Best 310 quotes in «nervous quotes» category

Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.

Live in the moment. Feel everything you want to feel. And maybe have a couple of drinks if you're nervous, I guess.

Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.

My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know, and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such beings.

Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.

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.

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.

My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.

Negative thinking will always lead to failure and nervous prostration; but positive faith- positive thinking -will lead you towards happy, healthy, and abundant living.

Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.

Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.

Nervous exhaustion from mental overwork is most often due to neglect of this rule and the brain worker should limit his regular day's work to a reasonable number of hours per day and those when the brain is at its best.

Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

New York... Babylon-on-the-Hudson, sinful, extravagant, full of the nervous hilarity of the doomed.

People who are too uptight make me nervous.

Of all the creative acts performed by the artist, the most directly legible is drawing... it is the act that is most directly and spontaneously governed by his nervous and muscular system.

Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws.

People get nervous accessorising, but there is nothing wrong with adding a belt or a pair of shoes in another colour.

Of course you're nervous going into a final.

One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

People get so stressed and nervous and mad.

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.

Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.

Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.

"Rednecks" always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

Pressure is calming to the nervous system.

Some friends of mine work in an office. They were getting really nervous from their coffee breaks, so they started to have wig breaks. They tried on wigs for 15 minutes. They found this relaxing. So that's Wig Therapy.

Reporting in general makes me pretty nervous. But I realized: all the amazing work experiences of my life were thanks to reporting. So that forces you to go do it.

Right before I got The West Wing, I was pretty much out of money. When I first came in to Warner Brothers, Aaron Sorkin was there. Of course I was nervous; I'm sitting here in front of the guy who wrote "You can't handle the truth!".

Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it.

Sometimes you're so nervous about piloting something that you could probably just not empower others to finish what they're supposed to.

Talking's just a nervous habit.

[Ted] Cruz is going down. He looks like a nervous wreck.

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

Sometimes when Im nervous, thats when the most interesting things happen.

That's the most comfortable place for me. In the beginning, yes, I was nervous going on stage. I was not a natural performer. I really had to acquire that skill.

Tense and nervous are not the words, though they are the words

The dog can only become what's in your bubble. The dog is imitating the energy that is in your bubble. You are the source, the feast of energy. If you feel anxious, the dog becomes anxious with you. If you become nervous, the dog wakes up nervous with you.

The best advertising should make you nervous about what you're not buying.

The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.

The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.

The people gave their money and they gave their screams, but the Beatles gave their nervous systems, which is a much more difficult thing to give.

The live aspect is so thrilling, I get nervous again. It's like going on stage.

The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems capable of deciphering the mission of DNA.

The neurogenetic meaning of the cultural revolution is now clear. Neurochemicals are designed to be pursuitist, not escapist. They open the nervous system to the possibilities of future post-terrestrial evolution.