Nervous Quotes

I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.

I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.

There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

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

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!

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.

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

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

People get nervous driving around corners, thinking they're going to tip over. But you can go soooo much faster through the curves than you realize.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.

Be very nervous of the shaky hands.

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

It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous.

A nervous breakdown waits around the corner for anyone who lets himself wallow in bitterness. Little by little, it takes over your whole being.

You know people exaggerate that all is wild in Jamaica. I think that sometimes people fire a shot to try to make you nervous. They are not trying to hurt you.

I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might approach the mystery of the mind.

I’m just a real loner kind of person, and yeah, kinda dark. But I’m happy. Not sad. I’m just shy and nervous.

When I walk into a screening, I'm nervous in a different way than I am as an actor. But the response is ultimately I know how I feel about it and that's what matters to me the most.

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?

I'm never too nervous about releasing music. I like to see what the people think because it helps me make myself better as an artist for them.

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

Coaches do get very nervous.

The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of freeze response.

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.

don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous.

White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.

The next time you get nervous about others opinions, look them mentally in the eye and say, "What you think of me is none of my business."

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.

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

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

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

I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

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

When you stop being nervous is when you should retire. I'm always a little nervous for anything I do because when complacency sets in, that's when I feel it's time to move on to something else.

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'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.

Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.

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

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