Nervous Quotes - Page 35

• A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion. . . . A race whose typical member is eternally torn between a passion for righteousness and a desire to get on in the world.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Religious, Passion, Yankees

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• The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

  Lin Yutang

  Achievement, Unhappy, Desire

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Electricity, Human Experience, Humans

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• Because of the movies I make, people get nervous. They think of me as difficult and angry. I am difficult and angry, but they don't expect a sense of humor. And the only thing that gets me through is a sense of humor.

  Martin Scorsese

  Thinking, People, Sense Of Humor

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• The next time you get nervous about others opinions, look them mentally in the eye and say, "What you think of me is none of my business."

  Terry Cole-Whittaker

  Eye, Thinking, Others Opinions

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• I was always nervous about coming back to Australia which was a complete hangover of the days when I left when ballet was not accepted, when I was not accepted, when I was considered a freak for wanting to be a ballet dancer. And, to be 100% honest, I rather dreaded coming back.

  Robert Helpmann

  Art, Hangover, Australia

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

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• It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous.

  Arsene Wenger

  Children, Confused, Ice Cream

  "Professor knocked down a grade by rocket scientist" by Russell Thomas, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2004.

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• The bigger the show, the better I'd play. It was what I was waiting for, and I'd never get nervous.

  Johnny Ramone

  Play, Waiting, Bigger

  FaceBook post by Johnny Ramone from Jul 15, 2015

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• Some friends of mine work in an office. They were getting really nervous from their coffee breaks, so they started to have wig breaks. They tried on wigs for 15 minutes. They found this relaxing. So that's Wig Therapy.

  Laurie Anderson

  Coffee, Office, Wigs

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• If it makes you nervous- you're doing it right.

  Donald Glover

  Ifs

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• A skater goes through a lot of different feelings during a competition. Staying calm is the key point. You feel a little anxious, a little nervous, a little unsettled. That's when you've got to trust your feelings, trust your abilities. Believe in what you have worked for so long to achieve. Have faith in yourself.

  Elvis Stojko

  Believe, Keys, Long

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• I think it's very natural to get nervous. I've usually got concerns about a specific thing in the opening which might worry me. I have to be relaxed and balanced emotionally and then I can concentrate on the moves during the game. Then things will be ok.

  Judit Polgar

  Success, Moving, Thinking

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• Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.

  Deepak Chopra

  Meditation, Coherence, Fields

  "Deepak Chopra on Your "Super Brain," Work Stress and Creativity". Interview with Judy Martin, www.forbes.com. December 20, 2012.

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• I was nervous. I mean, I'd met the Beatles, and Elvis, and everybody, but this was Salvador Dalí . This was like my history.

  Alice Cooper

  Mean, Mets

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• I'm definitely nervous and excited. I feel like I've been playing off-Broadway, not to say that Boston doesn't have a great theatre district or great theatre, but it's not going to Broadway; it's just a different city.

  Todd English

  Boston, Cities, Theatre

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• On True Blood — I've never told anybody this—but I was so nervous and I was so drunk that after I shot the scene I was going up to the crew members — and I had just met all these people the day before — and I was going up to all of them like, 'You got a boner! You do! You've got one!' It was horrible. Horrible!

  Lizzy Caplan

  Blood, People, Drunk

  "Lizzy Caplan on Chelsea Lately: I Got Naked and Drunk for True Blood Sex Scenes" by Zach Johnson, December 11, 2013.

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• The red carpet is really the only thing that makes me nervous.

  Julianna Margulies

  Red, Carpet, Red Carpet

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• The only thing I'm nervous about is talking to guests like human beings, because all of my interviews so far have been attacking people. I have a genuine concern about sitting across from an actor whose movies I obviously haven't seen.

  John Oliver

  Genuine Concern, Talking, People

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• I definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt kind of natural and inevitable and logical.

  Sean Astin

  Feelings, Kind, Logical

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• I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people.

  Robert Crumb

  Real, Drawing, People

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• I hated Hollywood. It’s a town without pity. Only success counts. I know of no other place in the world where so many people suffer from nervous breakdowns,  where there are so many alcoholics, neurotics and so much unhappiness.

  Grace Kelly

  People, Suffering, Towns

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• Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.

  Timothy Leary

  Keys, Drug, Mind

  Timothy Leary (1964). “The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead”

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• I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.

  Gary Cole

  Fans, Littles, Firsts

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• I do not give a damn what I look like, I don't. I wish I could pay attention because Gwen Stefani, say, looks flawless. Of course, when I'm on red carpets, I'm nervous, sweaty, and weird.

  Selena Gomez

  Giving, Wish, Looks

  "Selena Gomez: I’m Nervous, Sweaty & Weird On The Red Carpet" By Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2013.

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• The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Christian, Religious, Taken

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