Best 310 quotes in «nervous quotes» category

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.

There are other things that contribute to health besides a balanced diet. There are fresh air and sunlight and lack of nervous tension.

There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity.

There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.

There are two types of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars.

There are many levels of organization in nervous systems. Hence we aim to explain mechanisms at one level in terms of properties and dynamics at a lower level, and to fit that in with the properties at the higher levels.

There are rituals not structures for being a poet, drinking too much, taking too many drugs, being a lady chaser, having your nervous breakdown, being irresponsible about money.

There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.

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.

There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous

They're all... looking... a little... nervous right now

The stage is the place I feel comfortable - it's almost as if real life is where I feel most nervous. Conversations are a lot more nerve-wracking.

We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked!

The status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent.

To be honest, we're really nervous right now. It's our third album, so it's gotta be our best and biggest.

Today's ballroom dances like the swim, the frug, the chicken and the monkey are really nervous disorders set to music.

Torture takes over someone's nervous system. Torture takes over what they feel. Torture takes over and penetrates into their mind and into their body. It's not only illegal, it's immoral.

True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Of all the sense of hearing acute.

Venus told me the other day that champions don't get nervous in tight situations. That really helped me a lot. I decided I shouldn't get nervous and just do the best I can.

Wait." Clary was suddenly nervous. "The melted metal-it could be, like, toxic or something." Maia snorted. "I'm from New Jersey. I born in toxic sludge.

We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first.

We only have our nervous system to paint.

What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I'm far too nervous, too high strung to sit around. It's not my thing; I can't deal with it!

What we experience, as a perceptual experience, is not what is. It's very specific to the nervous system.

We were very nervous at the start, we didn't play our game at all.

When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.

Whenever there's a role that scares me, I get panicked and nervous. I know that greatness might come because I'm going to get out of my own element and comfort zone.

When I first started doing stand-up, I would be so nervous that I would just binge drink really heavily right before my sets, and as you can imagine, that had its drawbacks. But now I'm a professional, so I pace myself throughout the day.

Whenever I feel nervous, I feel like I have to poop.

When I do these interviews, I get really nervous. And when I get nervous, it comes off as mellow for some reason.

When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower.

When I look at my fellow competitors, I say to myself, 'I many be nervous, but you are definetly nervous as well.'

When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

Why should you care for a woman like me? I'm always nervous or sick, or sad or too gay.

With acting, it's all about internalizing the character for me and doing all the preparation you can. So the day you first step into your wardrobe, you can walk like the person. That's really the moment where the light bulb goes off. You're nervous; any actor will tell you that. Robert De Niro will probably tell you the same thing. He may not want to share that with you, but he probably goes through it. That's why actors are so neurotic.

With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge.

With enough emotional intensity and repetition, our nervous systems experience something as real, even if it hasn't occurred yet.

Women without men are usually nervous. ... The important thing is to have a man, even if you just like him. Pleasing him, you will please yourself.

Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

Yeah, I'm nervous. I'm wearing heels in public for crying out loud.

You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.

You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.

You know, after the film I said to myself, "It's a good thing you were so stupid not to be nervous. If I'd been nervous, it would have ruined the whole thing.

When I used to do tours, I'd be anxious and nervous on the plane returning to New York. I now realize the reaction was because I was coming back unemployed. Actors are constantly being put to the test.

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

Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure.

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.

You're making me nervous by being so weird. But your weirdness is what I like about you.

You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.