#nervous

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#admit #amidst #away #cannot #censorship

I'm always nervous taking on a period role because it's difficult to research - you can't observe it, go out and see it. But it's satisfying because eventually you think, 'I got there.' ↗

— Shirley Henderson

#because #difficult #eventually #go #got

I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully. ↗

— Lydia Ko

#doing #getting #hopefully #i #media

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't. ↗

— Alfred Korzybski

#god #may #nervous #nervous system #sins

The challenge lies in knowing how to bring this sort of day to a close. His mind has been wound to a pitch of concentration by the interactions of the office. Now there are only silence and the flashing of the unset clock on the microwave. He feels as if he had been playing a computer game which remorselessly tested his reflexes, only to have its plug suddenly pulled from the wall. He is impatient and restless, but simultaneously exhausted and fragile. He is in no state to engage with anything significant. It is of course impossible to read, for a sincere book would demand not only time, but also a clear emotional lawn around the text in which associations and anxieties could emerge and be disentangled. He will perhaps only ever do one thing well in his life. For this particular combination of tiredness and nervous energy, the sole workable solution is wine. Office civilisation could not be feasible without the hard take-offs and landings effected by coffee and alcohol. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#coffee #exhaustion #nervous-energy #relaxation #work

Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute. ↗

— Adriana Lima

#nervous #shy #try #you

I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#hippie #i #nervous #newspaper #people

What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack. ↗

— Chris Martin

#bit #cart #everything #horse #instant

I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#daunting #empire #ever #far #i

I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got the script on Friday, went to the audition on Monday and got the part on Tuesday. I was shooting the pilot a week later. I didn't have time to be nervous - it happened so quickly. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#break #easiest #ever #friday #got