Nervous Quotes - Page 29

• If you want to perform at your ultimate best, if you want to be the best you can be in sports and in school, mentally, physically - chiropractic is the way, because everything has to do with your nervous system.

  Jonathan Lipnicki

  Sports, School, Want

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

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• I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.

  Gene Wilder

  Love, Art, Acting

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• Up till now, we can suppose, nervous systems solved the 'Now what do I do?' problem by a relatively simple balancing act between a strictly limited repertoire of actions - if not the famous four F's (fight, flee, feed, or mate), then a modest elaboration of them.

  Daniel Dennett

  Fighting, Simple, Four

  "Consciousness Explained". Book by Daniel Dennett, 1991.

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• Guys usually like a very natural look. I think it's bad idea to wear a strong lip on a first date - or for the first few dates. I'm always too nervous he'll kiss it off - if I'm lucky enough to get a kiss! I also think soft, sexy hair is important.

  Emmy Rossum

  Sexy, Strong, Kissing

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• The brain, which operates on electromagnetic impulses, is as much an activity of the universe as are the electromagnetic storms in the atmosphere or on a distant star. Therefore science is one form of electromagnetism that spends it time studying another formscience is god explaining god through a human nervous systemisn't spirituality the same thing?

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Stars, Atmosphere

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• I'd just like to see thinking come back in style. I haven't heard a new idea in eight years. Let's get ordinary people arguing and talking again. I want to trigger new circuits in their nervous systems. That's the philosopher's job and I am the most important philosopher at this time.

  Timothy Leary

  Jobs, Thinking, Eight

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• I think the joy of wanting to direct is having that nervous anxiety knowing your film is about to be shown and you're sitting right there with everyone.

  Renee O'Connor

  Thinking, Knowing, Joy

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• People say to me that I cant be nervous because Ive had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.

  Brenda Blethyn

  People, Done, Wealth

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• I come from the bush ... where men are men, and the sheep are nervous.

  Tommy Emmanuel

  Men, Sheep

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• I really don't get nervous when I perform - it's more of an exciting feeling than anything else. But put me in a classroom with kids my age and have me take a test and yeah, I'll be nervous!

  Alexa Vega

  Kids, Feelings, Age

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

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• He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.

  Jack Kroll

  Artist, Joy, Spirit

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• What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.

  Chris Martin

  Birthday, Horse, Age

  "We're about to be fed to the lions" by Craig McLean, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2008.

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• I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.

  Donald Barthelme

  Thinking, Cities, Made

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• I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem.

  Loretta Lynn

  Energy, Seems

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.13, Vintage

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• That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom - these are the traits of the frontier.

  Frederick Jackson Turner

  Powerful, Evil, Mind

  Frederick Jackson Turner (2012). “The Frontier in American History”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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

  Terrence McNally

  Writing, Play, Breakdown

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• Sometimes, when I get a good picture, it feels like I have taken another nervous step into increasingly rarified air. Each good-news picture, no matter how hard-earned, allows me only a crumbling foothold on this steepening climb—an ascent whose milestones are fear and doubt.

  Sally Mann

  Taken, Air, Doubt

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• The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

  Simone Weil

  Spiritual, Block, Real

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.189, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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

  Albert E Cliffe

  Positive Thinking, Healthy, Negative

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• Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake of liquor to a liter and a half of wine.

  Judith Thurman

  Wine, Sobriety, Alcohol

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• As soon as we finished filming, I felt like I had been woken up from a magical dream and had to pinch myself to remember that it was real. Every scene is now a blur. I feel like I will be watching it for the first time with the rest of the world. I am nervous. But excited.

  Lucy Fry

  Dream, Real, World

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• All the information in the universe, plus several bits from other dimensions that I'm still trying to sort out, have just been mainlined into my nervous system. The shards from a googleplex of infobits seem to be stuck in the part of my brain just above the pineal gland. Yes, I've just been reading Kenji Siratori again. This is my idea of a good time.

  R. U. Sirius

  Reading, Ideas, Brain

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• Some parents were nervous about how they would portray everything, ... At a picnic the moms put on for the team and coaches, I said that all the reality shows are turning around and showing good things, not bad things.

  Dick Butkus

  Mom, Team, Reality

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• So I go to the studio, and just say, 'Hi Paul, it's me, Rusty.' I think I kept it together pretty well, although I was pretty nervous. And before the day is over I'm playing guitar, and there's Paul McCartney over there, playing his Hofner bass and singing. All I can do is think, 'This life is so so bizarre.'

  Rusty Anderson

  Thinking, Guitar, Singing

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• We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Science is all metaphor. In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. If you don't like what you are doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

  Timothy Leary

  Philosophy, Moving, Games

  Lecture, June 1966, in Politics of Ecstasy (1968) ch. 21

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