Nerves Quotes - Page 34

• Those who say there's nothing like a nice cup of tea for calming the nerves never had *real* tea. It's like a syringe of adrenaline straight to the heart!

  Cheshire Cat

  Real, Nice, Heart

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• Nerves are always a big problem for me, which is why I loved doing American sitcoms. Because you know when you do the take in front of the audience that you're going to do it again afterwards. A minute after you finish, you just go and do it again. So, there's that sort of safety net. And then if you made a little mistake or two, they'll go pick it up, so there's nothing to worry about.

  John Cleese

  Mistake, Two, Safety

  Interview with Tracy Smith, www.cbsnews.com. October 25, 2015.

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• That's a lovely experience when you make an audience laugh. Then the nerves go away for a bit. And sometimes you do things then that you've never done before that are really funny.

  John Cleese

  Laughing, Lovely, Going Away

  Interview with David Morgan, www.cbsnews.com. October 25, 2015.

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• I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.

  Terry McMillan

  Letters, Innocent, Used

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are a lot of signs. One of the things that makes me most nervous is the disappearance of the frogs. They're going downhill all over the planet. Frogs are susceptible to all kinds of problems, because they require water to breed and their skin is very porous. Their condition is nerve racking.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Water, Skins, Frogs

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• I think I am worthwhile just because I have optical nerves and can try to put down what they perceive. What a fool!

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, Trying, Fool

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.20, Anchor

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• We have the power, knowledge, and equipment to build a world beyond our wonder. Only loss of nerve can defeat us.

  James Dillet Freeman

  Loss, World, Wonder

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• I have an unfortunate compulsion. I really would rather not do it, as it is very nerve-wracking and un-fun. But when it works, there is nothing like it.

  John Hodgman

  Fun, Compulsion, Unfortunate

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• Failure isn't a problem. It's the fear of failure that's the limiting factor. You can't lose your nerve for the big failure, because it's the exact same nerve you need for the big success.

  Regina E. Dugan

  Needs, Problem, Fear Of Failure

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• If you're not mentally tough,
  If nerves undo you instead of focus you,
  If you don't have the inner arrogance
  That you absolutely have what it takes to win,
  If you don't see, in your mind's eye,
  A picture of yourself winning - then you won't win;
  And not because you can't.

  Summer Sanders

  Eye, Winning, Focus

  Summer Sanders (1999). “Champions are Raised, Not Born: How My Parents Made Me a Success”

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• What happened was, I always wanted to be a singer/songwriter kind of guy like a James Taylor or Crosby, Stills and Nash type of thing; I went to a lot of coffee houses and used to watch all those guys, but I never had the nerve to get up and do it because singing seems so personal and intimate to me. It was too revealing.

  Kevin Nealon

  Coffee, Guy, House

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• I gave to pink, the nerve of the red, a neon pink, an unreal pink.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Neon, Red, Unreal

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• My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Iron, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2090, Manonmani Publishers

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• With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.

  Aaron Ashmore

  Expectations, Trying, Legs

  "Aaron Ashmore Exclusive Interview WAREHOUSE 13". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 6, 2011.

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• I try not to set myself up as different or as a celebrity or special. I have a husband that can get on my nerves. I have kids that test my patience. I've got a cat I can't keep off the sofa. It's real. On a bad day, I'm reading 'Acts of Faith.'.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Husband, Real, Reading

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• As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than it is to let them grow up into young thugs who have to be sent to prison, not to mention the savings in the wear and tear on the nerves, property, and safety of the rest of the citizenry.

  Molly Ivins

  Growing Up, School, Kids

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• Once the fifth set comes, it's a matter of nerves.

  Pete Sampras

  Matter, Fifth

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• Stop asking for directions so much. Assuming that you're in a safe environment, pay attention and figure things out for yourself. Have the nerve to take a wrong turn now and then. You'll develop better working instincts and have more self-esteem too.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Self Esteem, Safe Environment, Pay

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• You should always view any job as just as nerve-wracking or just as exciting as any other.

  Giles Matthey

  Jobs, Views, Should

  Source: collider.com

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• Too many people believe that one big, public success will solve their self-confidence problems forever. That only happens in the movies. In real life, the opposite strategy is what works. Call it the small victo-ries approach. In time you will discover that all failing really does teach you something you needed to know- so you can regroup and stretch again, with ever more...nerve.

  Jack Welch

  Real, Believe, Self Confidence

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• Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.

  Michael Caine

  Jobs, Hands, Wings

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• I'm fascinated by mankind. I grew up watching 'Candid Camera' and thought it was funnier than any standup, any joke, anything that could possibly be written because you're dealing with humanity. And people can relate to that. It touches everybody who sees it. It hits a nerve.

  Howie Mandel

  Candid Camera, People, Humanity

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• Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve to hear Mother's words.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Fine, Heard

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• I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears.

  Tori Spelling

  Irrational Fear, Bundles, Irrational

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• The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.

  Shania Twain

  Spotlight, Littles, Red

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

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