Nerves Quotes - Page 27

• I gave to pink, the nerve of the red, a neon pink, an unreal pink.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Neon, Red, Unreal

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• What happened was, I always wanted to be a singer/songwriter kind of guy like a James Taylor or Crosby, Stills and Nash type of thing; I went to a lot of coffee houses and used to watch all those guys, but I never had the nerve to get up and do it because singing seems so personal and intimate to me. It was too revealing.

  Kevin Nealon

  Coffee, Guy, House

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• It often is a terrible insult to some families if one of the kids turns out to be an artist and that's one way to really shake up the family if you haven't got nerve enough to turn into a homosexual.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Kids, Artist, Often Is

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• It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. He had tried to do all the things his MAN and his WOMAN, and most of all his BOY, had asked or expected of him. He would have died for them, if that had been required. He had never wanted to kill anybody. He had been struck by something, possibly destiny, or fate, or only a degenerative nerve disease called rabies. Free will was not a factor.

  Stephen King

  Dog, Fate, Boys

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• Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve to hear Mother's words.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Fine, Heard

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• I'm fascinated by mankind. I grew up watching 'Candid Camera' and thought it was funnier than any standup, any joke, anything that could possibly be written because you're dealing with humanity. And people can relate to that. It touches everybody who sees it. It hits a nerve.

  Howie Mandel

  Candid Camera, People, Humanity

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• At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Self, Risk, Core

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• Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus.

  Peter McWilliams

  Perseverance, Persistence, Bravery

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Phrenology is the study of the brain or how it operates, you know, the particular components that effect the nerves and the thought process, and the study of the size of the head. We just wanted to tie it into subject matters.

  Black Thought

  Ties, Brain, Phrenology

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• Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what goes into a day's work out in the world, a very nerve-racking affair.

  Bette Davis

  Home, Thinking, Work Out

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• Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.

  Michael Caine

  Jobs, Hands, Wings

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• Too many people believe that one big, public success will solve their self-confidence problems forever. That only happens in the movies. In real life, the opposite strategy is what works. Call it the small victo-ries approach. In time you will discover that all failing really does teach you something you needed to know- so you can regroup and stretch again, with ever more...nerve.

  Jack Welch

  Real, Believe, Self Confidence

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• You should always view any job as just as nerve-wracking or just as exciting as any other.

  Giles Matthey

  Jobs, Views, Should

  Source: collider.com

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• Stop asking for directions so much. Assuming that you're in a safe environment, pay attention and figure things out for yourself. Have the nerve to take a wrong turn now and then. You'll develop better working instincts and have more self-esteem too.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Self Esteem, Safe Environment, Pay

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• Once the fifth set comes, it's a matter of nerves.

  Pete Sampras

  Matter, Fifth

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• As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than it is to let them grow up into young thugs who have to be sent to prison, not to mention the savings in the wear and tear on the nerves, property, and safety of the rest of the citizenry.

  Molly Ivins

  Growing Up, School, Kids

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• I try not to set myself up as different or as a celebrity or special. I have a husband that can get on my nerves. I have kids that test my patience. I've got a cat I can't keep off the sofa. It's real. On a bad day, I'm reading 'Acts of Faith.'.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Husband, Real, Reading

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• With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.

  Aaron Ashmore

  Expectations, Trying, Legs

  "Aaron Ashmore Exclusive Interview WAREHOUSE 13". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 6, 2011.

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• My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Iron, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2090, Manonmani Publishers

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• If you're not mentally tough,
  If nerves undo you instead of focus you,
  If you don't have the inner arrogance
  That you absolutely have what it takes to win,
  If you don't see, in your mind's eye,
  A picture of yourself winning - then you won't win;
  And not because you can't.

  Summer Sanders

  Eye, Winning, Focus

  Summer Sanders (1999). “Champions are Raised, Not Born: How My Parents Made Me a Success”

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• Failure isn't a problem. It's the fear of failure that's the limiting factor. You can't lose your nerve for the big failure, because it's the exact same nerve you need for the big success.

  Regina E. Dugan

  Needs, Problem, Fear Of Failure

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• There are a lot of signs. One of the things that makes me most nervous is the disappearance of the frogs. They're going downhill all over the planet. Frogs are susceptible to all kinds of problems, because they require water to breed and their skin is very porous. Their condition is nerve racking.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Water, Skins, Frogs

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.

  Terry McMillan

  Letters, Innocent, Used

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Alcohol is perfect for me to curb the nerves a little bit.

  Luke Bryan

  Perfect, Alcohol, Littles

  "Luke Bryan, Dierks Bentley on Playing 'Head Bartenders' at the ACM Awards". Interview with Doug Fisher, www.rollingstone.com. March 21, 2016.

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• That's a lovely experience when you make an audience laugh. Then the nerves go away for a bit. And sometimes you do things then that you've never done before that are really funny.

  John Cleese

  Laughing, Lovely, Going Away

  Interview with David Morgan, www.cbsnews.com. October 25, 2015.

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