Nervous Quotes · Page 67

Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or…

— Wilhelm Wundt

Develop serenity and quiet attitudes through your conversation. Depending upon the words we use and the tone in which we use them,…

— Norman Vincent Peale

The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father.…

— Robert Carlyle

I wanted to do standup, but I was too nervous. I felt it was too vulnerable basically to be yourself on stage.

— Lolly Adefope

[The dancing] was a challenge. It was fun, though. I was nervous, at first, because I danced so long ago that it…

— Evan Rachel Wood

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time,…

— Jacques Derrida

I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love…

— Ryan Adams

I am always nervous about doing voice-over work. I'm always clammy and I worry, "What if my voice squeaks? What if I…

— Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day- to- day take on things. The bare facts of life…

— Alain de Botton

The more nervous I am, and the more insane a situation is, the more I love it and get addicted to it.…

— Alison Mosshart

Even though I'm a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make…

— Bono

I was nervous and confident at the same, nervous about going out there in front of all those people, with so much…

— Althea Gibson

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

— Mark Twain

Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In…

— E. M. Forster

I'm tugging at my hair. I'm pulling at my clothes. I'm trying to keep my cool, I know it shows. I'm staring…

— Avril Lavigne

The always-connected culture isn't as much a contributor as Grace might think. The nervous mind, the monkey mind, will create its own…

— Russell Simmons

I used to be nervous about not working and so would work for the sake of it.

— Dervla Kirwan

I definitely have been nervous, but often I get more nervous performing with the corps de ballet than doing a solo. There's…

— Francesca Hayward

I was never nervous directing. Not once. I'm more nervous acting. I'm far more nervous on set, before I say my lines,…

— Rose McGowan

I did [Michael Cimino] first movie, "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot," and I remember I was still in my twenties and very nervous, we're…

— Jeff Bridges

Before most events, I dry-heave or throw up, because I'm so nervous. It's not enjoyable.

— Mat Fraser

I guess I'm just very shy and nervous about putting myself on the line.

— Randy Meisner

I do this weird thing in studios where I climb stuff when I get nervous.

— Charli XCX

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

— Carly Simon