#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

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

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

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

That's the way I like it because there's no time to have nerves about it. You just run out and do it. ↗

— Doug Flutie

#because #i #just #like #nerves

I just grate on my own nerves. I don't like to watch me. ↗

— Megan Fox

#just #like #me #my own #nerves

We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves. ↗

— Dave Haywood

#few #get #lot #may #million

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. ↗

— Doris Humphrey

#impinge #incomparable #itself #movement #movements

I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. ↗

— Joe Louis

#i #like #money #nerves #quiets