Nervous Quotes - Page 6

• If I do get nervous for a game, they usually go away after the first play. For the Super Bowl, it never went away.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Games, Play, Going Away

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• Even when I'm nervous, I think I'm able to turn that nervous energy into strength.

  Jimmy Rollins

  Thinking, Energy, Able

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• All of my friends went to college and I got a job at Circle Pizza, where I worked for 24 hours. I had to call my mother four times to ask her how to spell Parmesan. I'm not kidding. I was a terrible speller. I think I was really nervous that I somehow didn't feel right out in the world in that way.

  Sarah Paulson

  Mother, Jobs, College

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you're a first time director, you're often considered what's called a "deadly attachment" in the eyes of financiers, because they're trusting you with a lot of money to bring something home, to get great performances, to not have a nervous breakdown in the process.

  John Krokidas

  Eye, Home, Attachment

  Source: collider.com

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• Do I suffer for my art? Well, I get a lot of flatulence when I'm nervous.

  Martin Clunes

  Art, Suffering, Flatulence

  "Martin Clunes: 'Do I suffer for my art? Well, I get a lot of flatulence when I'm nervous'". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2009.

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• There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.

  Terence McKenna

  Mind, Trying, Ontology

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• You think about people like Hank Williams, who stood on that spot of wood, and Mr. Acuff, and, of course, George Jones. And just about anybody you can think of who has made country music has been on that stage. That's what makes you so nervous - to think about the historical part of the Opry and how it's played such a part in country music.

  Alan Jackson

  Country, Thinking, People

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• Everyone asks me if piano had helped me in football. I guess improvisation and creativity helps on the field, but that's a reach. The two skills are just so different. And, by the way, I get more nervous playing piano.

  Joey Harrington

  Football, Creativity, Skills

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• As soon as you see 'Dame' in front of someone's name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie Smith is the most wonderfully gentle woman I have ever met. She never had a bad word to say.

  Tom Felton

  Names, Dames, Maggie

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• When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.

  Sally Phillips

  Comfort, Ifs, Only Time

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• I get nervous when I don't get nervous.

  Beyonce Knowles

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• Ideally you do want people to treat you professionally in return, but not everyone necessarily does that. This acting job - it pays very well and you get to live a wonderful lifestyle, but it's something that I love doing, so I want to work with other people who enjoy it as well ... Maybe if I met the Queen I'd be nervous, though I'd probably be more nervous about doing things the right way because it's a very formal occasion.

  Henry Cavill

  Jobs, Queens, People

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Physicians, Nerves, Matter

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.396, Penguin

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• I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Independence, Delight, Restless

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.276, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Writing is a bit like walking into a big bookstore. It's the bookstore of your brain, and you know you're never going to read all those books. It makes you happy you're in the bookstore, and you're nervous because you know you're never going to read all those books. So the nervousness is also happy. Once I get going writing poetry is one of the happiest things I do, but it is also fraught with all of these anxieties.

  Mary Jo Salter

  Book, Writing, Anxiety

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• I would be very nervous to rap I think if it ever comes to that! I'm going to try to steer clear as long as possible.

  Jacob Artist

  Rap, Thinking, Long

  Source: glee-fan.blogspot.com

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• I get nervous the more time I have to think about something so I deliberately don't give myself too much time between jobs. I take a big break and then I start working again usually.

  Meryl Streep

  Jobs, Thinking, Giving

  Source: the-talks.com

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• You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.

  Meryl Streep

  Way, Conferences, Presses

  Source: the-talks.com

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• I get nervous about press and about being rejected or disappointing myself.

  Courtney Love

  Disappointing, Rejected, Presses

  Interview with Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.

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• Children are very overprotected now, in lots of ways. We're very nervous about them. You know, people go, "Don't go outside! Or inside! Get into the cupboard with some spinach!" When I was a child they'd kick you out and you weren't expected to come back until there were bats!

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Children, Humor

  "Dylan Moran: What It Is". Video, 2009.

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• I'm not a racist. It's really case by case; it's not ethnicity specific. It's just the way I react to things that are different. I think that's normal. Everyone's nervous when they're confronted with things that they don't understand or are different. That's a normal human reaction. It doesn't become racist 'til you say things like, 'Oh, there's a lot of them.'

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• You can also hurt a dog if it's insecure, if a dog is nervous and then you try to pet him, you can make him more nervous. It's not just the aggressive dogs that you can get hurt. It's also the dogs that you can actually hurt. It works both ways.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Hurt, Insecure

  Interview with David Morris, www.askmen.com. February 27, 2015.

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• Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws.

  Mario Bunge

  Law, Free Yourself, Courses

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• I am definitely a little more nervous for my colleagues when I'm working at mission control than I am myself, on the shuttle.

  Julie Payette

  Littles, Missions, Colleagues

  "Julie Payette returns to space". Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. February 4, 2009.

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• I loved the city, so the feeling in 2001 [election] first was shock, then (I was) nervous, then scared but then it's - I really wasn't happy and ecstatic like I thought I (would be). I was immediately hit with the enormity of the responsibility and the fact that most people in that town - particularly those that voted for me were placing their hopes and dreams in me. That is a big, big stressful place to be.

  Kwame Kilpatrick

  Dream, Responsibility, Cities

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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