Nervous Quotes - Page 37

• Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Order, Roots, Profound

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• Renegade scientists and totalitarian loonies are not the folks most likely to abuse genetic engineering. You and I are-not because we are bad but because we want to do good. In a world dominated by competition, parents understandably want to give their kids every advantage. ... The most likely way for eugenics to enter into our lives is through the front door as nervous parents ... will fall over one another to be first to give Junior a better set of genes.

  Arthur Caplan

  Fall, Kids, Eugenics

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• Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin.

  Caitlin Moran

  Two, Tea, Tin

  Caitlin Moran (2016). “Moranifesto”, p.343, Random House

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• Morgellons is constantly morphing. There are times when it's directly attacking the nervous system, as if you're being bitten by fleas and lice. It's all in the tissue and it's not a hallucination. It was eating me alive, sucking the juices out. I've been sick all my life.

  Joni Mitchell

  Sick, Juice, Tissues

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• I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal, I'm thinking about doing something illegal. So, whenever I'm around a cop, I get uncomfortable and nervous, worried that I'll say the wrong thing or look so guilty they'll arrest me anyway. Being completely out of my mind on drugs doesn't help the situation any.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, Drug, Police

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• I don't really get nervous, ever. I just have a good time.

  Logan Henderson

  Good Times, Having A Good Time

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• My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.

  Stephanie Perkins

  My Smile, Natural, States

  Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.49, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• The dog can only become what's in your bubble. The dog is imitating the energy that is in your bubble. You are the source, the feast of energy. If you feel anxious, the dog becomes anxious with you. If you become nervous, the dog wakes up nervous with you.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Energy, Wake Up

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• I realized that I could have been in galleries much sooner. I just needed to get past the fear of rejection. I still feel nervous when I approach a new gallery, although it has become more like a job now. The first step on this long road was getting past that initial fear.

  Mark Edward

  Jobs, Past, Long

  "Do The Things Other People Fear". markedwardadams.com. April 29, 2013.

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• Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.

  David Abram

  Ecosystems, Perception, Sensory

  David Abram (2010). “Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology”, p.134, Vintage

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• No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries for help and expressions of contentment and relationship-status updates with heart icons whole or broken, plans to meet up later, pleas, complaints, desires, pictures of babies dressed as bears or peppers for Halloween. No more reading and commenting on the lives of others, and in so doing, feeling slightly less alone in the room. No more avatars.

  Emily St. John Mandel

  Dream, Baby, Halloween

  Emily St. John Mandel (2014). “Station Eleven: A novel”, p.39, Vintage

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• I don't want to work with someone who's nervous, I want to work with someone who is fearless

  Susan Stroman

  Fearless, Want

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• Without discipline in spiritual pursuits, the central nervous system doesn't have a chance to adjust and grow with the increased demand. It would be like putting a high voltage into a small bulb—it is bound to explode.

  Sivananda Radha Saraswati

  Spiritual, Discipline, Would Be

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• If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.

  Frank Bruno

  Running, Thinking, People

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• I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as the musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they gather up with discerning ardor the purest elements of life, the most beautiful lines of matter, and the most harmonious voices of nature.... To try to find in real life such love as this, eternal and absolute, is the same thing as to seek on the public squares such a woman as Venus or to expect nightingales to sing the symphonies of Beethoven.

  Alfred de Musset

  Love, Beautiful, Real

  Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.46, tredition

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• I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Mean, Orchestra

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• We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before the face of God and on the edge of eternity. For we are made for eternity as certainly as we are made for time, and as responsible moral beings we must deal with both.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Wise, Long, Age

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.46, Fig

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• I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates.
  I'm the most nervous guy in the world.

  Uncle Kracker

  Guy, Chocolate, World

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• It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

  Henry Adams

  Love, Disease, Born

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• It makes people nervous for one to step out of one's role.

  Walker Percy

  People, Roles, Steps

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lancelot”, p.71, Open Road Media

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• Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion.... As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work.... The sound man needs work to keep him sound, but the nervous invalid has an even greater need of work to draw him out of his isolation, and to stop the miseries of doubt and self-scrutiny, to win back self-respect and the support of fellowship.

  Richard Clarke Cabot

  Winning, Men, Self

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• I still feel like a novice when it comes to classical theater, but I don't ever want to become comfortable with anything. The greatest creativity comes from being nervous and uncomfortable.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Creativity, Novices, Want

  "Jesse Tyler Ferguson On Shakespeare In The Park: ‘I Love The Challenge Of Starting A Play’". Interview with Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• I'm never nervous. Not in high school, not in college. That's just the way I am.

  Chauncey Billups

  School, College, Way

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• One of the most powerful aspects of drumming and the reason people have done it since the beginning of being human is that it changes people's consciousness. Through rhythmic repetition of ritual sounds, the body, the brain and the nervous system are energized and transformed. When a group of people play a rhythm for an extended period of time, their brain waves become entrained to the rhythm and they have a shared brain wave state. The longer the drumming goes on, the more powerful the entrainment becomes. It's really the oldest holy communion.

  Layne Redmond

  Powerful, Play, People

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• You must not refuse any additional cups of tea under the following circumstances: if it is hot; if it is cold; if you are tired; if anybody thinks that you might be tired; if you are nervous; if you are gay; before you go out; if you are out; if you have just returned home; if you feel like it; if you do not feel like it; if you have had no tea for some time; if you have just had a cup.

  George Mikes

  Home, Tired, Gay

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