Nervousness Quotes - Page 2

• The problem is that what Donald Trump said, if you take it literally now, is cause for anxiety and nervousness.

  Mark Shields

  Anxiety, Causes, Problem

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Many mothers are wholly ignorant of the almost universal prevalence of secret vice, or self-abuse among the young. Why hesitate to say firmly and without quibble that personal abuse lies at the root of much of the feebleness, paleness, nervousness and good-for-nothingness of the entire community?

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Mother, Lying, Roots

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• When I do a film, the days before or the night before, I throw up. Sometimes it's just in my mouth and I swallow it back, but sometimes it's real. Whatever it is, it's hard. I don't do the first five or ten minutes of my character's appearance in a movie until the middle of the shooting schedule because I don't want him to be defined by my nervousness. So, we do the middle of the picture first.

  Donald Sutherland

  Real, Character, Night

  "Donald Sutherland on 'Forsaken', Working with His Son for the First Time, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 21, 2016.

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• I'll play for a couple of hours and then before you know it, it's time to go on stage. It takes away any nervousness and anxiety I might have about the big crowd out there.

  Lights

  Couple, Play, Anxiety

  Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. November 11, 2009.

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• I think even probably the people we look up to the most, and think are on the Mount Olympus of actors - they're still experiencing nervousness.

  Zoe Kazan

  Thinking, People, Look Up

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Acting's all about the confidence you exude, especially on film. I mean, nervousness isn't attractive in anyone, but a film camera will seek it out and punish you.

  John C. Reilly

  Mean, Acting, Cameras

  "Life of Reilly" by Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2004.

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• What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness.

  George D. Prentice

  Loss, Names, Weight

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• My first experience of that was with my first movie which I did in India. And it was so different from other people. I find that "Oh my God." Every time the music is slow I feel that people are going to get up and go out. You get this nervousness. But, to my surprise, people starting singing the song even before it came in. They started singing along a week later, after release, which was very cool.

  A. R. Rahman

  Song, People, Singing

  Source: collider.com

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• I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated than anything Id attempted before, and that maybe my talent just wasnt up to it and the book would have to be abandoned, or would turn out not to work at all when it was finished.

  Jonathan Coe

  Book, Talent, Complicated

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• Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident.

  Raphael Soyer

  Kind, Certain, Brushes

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• It's perhaps not so much how your amygdala is tuned that makes you politically extreme, but that your intrinsic nervousness makes you more responsive to things that might seem to threaten your particular social world. Education probably plays an important role in dampening that response by allowing the brain's frontal lobes (where much of the brain's conscious work goes on) to counteract the emotional responses with a more considered view, so explaining why education is invariably the friend of liberal politics.

  Robin Dunbar

  Emotional, Views, Play

  Robin Dunbar (2011). “How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks”, p.170, Harvard University Press

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• Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Heal Itself, Giving, Fasting

  Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.40, Charisma Media

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• Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Confusion, Anxiety, Feelings

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.58, Penguin

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• Fear is a state of nervousness only fit for children

  RZA

  Children, Fit, States

  The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.34, Penguin

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• Its fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Fun, Practice, Play

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• You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.

  Stephen King

  Girl, Eye, Writing

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• A meditator cannot smoke, for the simple reason that he never feels nervous, in anxiety, in tension. Smoking helps - on a momentary basis - to forget about your anxieties, your tensions, your nervousness. Other things can do the same - chewing gum can do the same, but smoking does it the best. In your deep unconscious, smoking is related with sucking milk from your mother's breast. And as civilization has grown, no woman wants the child to be brought up by breast-feeding - naturally; he will destroy the breast. The breast will lose its roundness, its beauty.

  Rajneesh

  Mother, Children, Simple

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• In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard to believe because, until you get good at it, knitting seems to cause those ailments. The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Believe, Eye, Knitting

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.51, Storey Publishing

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• IN MY NERVOUSNESS FOR THIS SPEECH AND MY MOMENTS OF DOUBT, I'VE TOLD MYSELF FIRMLY, 'IF NOT ME, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN?'

  Emma Watson

  Work, Women, Advice

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• The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest. Each of us had a first sentence, and most of us found the strength to say it out loud to someone who deserved to hear it. What we hoped, and what we found, was that the second sentence of the truth is always easier than the first, and the third sentence is even easier than that. Suddenly you are speaking the truth in paragraphs, in pages. The fear, the nervousness, is still there, but it is joined by a new confidence. All along, you've used the first sentence as a lock. But now you find that it's the key.

  David Levithan

  Keys, Locks, Pages

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.34, Egmont UK

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• I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.

  John Green

  Loneliness, Waiting, Want

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.295, A&C Black

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• You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Despair, Way

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart is threatening to fly from the body once and for all. Lovers have been known to have heart attacks. Lovers drink too much from nervousness and cannot perform. They eat too little and faint during their fervently wished consummation. They do not stroke the favoured cat and their face-paint comes loose. This is not all. Whatever you have set store by, your dress, your dinner, your poetry, will go wrong.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Cat, Heart, Dry Up

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.66, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Because of his supernatural outlook, he could always work very calmly and effectively and finish things on time. This was a reflection of the reality of a harmonious and attractive blend of prayer and action. It clearly showed that the sensibilities of a contemplative soul in no way lead to agitation or nervousness.

  Salvador Bernal

  Prayer, Work, Reflection

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• Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and possibly everything that will happen. I think they survive in this particular world better than other people. In a time when people tear themselves to pieces with ambition and nervousness and covetousness, they are relaxed. All of our so-called successful men are sick men, with bad stomachs, and bad souls, but Mack and the boys are healthy and curiously clean. They can do what they want. They can satisfy their appetites without calling them something else.

  John Steinbeck

  Ambition, Successful, Boys

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