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Nervous Quote

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
Alexander Hamilton

Person, Same, Makes

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
John F. Kennedy

Politics, Women, Talk

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.
Marilyn Monroe

Gay, Human, Humanity

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
Timothy Leary

Life, Today, Game

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell

Work, Important, Belief

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
Carl Rogers

Experience, Person, Through

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
Elizabeth Taylor

Everything, Makes, Making

I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.
Christopher Hitchens

Sometimes, Sense, Makes

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

Game, Baseball, Simply

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.
Deepak Chopra

Single, Reality, System

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
Havelock Ellis

Doubt, Sometimes, Means

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
E. M. Forster

Freedom, Past, Enough

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.
Charles Stanley

God, Morning, Sunday

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
Ingrid Newkirk

Pain, Dog, System

I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.
Catherine Deneuve

Bored, Irritated, Tense

Pressure is calming to the nervous system.
Temple Grandin

System, Pressure, Calming

Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious.
Deepak Chopra

Fact, System, Thinks

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.
Chris Rock

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
Paul Cezanne

Work, System, Sustain

I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.
Steven Spielberg

Work, Time, Dad

I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.
Adele

Fear, Help, Words

I think Hannah gets nervous just like any other person would. She's like a dork, personally. She's just really, really fun.
Miley Cyrus

Fun, Person, She

Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
Vivien Leigh

Single, Night, Audience

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
Marquis de Sade

Life, Strength, Revenge

I'm nervous whenever I perform.
Adele

Whenever, Perform

I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.
Elvis Presley

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.
Alfred Korzybski

God, May, Forgive

What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I'm far too nervous, too high strung to sit around. It's not my thing; I can't deal with it!
Jonathan Davis

Crazy, Around, Far

I'm always very nervous about the word 'dancer' next to my name because anyone who's really trained in dance will go, 'This guy's fudging so badly.'
Hugh Jackman

Dance, Word, Anyone

So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect.
Shia LaBeouf

Work, Time, Respect

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