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• You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

  Margaret Atwood

  Needs, Certain, Amount

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005”, p.106, Basic Books

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• Being unprepared heightens nerves.

  James Galway

  Unprepared

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• Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

  Sean O'Casey

  Money, Doe, Make You Happy

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• The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

  Jack Valenti

  Understanding, Edginess, Film

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• I definitely wanted this win today and I don't want anybody to talk about my nerves anymore.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Sports, Winning, Want

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  Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.141, Vivekananda Kendra

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• How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Faith, Eye

  "The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are". Book by Alan Watts, 1966.

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• I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.

  Roberto Bolano

  Relax, And Love, Razors

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• The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

  Andrew Greeley

  Leadership, Ice, Church

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• It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!

  Naomi Watts

  Farewell, Men, Clothes

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• I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

  Shawn Johnson

  Reality, Focus, Joy

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• Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

  Marsha Norman

  Family, Mean, Being Thankful

  Marsha Norman (1983). “'Night, Mother”, p.19, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Should Have, Iron, Mind

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• The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.

  William James

  Prayer, Exercise, Doctors

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1982). “Essays in Religion and Morality”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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• Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves." "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.

  Jane Austen

  Children, Mistake, Compassion

  Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë (2017). “The Complete Works of Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abby, Persuasion, The Watsons, Sanditon, Lady Susan, Love and Freindship, The History of England, Lesley Castle”, p.261, e-artnow

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• Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

  Richard Halliburton

  Graduation, Senior, Memorable

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• Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Dream, Mean, Science

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.515, e-artnow

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• Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

  Walter Bagehot

  Life, Courage, War

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• Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Country, Men, Thinking

  "The Plain Dealer" (Cleveland Plain Dealer) Newspaper, October 24, 1932.

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• Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

  Herbert Gold

  Memories, Careers, Literature

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• Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.

  Bram Stoker

  Thinking, Mad, Long

  Bram Stoker (1904). “Dracula”, p.330, Hayes Barton Press

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• Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

  Paul Theroux

  Writing

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• He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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• I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

  Quentin Crisp

  God, Order, Giving

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• Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.

  Fritz Kreisler

  Men, Numbers, Roaring

  Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.21, Pickle Partners Publishing

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