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If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention.
Miles Davis
If you're not on edge then you're not paying heed.
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My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know, and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such beings.
Aleister Crowley
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When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.
John von Neumann
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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
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Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.
Galen
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Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially
Veronica Roth
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Anyone who sets foot into the Watchmen universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered Watchmen to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
J. Michael Straczynski
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It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.
Shirley Hazzard
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There is something about fashion that can make people really nervous.
Anna Wintour
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The best advertising should make you nervous about what you're not buying.
Mary Wells Lawrence
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I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.
Jensen Ackles
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Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).
Georges Bataille
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Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.
Wilhelm Wundt
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Being nervous isn't bad. It just means something important is happening.
Michael Jordan
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In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
Carl Rogers
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One time I was hanging out with a girl and I wanted to kiss her. I was too nervous to do it, so I wrote ‘Can I kiss you?’ on a Post-It and handed it to her. And it worked!
Dave Franco
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In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.
Al Alvarez
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
George Orwell
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If you aren't nervous about your passion, you aren't passionate about it.
Bobby Flay
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Be very nervous of the shaky hands.
Ja Rule
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The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how.
Michael Gazzaniga
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Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond?
Lisi Harrison
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It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.
Eric Kandel
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If I'm with a group of people, I'm okay, but actually I'm quite a nervous person if I'm just one-to-one with somebody.
Jenna Coleman
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I danced frightening things. They were frightened of me and therefore thought that I wanted to kill them. I did not want to kill anyone. I loved everyone, but no one loved me, and therefore I became nervous.
Vaslav Nijinsky
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The more prepared I am, the more I'll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focused.
Marilu Henner
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Tense and nervous are not the words, though they are the words
Chris Kamara
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Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.
John C. Reilly
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I just don't feel that we've traveled very far in the realm of social equality. There just seems to be a little bit of unrest. And sometimes I think that happens when you really feel like something's about to change. Right before the moment of lift off, sometimes things feel a little bit unhinged, and that's what it feels like to me right now, both as a woman and just as a human on the planet as an American woman in America. I feel like we're on the precipice of change. I feel a little nervous.
Sarah Paulson
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I still get nervous when I have a lot of makeup on, a big hairdo, and a dress.
Jenna Fischer
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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
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I come from the bush ... where men are men, and the sheep are nervous.
Tommy Emmanuel
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I've never been nervous. I just wanted to play and have a good time. If it didn't work, then I would get nervous. But, for the most part, I just go for it.
Kevin Clash
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The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.
John Holmes
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You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.
Louise Fitzhugh
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I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.
Bernhard Langer
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I don't get stage fright. I do get nervous before I play in front of big audiences [though].
Jack Barakat
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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
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When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.
Bruce Forsyth
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The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.
Georg Simmel
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Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.
David Abram
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I'm nervous... but I'm not going to fear what I'm about to do, I'm going to take it head on and I'm going to conquer it.
Rory MacDonald
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Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure.
Maxwell Maltz