Nerves Quotes

• Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick.

  Steve Bull

  Butterfly, Worry, Tricks

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• If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine.

  Debi Thomas

  Teaching, Learning, Athlete

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• Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding

  E. M. Forster

  Knowledge, Science, Long

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.299, Xist Publishing

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• To control your nerves, you must have a positive thought in your mind.

  Byron Nelson

  Mind, Positive Thoughts

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• Happiness means quiet nerves.

  W. C. Fields

  Mean, Quiet

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• My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

  John Bonham

  Ukulele, Gigs, Fine

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• Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Worry, Anxiety

  Charles Dickens (1845). “The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year in”, p.114

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• Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.

  W. C. Fields

  Scotch, Bartending, Whiskey

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• The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

  Sam Ewing

  Government, Differences, Deficit

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• I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.

  Dana Plato

  Thinking, Play, People

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

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• The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.

  Stephen Rea

  Actors, Directors, Worst

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• It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5019, Delphi Classics

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• When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.49, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.

  Doris Humphrey

  Philosophy, Unique, Medicine

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• Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Farewell, People, Competition

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• Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

  Alan Alda

  Motivational, Smile, Laughter

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• When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?.

  Russell Hoban

  Men, Worry, Suffering

  The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz Ch. 13

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• I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.

  Lauren Bacall

  Looks, Way, Look Up

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• I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve

  Alan Ladd

  Stars, Thinking, Hell

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• Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Moving, Omnipotence

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon “Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 12: 1866”, Lulu.com

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• If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

  Rudyard Kipling

  Motivational, Heart, Long

  Rudyard Kipling (2012). “Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

  e. e. cummings

  Philosophy, Medicine, Body

  'Sonnets-Actualities' no. 8 (1925)

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• Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.

  Mike Nichols

  Ease, Energy, Worried

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• I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

  Jane Austen

  Mrs Bennet, Old Friends, Prejudice

  "Pride and Prejudice".

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• After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

  Emily Dickinson

  Pain, Feelings, Literature

  'After great pain, a formal feeling comes' (1862)

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