Nervousness Quotes - Page 3

• It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up on a play. I mean, any play, anywhere - on Broadway or the Bowery or in a church basement.

  Ben Brantley

  Mean, Play, Church

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• Work is a form of nervousness.

  Robert Benchley

  Form

  Robert Benchley (1951). “My ten years in a quandary and how they grew”

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• I've read that Steven Wright's style was born out of genuine nervousness.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Style, Born, Genuine

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• It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake.

  Joseph Pilates

  Lying, Tired, Poison

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• Because of his supernatural outlook, he could always work very calmly and effectively and finish things on time. This was a reflection of the reality of a harmonious and attractive blend of prayer and action. It clearly showed that the sensibilities of a contemplative soul in no way lead to agitation or nervousness.

  Salvador Bernal

  Prayer, Work, Reflection

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• Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart is threatening to fly from the body once and for all. Lovers have been known to have heart attacks. Lovers drink too much from nervousness and cannot perform. They eat too little and faint during their fervently wished consummation. They do not stroke the favoured cat and their face-paint comes loose. This is not all. Whatever you have set store by, your dress, your dinner, your poetry, will go wrong.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Cat, Heart, Dry Up

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.66, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.

  James Earl Jones

  Thinking, People, Laughing

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• When you worry, there is static coming through your mind radio. God's song is the song of calmness. Nervousness is the static; calmness is the voice of God speaking to you through the radio of your soul.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Song, Voice, Worry

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• Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and possibly everything that will happen. I think they survive in this particular world better than other people. In a time when people tear themselves to pieces with ambition and nervousness and covetousness, they are relaxed. All of our so-called successful men are sick men, with bad stomachs, and bad souls, but Mack and the boys are healthy and curiously clean. They can do what they want. They can satisfy their appetites without calling them something else.

  John Steinbeck

  Ambition, Successful, Boys

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• In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn't have any fear. I thought, "This is easy. This is what I've been waiting for". No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.

  George Foreman

  Boxing, Waiting, Firsts

  "Talk Asia" with Monita Rajpal, edition.cnn.com. April 26, 2013.

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• I do think non-linearly. So I think that comes off as nervousness or anxiety in a person.

  Michaela Watkins

  Thinking, Anxiety, Persons

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• I'm very into positive thinking. The minute I feel nervousness or anxiety or fear, I go, "No, no, that's not a thought that I need to have right now. Everything's great, everything's good, you're going to be fine."

  Jennifer Lopez

  Positive Thinking, Anxiety, Needs

  "Jennifer Lopez: The All-Star". Interview with Jane Fonda, www.glamour.com. October 31, 2011.

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• Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Finals, Desperation

  Pauline Kael (1996). “Raising Kane and Other Essays”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I feel as bad as I did the very first time.

  Pablo Casals

  Music, Careers, Firsts

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• For me there's insecurity when you're releasing an album because you spend all of this time working on that one thing and then once it's done, it's done. After you put it out there to the public you never know which songs are going to work or even if the album is going to work as a whole so there is a little bit of nervousness around predicting what the numbers will be and if it's going to be well-received.

  John Legend

  Song, Numbers, Insecurity

  A Drink With Interview, adrinkwith.com. April 14, 2015.

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• We were very nervous at the start, we didn't play our game at all.

  Claudio Ranieri

  Games, Play, Nervous

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• I think nervousness - a heightened sense of nerves and attention is a very healthy thing for a performer. It is an artificial environment that you are going into whether it's concert or recital, or stage. When I know something so well, I've done it so often, and you kind of walk out for Tuesday night's performance, or you feel like that, that makes me more nervous then being geared up. A little bit like race horses. In the same way that the horses are always difficult to get into that lineup, the worst time of my life is the 10 or 15 minutes before I go on stage.

  Thomas Hampson

  Horse, Thinking, Tuesday

  Source: bigthink.com

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• For order represents our fear and nervousness. We create ordered interiors as a protest over the passing of things, to define our mortal lives against the void of time.

  Gertrude Diamant

  Order, Void, Passing

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• Our phones do play to our natural nervousness about being vulnerable to each other, but that doesn't mean that we can't we can't pull ourselves together, and say - we need to talk to each because it's in conversation, the most human and humanizing thing that we do, that empathy is born, that intimacy is born, that relationship is born.

  Judy Woodruff

  Mean, Play, Phones

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I will talk about it on Monday. I will answer every one of their questions. I always feel nervous when I have to go to court. This is like going to court. But I will be prepared.

  Zulima Farber

  Monday, Answers, Nervous

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• My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.

  Josh Brolin

  Dad, Actors, Infancy

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.

  Mike Leigh

  Insecurity, Problem, Film

  Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

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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 can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.

  Anton Chekhov

  Stupid, Mistake, Age

  Letter to E. M. Savrova-Yust, February 28, 1895.

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• I don't feel like I ever really do get past the nervousness. I'm always nervous. Something about being nervous keeps you on the edge, and I've always felt like I worked better under pressure.

  Judith Hill

  Past, Pressure, Nervous

  Source: collider.com

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