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

— Wesley Snipes

#his #i #i think #liberty #man

I get very nervous whenever I think about it. I've never done a serious play, and I have such awe of the woman - she's really my only idol. It's going to be a big stretch - certain people come out on stage and your face muscles automatically tense and you get ready to smile. ↗

— Judy Holliday

#automatically #awe #big #certain #come

I get very nervous when I have to take my wedding ring off. ↗

— Jerry O'Connell

#get #i #nervous #off #ring

Performers should realize they not only have to prepare themselves for concert purposes as far as memorizing their programs goes, but for the business of just walking out before the people …. It is important to play before an imaginary audience too. Before I play in public I very often play a program three or four times as though I were seated before a actual audience. ↗

— Leonard Rose

#nervousness #performing #public-speaking #business

I don't really get star-struck, but I do get talent struck. If I meet somebody that I think is just wildly talented and brilliant, that's when I start getting nervous. ↗

— Kate Bosworth

#get #getting #i #i do #i think

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