little boy playing with these 8 or 9 other guys that were the best amateurs in the country.

  

  Rickie Fowler
  • Playing
  • Amateur
  • Walker

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

  

  Ernest Jennings Ford
  • Cat
  • Nervous
  • Rockers

• 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 Sanada
  • Fans
  • Bigs
  • Episodes

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

  

  Courtney Love
  • Nervous
  • Press
  • Disappointing

• It's not like I'm nervous of people seeing what I can or can't do on camera or on TV or anything, or what my engineers think.

  

  Lando Norris
  • People
  • Camera
  • Engineers

• Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of move. Thus, the longer the automaton went on playing game, the more experienced it would become by the accumulation of experimental results. Such a machine precisely represents the acquirement of experience by our nervous organization.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Science
  • Moving
  • Player

• Research, for me, it's trying to get a mood, a mood of a place and style of people and it's also trying to boost my confidence and get the adrenalin flowing. I go off on my trips to odd places and dark corners, feeling somewhat apprehensive and nervous.

  

  Gerald Seymour
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Research

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

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Talking
  • Nervous

• I still get nervous sometimes before performing.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Nervous
  • Performing

• Only when you're nervous do you get nasty.

  

  Deborah Grey
  • Nervous
  • Nasty
  • Only

• Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • Night
  • Audience
  • Nervous

• Every single night I'm nervous.

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • Night
  • Fear
  • Acting

• You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Audience
  • Hours
  • Fifty

• I definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt kind of natural and inevitable and logical.

  

  Sean Astin
  • Kind
  • Feelings
  • Natural

• Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Song
  • Speech
  • Nervous

• The Washington Post is and has been the greatest historic competitor of the New York Times. Half of me, though, the unselfish part of me that is just a journalist, is thrilled. I want newspapers to succeed. Let's take the Guardian, which is a new competitor in the digital age. Does it make me nervous that they compete with us and in fact beat us on the Snowden story? Yes. The part of me that's a competitive journalist and wants to fight and play says: bring them on! It's more fun that way.

  

  Dean Baquet
  • Fun
  • Age
  • Succeed

• I'm always nervous about singing...always. It may be one of the only things I sweat about.

  

  Ed Robertson
  • Singing
  • Nervous
  • Sweat

• 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’d only met him once, at the mall. He was tall, with a big floppy shock of blond hair he was always getting out of his face by jerking his head suddenly to the side, whiplash-style. Rina found this incredibly sexy. It made me nervous. - Caitlin about Jeff

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Style
  • Hair
  • Sexy

• Serafina was late for dinner because her emotional robots had been having a nervous breakdown.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Emotional
  • Late
  • Robots

• If people want to invade your privacy, they want to invade your privacy. I find it chilling, and I find it awful, and it makes me really nervous. It hasn't happened to me much, but when you have a taste of it, it's bitter.

  

  Ruth Negga
  • Bitter
  • Taste
  • Chill

• I always get nervous when I watch what I'm in. Very self-critical.

  

  Michael Socha
  • Always
  • Watch
  • Nervous

• The toughest part is that when your kid's upset, you're upset. You're rocked until they're not upset. Even when they're not upset, you're like, "I hope that doesn't happen, down the line." You're always nervous because you want your kid to be happy.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Hope

• 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

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