Quotes About Nervousness

I'd say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire.

I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

I never used to speak to the audience at all. I never really knew what to say onstage.

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

There's a picture of me as a little girl, and I'm waiting to go onstage, and I am biting the last bit of nail I have left on my finger.

When I step out onto the ice to compete 'Romeo and Juliet,' I don't feel like a fighter. I feel very nervous, and it's very difficult for me to get into the mindset for it.

The main thing going through my head when I step out onto any show is: 'Don't mess it up, Emma, don't mess it up.'

We're playing the Superbowl this year, we're opening up before the coins drop.

What's an opening night without forgetting some lyrics?

Being in a room full of my art makes me incredibly nervous because the work always gets damaged when it's shown, and I hate my openings.

You always worry before your movie opens that no one is going to come out.

All his life he had had a horror of definite appointments. An invitation to tea a week ahead had been enough to poison life for him. He was one of those young men whose souls revolt at the thought of planning out any definite step. He could do things on the spur of the moment, but plans made him lose his nerve.

we tensed for the moment of entry, the butterflies swarming in their familiar, nervous dance in our stomachs;

El miedo causa preocupación. La preocupación pone a uno tenso y nervioso, afecta a los nervios del estomago, cambia los jugos gástricos de normales a anormales y frecuentemente provoca ulceras estomacales. Las ulceras del estomago no vienen de lo que se que come. Vienen de lo que está comiendo a uno.

Sometimes the butterflies were there just to make you queasy; sometimes the butterflies were there to let you know that something good was on its way

Noel Vanstone [...] composed himself to meet the coming ordeal, with reclining head and grasping hands - in the position familiarly associated to all civilized humanity with a seat in a dentist's chair.

He'd lived for so long on a constant edge of anxiety that he'd almost forgotten what real fear was.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

It is like a general informing his soldiers that it is better to keep out of battle forever than to risk a single wound. Not so are victories either over enemies or over nature gained. Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. At any rate, it seems the fittest thing for the empiricist philosopher.

Why are we here again?" Derrick asked, his green eyes narrowing into slits. Beads of sweat gathered along the edge of his hair and his hands were trembling. For someone who studied monstrous creatures from the ocean, Derrick seemed surprisingly nervous about the supernatural. Of course, thought Min, if Derrick didn't want to see a vampire squid all he had to do was stay out of the ocean. A ghost could find you anywhere.

My hands are clammy. It's a terrible kind of anticipation, not knowing what we're walking into. The last time I felt this way I was in the waiting rooms at Ellis Island.

Memo: do not drink coffee. It makes me uselessly nervy, even trembly, and engenders baseless optimism about my powers of creation.