#nervous

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

— Alfred Korzybski

#god #may #nervous #nervous system #sins

We're from the ghetto. Venus is a ghetto Cinderella. People from the ghetto don't get nervous. ↗

— Richard Williams

#get #ghetto #nervous #people #venus

I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#channel #endurance #energy #i #into

I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#been #ever #i #kid #nervous

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

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

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage. ↗

— Neko Case

#feel #i #nervous #stage

There's a difference between wanting to appear confident and actually feeling confident. I think there have been many times when I've overcompensated for how nervous or out of place I feel. I was like that at school. ↗

— James Corden

#appear #been #between #confident #difference

I don't think you're human if you don't get nervous. ↗

— Sidney Crosby

#human #i #nervous #think #you

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