Nervousness Quotes

• Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

  William James

  Heart, Errors, World

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.19, Courier Corporation

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

  Jessica Chastain

  Thinking, Feelings, Actors

  Interview with Michael Shannon, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2011.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Peace, Mind, Literature

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from May 15, 2010

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.

  Glenway Wescott

  Confused, Home, Human Nature

  16 Copy quote

• DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand.

  Barbara Sher

  Eye, Hands, Focus

  9 Copy quote

• Nervousness is caused by wanting two opposing things at the same time, one consciously and the other subconsciously. The battle is resolved when you make the subconscious desire conscious. On the other hand, if you know what you are, there will be no conflicts. You can do that through seeking. It is not necessary to understand the negative. It is far better to be positive. Be Your Self.

  Lester Levenson

  Self, Hands, Two

  10 Copy quote

• If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.

  Hale Irwin

  Sports, Should Have, Expectations

  7 Copy quote

• No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Purpose, Clown

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)”, p.164, Random House

  9 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.

  Jaden Smith

  Teenager, Kids, School

  "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.

  63 Copy quote

  Show source

• The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Fear, Worry, Anxiety

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.43, New World Library

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you are losing your peace in your quest for peace, you are not on the road to peace. The road to peace is peace.

  Alan Cohen

  Quests, Losing, Ifs

  10 Copy quote
• 

  Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

  John Muir

  Travel, Home, Tired

  "Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays".

  224 Copy quote

  Show source

• If not me- who?, If not now- when?

  Emma Watson

  Inspiring, Success, Business

  United Nations Address on Gender Equality, delivered 20 September 2014

  55 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.

  Paul Lynde

  Would Be, Half, Comedy

  7 Copy quote

• ..Fear is the energy to do your best in a new situation. The feeling of fear (anxiety, nervousness, shyness, or any of its other aliases) is really "preparation energy". It's getting you ready to excel, to succeed, to do your best and to learn the most.

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear, Anxiety, Feelings

  4 Copy quote

• Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Summer, Fall, Sadness

  28 Copy quote

• Coaches do get very nervous.

  Urban Meyer

  Nervous, Coaches

  18 Copy quote

• When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum...for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed, society is going to have to adhere scrupulously to the democratic principle of freedom of expression.

  Jeremy Griffith

  Expression, Insecurity, Enlightenment

  6 Copy quote

• We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send the signal that patriotism is mindless emotion, that leadership is avoiding saying tough things, that citizenship is toeing the line. But such is the result of a lack of openness, our nervousness with debate.

  Geneva Overholser

  Country, America, Suffering

  11 Copy quote

• I was never nervous. That's not me, ... Nervousness, scariness, that's not even in our vocabulary.

  Vince Young

  Vocabulary, Nervous

  4 Copy quote

• The whole secret of era is to specific no nervousness. Never nervousness what fortitude become of you, depend on no one. Free the twinkling you annul all help are you unrestricting.

  Gautama Buddha

  Secret, Eras, Helping

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Anxiety

  Source: www.glamour.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the Latino community, the Trump campaign, even when it seemed it was a long shot he would be elected president, his campaign itself just caused lots of consternation and nervousness and anger. Famously, piñata makers started making piñatas of Donald Trump, even before he won the Republican nomination. There was this sense that, here's a person who's rising in the polls because he's insulting us, because he's created this scapegoated image of us as the people responsible for the decline of the United States.

  Hector Tobar

  Long, People, Community

  Source: www.slate.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think people are much more concerned about money now. There aren't the big advances of the past. You feel the sense of nervousness about the book industry. It's not like before. Not that I knew very much about what it was like because I was a newcomer to it, but I get that feeling that people are more conservative in their book choices and what they are going to publish and what's a sure sell. As opposed to - just like in the economy - a sense of luxury and sense of risk taking ten years ago.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Thinking, Past

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I put out my hand to shake hands with Zero Mostel, and he took my hand [and] he pulled me up to his face, and he gave me a kiss on the lips. And all my nervousness went out the window.

  Gene Wilder

  Zero, Kissing, Hands

  Source: keranews.org

  6 Copy quote

  Show source