Nerves Quotes - page 7

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. (Bernard DeVoto)

When magic through nerves and reason passes, imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed.

Dejan Stojanovic

I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.

Dana Plato

We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.

Dave Haywood

I think the nerves aspect is a bit of a joke. How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another, most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models too, it wouldn't be the end of the world.

Edie Campbell

Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel.

Fred Barnes

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

Gordon Gee

I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

Gary McCord

Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

Idina Menzel

I try not to set myself up as different or as a celebrity or special. I have a husband that can get on my nerves. I have kids that test my patience. I've got a cat I can't keep off the sofa. It's real. On a bad day, I'm reading 'Acts of Faith.'

Iyanla Vanzant

Being unprepared heightens nerves. (James Galway)

I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000.

Jennifer Tilly

I love getting dressed up for red carpet events and having my hair and makeup done professionally - that definitely helps with nerves of going down the red carpet.

Jessica Ennis

Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playing. I think.

Jimmy Connors

To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.

Johannes Peter Muller

He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions is not enough, since all nerves are sensitive to the same cause but react to the same cause in different ways.

Johannes Peter Muller

Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.

Johannes Peter Muller

I think it's healthy to be insecure, to have nerves.

Julia Sawalha

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

Kirby Larson

I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.

Laurence Fox

Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.' (Len Goodman)

Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.

Mike Nichols

I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.

Mordechai Vanunu

I suffer a lot with nerves and stage fright.

Sheridan Smith

When someone stays with you and they're not your guest, even when they are your guest they get on your nerves. When people visit for long periods of time, that just happens.

Sean Durkin

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