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Quotes About Nervousness

Though on dry land Joey D seemed as if he were on the verge of a nervous breakdown, at sea he was an expert relaxer. On cue he could release all the tension in his muscles and bob along like a jellyfish—a 260-pound Irish jellyfish. I watched his face as he floated, a mask of pure serenity I'd never witnessed on any man. Then his face became still more serene, and I realized that he must be peeing.
~ Unknown
All the nervousness she'd been feeling about skipping to fourth grade suddenly burbled up inside her.
~ Unknown
the sight of it made Vasiht'h nervous. Unavoidably. Utterly. Completely. He needed more adverbs to describe his anxiety over the charge he'd been given
~ M.C.A. Hogarth
As his neighbor Tatyana Litvinova described it, "Nobody who saw him taking his bows on the platform after his music had been performed could forget his crooked figure, his grimace of misery and the fingers that never stopped drumming on his cheek. It was torture just to watch him! He minced his steps and bowed like a circus pony. There was something robot-like in his movements." He didn't need to be nervous.
~ Unknown
If you're not nervous, son, then something is wrong.
~ John Grisham
I'm not afraid, but I'm very nervous.
~ John Irving
Among these contemptuous women, poor Germaine had the disadvantage of being young--and almost pretty, in a shy, mousy way. She possessed the nonspecific clumsiness of someone who makes such a constant effort to be inconspicuous that she is creatively awkward--without meaning to, Germaine hoarded attention to herself; her almost electric nervousness disturbed the atmosphere surrounding her.
~ John Irving
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. BERTRAND RUSSELL
~ John Lloyd
It's not bad to stand in front of 20,000 people and sing. It's nerve-racking, a huge adrenaline rush, but it's also very exciting, and not many people get to experience that. It's pretty special.
~ Lauren Hart
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
~ Bertrand Russell
I hate being nervous or anxious. My heart gets to beating all fast and I get chills, ugh, I been tying to calm down like its not that serious.
~ Unknown
Being nervous when talking in front of a lot of people. Sweaty hands, shakey voice, forgetting what your about to say.
~ Unknown
Uncertainty causes anxiety, Anxiety causes fear, Fear causes nervousness, Nervousness causes panic, Panic causes helplessness. Have faith in God. He will help and protect you.
~ Unknown
Nothing is more cute than a shy guy trying to tell you in his nervousness that he loves you.
~ Unknown
I'm a human being, I cry, I'm actually extremely sensitive, my feelings get hurt, I get scared, I get nervous just like everyone else.
~ Unknown
It is one diagnostic trait of Homo sapiens that groups of individuals are periodically infected with a feverish nervousness which causes the individual to turn on and destroy, not only his own kind, but the works of his own kind. It is not known whether this be caused by a virus, some airborne spore, or whether it be a species reaction to some meteorological stimulus as yet undetermined.
~ John Steinbeck
The Western States are nervous under the beginning change. Need is the stimulus to concept, concept to action. A half-million people moving over the country; a million more resting, ready to move; ten million more feeling the first nervousness.
~ John Steinbeck
But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I,'' and cuts you off forever from the "we.'' The Western States are nervous under the beginning change. Need is the stimulus to concept, concept to action. A half-million people moving over the country; a million more restive, ready to move; ten million more feeling the first nervousness
~ John Steinbeck
A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.
~ Faith Hill
If you're not prepared, it's not pressure you feel, it's fear.
~ Bruce Bochy
I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.
~ Jerzy Kosi?ski
Many people associate stage fright with a fear of looking ridiculous, making a bad impression. For me, it's like a kind of fever.
~ Jeanne Moreau
I am made to tremble and I fear!
~ Pope John XXIII
Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
~ Honore de Balzac