Nervous Quotes

If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention.

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.

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

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

If it makes you nervous- you're doing it right.

Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.

I have to learn from Sehwag how to play in the nervous 90's

Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially

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.

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.

There is something about fashion that can make people really nervous.

The best advertising should make you nervous about what you're not buying.

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.

Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).

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.

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!

Being nervous isn't bad. It just means something important is happening.

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.

Whenever I feel nervous, I feel like I have to poop.

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.

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.

If you aren't nervous about your passion, you aren't passionate about it.

The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how.

Be very nervous of the shaky hands.

The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.

You can tell how nervous I am by how fast I am talking!

Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond?

Coaches do get very nervous.

It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.

I still get nervous when I have a lot of makeup on, a big hairdo, and a dress.

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.

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.

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.

The more prepared I am, the more I'll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focused.

Tense and nervous are not the words, though they are the words

Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.

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.

The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.

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.

I come from the bush ... where men are men, and the sheep are nervous.

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.

I think I'm nervous to sign on to any job.

I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.

I don't get stage fright. I do get nervous before I play in front of big audiences [though].

When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.

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.

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

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

I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive.

We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first.