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Quotes About Nervousness

If you aren't nervous about your passion, you aren't passionate about it.
~ Bobby Flay
Marsha was a beautiful woman with an oval face that sometimes looked sad-sack, and a nervous upward glance as if making sure the black cloud was in place. That was a physical thing, of course, no more a true reflection on her personality than being short or scarred.
~ Harlan Coben
I was very green when I started in WWE and felt very uncomfortable with talking.
~ Gail Kim
I really don't get nervous when I perform -it's more of an exciting feeling than anything else. But put me in a classroom with kids my age and have me take a test and yeah, I'll be nervous!
~ Alexa Vega
Yeah, I kinda still get nervous sometimes now.
~ Kenny Hickey
I always get scared of traffic cops when I'm driving, like I freak out even when I'm not doing anything wrong. I still think they're going to pull me over and arrest me.
~ Leelee Sobieski
The less I felt in myself, the more strongly I was drawn to those places where the whirligig of life spins most rapidly. If you are experiencing nothing yourself, the passionate restlessness of others stimulates the nervous system like music or drama.
~ Stefan Zweig
In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard to believe because, until you get good at it, knitting seems to cause those ailments. The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice .
~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Nervousness always provokes mistakes, and mistakes lead to easy convictions.
~ S.R. Ford, Mimgardr
I don't know if I can face this. You know. The party and the ceremony, and then the hour after that, and the hour after that.
~ Michael Cunningham
Her receptors were just very keen," said Pontes, "and she processes information fast and it spits out decisions and it makes people get nervous.
~ Michael Lewis
You aren't normal if you sing to people. You aren't a normal person. It's nerve-racking.
~ The Weeknd
Be it while recording a song or singing to a live audience, I still get nervous. I feel that is very important. This is what makes me perform well.
~ Neeti Mohan
I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.
~ Namie Amuro
I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.
~ Chino Moreno
I hate flying. I sit back and squirm.
~ Amanda Blake
I still get nervous on dates. I'll be sitting at dinner with a guy and I have to excuse myself and go to the bathroom because I can't breathe.
~ Shannen Doherty
I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.
~ David Eagleman
A pressure situation is not a happy feeling.
~ Abhinav Bindra
I just always had this feeling inside me of always being nervous and afraid of situations.
~ Jonathan Knight
When I go to competitions, I don't have so much confidence that I don't worry or get nervous about the other skaters doing well.
~ Patrick Chan
I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience.
~ Lorraine Bracco
I get butterflies in my stomach before I perform. I love them! They let me know I'm ready to perform, that I'm ready to rock out on stage.
~ Manika
THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
~ Beveryly Cleary