Nerves Quotes - Page 17

• What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head as in a watch-tower, having the softest nerves for receiving the greater multitude of spirits necessary for the act of vision!

  Stephen Charnock

  Eye, Vision, Receiving

  Stephen Charnock (2013). “The Existence and Attributes of God”, p.35, Ravenio Books

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• There are only two types of player-those who keep their nerves under control and win championships, and those who do not.

  Harry Vardon

  Sports, Golf, Winning

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• Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories are startling, nerve wracking, provocative: she combines Angela Carter's beautiful style with Patricia Highsmith's malevolent atmospheres. Smyth shatters clichs and dismisses mere sociology. She knows that pleasure is besieged by terror. She tells us what we don't want to know, but need to know. Smyth's writing disturbs us, enrichingly, because truth can never be at peace with language.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Beautiful, Writing, Adventure

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• In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Adults, May, Path

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• The moment you resolve to be victorious, every nerve and fiber in your being will immediately orient itself toward your success.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Fiber, Moments, Resolve

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• It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's an overwhelming environment.

  Donal Logue

  Eye, Feelings, Environment

  "Donal Logue Talks SONS OF ANARCHY, How His Role Came About and His Possible Return Next Season, Plus His Experience in VIKINGS and SILENT NIGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 4, 2012.

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• The most nervous I've ever been was on a 250 pound music video which is the first thing I ever did. And I stepped on there with a directing partner, so I could blame him when everything went tits up. But since then my nerves have incrementally decreased so I'm not plagued by the same sense of nerves as I used to be.

  Guy Ritchie

  Pounds, Video, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable. ... No nation with any sense of material well-being would endure the food we eat, the cramped apartments we live in, the noise, the traffic, the crowded subways and buses. American life, in large cities, at any rate, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves.

  Mary McCarthy

  Life, Character, Cities

  "On the contrary".

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• It's dangerous to get calm. You need some nerves to work from, it's good energy. It's not good to have no nerves. You'd fall asleep on stage.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Fall, Energy, Needs

  "Bob Odenkirk on the Final Days of Breaking Bad". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. August 8, 2013.

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• The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.

  Anne Truitt

  Artist, Discipline, Lifetime

  Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about ‘what is true for me’ is an evasion of the serious business of living. It is the mark of a tragic loss of nerve in our contemporary culture. It is a preliminary symptom of death.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Loss, Serious Business, Culture

  Lesslie Newbigin (2013). “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic”, p.36, SPCK

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• We Americans commercialize everything. Look at what we did to Christmas. Christmas is Jesus' birthday. Now, I don't know Jesus, but from what I read he was the least materialistic person who ever walked the earth. No bling on Jesus. He kept a low profile and we turned his birthday into the most commercial day of the year. In fact we have a whole Jesus birthday season. And then at the end of it, we have the nerve to have an economist come on TV and say what a horrible Jesus birthday season we had.

  Chris Rock

  Jesus, Years, Looks

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• Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

  Horace Bushnell

  Sorrow, Guilt, Guilt Free

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• Only enormously talented people could have made Death to Smoochy . Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make a film so bad, so miscalculated, so lacking any connection with any possible audience.

  Roger Ebert

  People, Connections, Film

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.68, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Climbing up on Solsbury Hill
  I could see the city light
  Wind was blowing, time stood still
  Eagle flew out of the night
  He was something to observe
  Came in close, I heard a voice
  Standing stretching every nerve
  I had to listen, had no choice

  Peter Gabriel

  Time, Night, Light

  Song: Solsbury Hill

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• Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets too.

  Preity Zinta

  Mean, Acting, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are of two kinds: errors that turn out to be true and errors that turn out to be false (which are most of them). But they both have the same character of being an imaginative speculation. I say all this because I want very much to talk about the human side of discovery and progress, and it seems to me terribly important to say this in an age in which most non-scientists are feeling a kind of loss of nerve.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Character, Loss, Two

  Jacob Bronowski (2008). “The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination”, p.84, Yale University Press

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• Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.

  Edmund Burke

  Adversity, Skills, Challenges

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• You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain, too much love drives a man insane. You broke my will, but what a thrill. Goodness gracious, great balls of fire.

  Jerry Lee Lewis

  Song, Men, Fire

  Song: Great Balls of Fire

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• When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Feelings

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.5, editionNEXT.com

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• Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them

  G. Stanley Hall

  Giving, Dancing, Support

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• Ann's got to take her nerve by the horns.

  Virginia Wade

  Tennis, Horns

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• Let's hope his nerves will run through his veins.

  John McEnroe

  Running, Tennis, Veins

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• Choking is being in a position to win, and then experiencing some critical failure of nerve or spirit. That never happened to me. And I can't help but think it was because I was never afraid to lose.

  Pete Sampras

  Winning, Thinking, Tennis

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• Recycle those nerves and make them adreneline.

  Katy Perry

  Racing

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