Nervous Quotes - Page 40

• To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.

  Johannes Peter Muller

  Expression, Light, Electric Current

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• We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light.

  Johannes Peter Muller

  Opportunity, Space, Light

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• ...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the pain behavior of humans. A capacity to feel pain obviously enhances a species' prospects of survival...it is surely unreasonable to suppose that nervous systems that are virtually identical physiologically, have a common origin and a common evolutionary function, and result in similar forms of behavior in similar circumstances should actually operate in an entirely different manner on the level of subjective feelings.

  Peter Singer

  Pain, Animal, Feelings

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• Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress the similarities between humans and other animals in order to claim that their experiments may have some relevance for human purposes. The experimenter who forces rats to choose between starvation and electric shock to see if they develop ulcers (which they do) does so because the rat has a nervous system very similar to a human being's, and presumably feels an electric shock in a similar way.

  Peter Singer

  Stress, Animal, Order

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• People who say they're not nervous - I would be kind of curious to see how successful you are at what you do and how long you've done it. And what is success in your eyes? Have you separated yourself from everyone else in that craft? Or have you settled amongst the pack?

  Randy Johnson

  Eye, Successful, Long

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• Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.

  Randy Johnson

  Games, Bird, Relax

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• Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.

  Marian Keyes

  Annoying, Middle, Breakdown

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• I have to admit that I was a little nervous when I showed up for my first official 'Wreck-It Ralph' recording session.

  Jane Lynch

  Wrecks, Littles, Firsts

  "Jane Lynch on How She Almost Wreck-It Ralph -ed Her Career". Interview with Jim Hill, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2012.

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• I don't get the jitters and I don't get nervous, because I build that comfort on set for myself. Sometimes if I'm gonna do something really crazy, it helps me to yell or look like an idiot on set, so that when I'm about to do a scene, I've already embarrassed myself. I find ways to work around getting the jitters.

  Logan Lerman

  Crazy, Looks, Jitters

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• People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

  Laura Marling

  Thinking, People, Way

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

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• I very rarely get nervous as an actor. Very rarely.

  Corin Nemec

  Actors

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

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• Of course you're nervous going into a final.

  Li Na

  Finals, Courses

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• I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.

  Sam Neill

  Jobs, Next, Knows

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• In the very beginning whenever Mia Hamm or Brandi Chastain would call for the ball, I'd just give it to them immediately because it was them and I was nervous.

  Heather O'Reilly

  Giving, Balls, Mia

  "Exclusive Interview with Sky Blue FC Midfielder Heather O'Reilly". Interview with Lauren Green, bleacherreport.com.

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• I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test.

  Mary-Kate Olsen

  School, Tests, I Can

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think I've always been fine on stage - though I get nervous beforehand. But once I'm on stage, all of that goes out of the window.

  Rita Ora

  Thinking, Window, Stage

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

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• [I] could see how nervous everybody was in the beginning and how silent it was when we had trouble with the artificial heart [during the surgery, but later in the operation, when it was working, there were moments] of loud and raucous humor.

  William DeVries

  Heart, Science, Trouble

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• A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations, a state in which sentiment, idea, and will are confounded together, where for the lack of the powerful corrective of logic, the flights of imagination know no bounds, where life and human activity are deprived of a regulator, and move outside of material and concrete factors, by the sole interior force of the soul.

  Kadmi Cohen

  Powerful, Moving, Passion

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• Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck.

  Diana Lopez

  Mother, Children, Wrecks

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• I love my nose! I was so nervous when I got pregnant that I was going to get that weird nose spread that you sometimes see pregnant ladies get.

  Busy Philipps

  Noses, Sometimes, Spread

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

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• Traveling is irritating to me, but not driving. Going to the airport makes me nervous, but when I set out to just take a leisurely drive, it's blue skies and puffy clouds and time.

  Edward Ruscha

  Clouds, Airports, Blue

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• I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Environmental Factors, People

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

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• I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.

  Devon Sawa

  Fidgeting, Get Real, Shows

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

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• You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc., and the perpetual strain of invention.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Book, Writing

  Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

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• I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He's very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired.

  Yvonne Strahovski

  Sweet, Kids, Keys

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