Nervous Quotes - Page 32

• When you do things in a selfish way, let alone a destructive way, then you are bound by that karma. Your state of mind will go down. You will find yourself becoming depressed, nervous, anxious and upset.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Selfish, Upset

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• No wonder nobody around the world is nervous about America anymore. No wonder we're not intimidating our adversaries and they're running around wild in the world, because they know we're not investing in our defense anymore. We need to make or military strong, not to wage war, but to avoid war and to bring peace and stability in the world.

  Chris Christie

  Running, Strong, Military

  "Shields and Gerson on GOP’s Patriot Act rift, Islamic State’s victories". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2015.

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• I engaged - started engaging in yoga as a physical practice, but very quickly found out there was something broader to it, and that it was actually helpful for my pain, and started to get into meditation, started to study the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita and a lot of the scriptures associated with yoga, the Yoga Sutras, and very quickly came to this conclusion that this had a huge impact on my ability to lead, but, more importantly, the ability to control my sympathetic nervous system, which had a direct tie to the pain in my arm.

  Mark T Bertolini

  Pain, Yoga, Practice

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• I never experienced getting nervous on stage. I think I was most comfortable there.

  Misty Copeland

  Thinking, Stage, Comfortable

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a shy person, so I get really nervous going into interviews.

  Skylar Grey

  Shy, Interviews, Get Real

  "Skylar Grey on Her New Album, Eminem's Mystique and Why She Almost Quit Music (Q&A)". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 9, 2013.

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• In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt buckles he becomes hesitant, and if the stakes are pure gold he becomes nervous and confused. There is no difference as to his skil.

  Zhuangzi

  Confused, Skills, Differences

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• Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.

  Mason Cooley

  Men, Feelings, Womanly

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• I don't know what to do with my arms. It just makes me feel weird and I feel like people are looking at me and that makes me nervous.

  Tyra Banks

  People, Anxiety, Arms

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• The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.

  Peggy Noonan

  Funeral, Faces, Easy

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• It is a fact that plants also have life like animals. But animals are endowed with mind, and nervous systems too while the plants do not possess the same.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Animal, Mind, Facts

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• I had whooping cough when I was very young, which left me with bronchial problems, and I would always pick up colds. I was very thin and nervous so my father and mother took me out of school and had me tutored at home.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Mother, Father, Home

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

  Damien Hirst

  Greatness, Painting, Mark

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• My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.

  Paul Cezanne

  Oil, Survival, Painting

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• I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day to day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.

  Alain de Botton

  Laughter, Optimistic, Laughing

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

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• I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.

  Frank Auerbach

  Degrees, Process, Concentration

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• Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.

  Glenway Wescott

  Confused, Home, Human Nature

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• The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

  Jacques Derrida

  School, Paris, Sick

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• People tend to think astronauts have the courage of a superhero - or maybe the emotional range of a robot. But in order to stay calm in a high-stress, high-stakes situation, all you really need is knowledge. Sure, you might still feel a little nervous or stressed or hyper-alert. But what you won't feel is terrified.

  Chris Hadfield

  Courage, Stress, Emotional

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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• External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system.

  Jaron Lanier

  Reality, Nervous System

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• I was very comfortable on the set of Lost. I was so nervous when I went on to the set because I had just watched all the Lost episodes. I was, like, a fan. A big fan.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Fans, Lost, Episodes

  "Hiro Sanada: Lost's Temple Boss". Interview with Matt Fowler, www.ign.com. February 8, 2010.

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• I was never nervous. That's not me, ... Nervousness, scariness, that's not even in our vocabulary.

  Vince Young

  Vocabulary, Nervousness

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• Coaches do get very nervous.

  Urban Meyer

  Nervousness, Coaches

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• That's the fun part of it all. You get creative when you're in Little League. You're creative when you're in middle school. You're creative in high school and college. And then when you get to the league, this position, the more mobile quarterbacks, we have a tendency to want to become traditional and nervous and panicky in how we want to call plays and put guys in position to make plays.

  Kordell Stewart

  Fun, Creativity, School

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• I never get nervous. Baseball consists of two things: hitting and pitching, and we've got both.

  Carl Pohlad

  Baseball, Two, Hitting

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• America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad situation.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Funny, Sleep, Years

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