#nervous

We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#attain #case #comparing #immense #light

I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous. ↗

— Gary Numan

#because #daunting #famous #hated #i

I think the joy of wanting to direct is having that nervous anxiety knowing your film is about to be shown and you're sitting right there with everyone. ↗

— Renee O'Connor

#anxiety #direct #everyone #film #having

I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#games #get #i #nerves #nervous

In the very beginning whenever Mia Hamm or Brandi Chastain would call for the ball, I'd just give it to them immediately because it was them and I was nervous. ↗

— Heather O'Reilly

#because #beginning #call #give #i

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. ↗

— Carl Rogers

#being #distorted #each #experience #freely

Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles. ↗

— Charles Scott Sherrington

#antagonistic #central #confined #extensive #finds

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#change #consists #individuality #inner #intensification

I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck. ↗

— Susan Smith

#bad #car #did #down #end

I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#his #i #i think #liberty #man