Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Swami Vivekananda

That's the way I like it because there's no time to have nerves about it. You just run out and do it.
Doug Flutie

The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.
Henry Cotton

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.
Ty Cobb

The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves.
Wynton Marsalis

The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
Jack Valenti

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
Stephen Rea

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.
Doris Humphrey

To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Harry Vardon

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 P. Muller

Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.
Mel Gibson

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?
Russell Hoban

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.
Paul Theroux

You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.
Eliot Ness