#nerves

I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash. ↗

— Mordechai Vanunu

#i #lot #nerves #psychology #sleep

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

#been #everything #feel #felt #gain

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

#attack #attacked #being #chance #got

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#calm #day #everything #excitement #feel

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#nerves #pretty #writing

Drop something?" he asked, trying to suppress a smile but failing miserably at the act. I nodded and smiled back at him sheepishly, unable to find my voice to respond in any other way. "Interested in locks, I see," he commented. I nodded again. "Well, here you go," he said, and he handed the book to me. I nodded. Oh crap, why did I just nod? Take the book! I screamed inside my head. Take it! I took it slowly. He kept looking at me, smiling. ↗

— Markelle Grabo

#humor #love #nerves #humor

I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomorrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#excitement #nerves #change

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#amiable #being #day #destroys #every

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. ↗

— Herbert Gold

#boils #brought #careers #demands #edge

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

— Henry Cotton

#domination #method #nerves #putting #secret