Nervous Quotes

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Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to… — Gregory Maguire
I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games. — Shaquille O'Neal
The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor. — Lauren Hutton
The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them… — Max Lucado
To overcome negative emotions, consulting intuition is always useful. How can it guide you. During nervous periods, it offers a more centered alternative to agitation.… — Judith Orloff
I like ties but I prefer not to wear one when I'm nervous. — Jamie Oliver
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
Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous… — Lara Flynn Boyle
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… — Norbert Wiener
I always get nervous when people start talking about legacies. — William J. Clinton
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual. — Thomas de Quincey
Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too. — Scott McNealy
The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere… — Marshall McLuhan
A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. — Ambrose Bierce
It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular biology have either been solved or will be solved in the next… — Sydney Brenner
Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of… — William Stanley Jevons
A meditator cannot smoke, for the simple reason that he never feels nervous, in anxiety, in tension. Smoking helps - on a momentary basis -… — Rajneesh
There is something about fashion that can make people really nervous. — Anna Wintour
Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions. — Bill Gates
On the paparazzi: If I have my daughter in the car and they are making me nervous, I'll do whatever I have to do. I… — Gwyneth Paltrow
Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence of the environment,… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
When I look at my fellow competitors, I say to myself, 'I many be nervous, but you are definetly nervous as well.' — Unknown Author
Nervous exhaustion from mental overwork is most often due to neglect of this rule and the brain worker should limit his regular day's work to… — Unknown Author
Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better to think of… — Tim Birkhead
The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how. — Michael Gazzaniga

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