I was in L.A. during an earthquake in 1994, an experience that really stressed me out. I started doing yoga to calm my nerves.
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
Now that I’m doing all these big competitions, I’ve learned to control my nerves and control my mindset, and I think that’s where the maturity comes in.
If nerves undo you, then you’re unlikely to make it as a top footballer.
I’m nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I’m on the wrong end of a short sale.
I wasn’t born with nerves. You have to take yourself out of the equation and think about everyone else – you’re the entertainer.
I’d never experienced stress before I did stand-up, and it was a massive shock to my system, this thing of waking up, and the nerves of, ‘You’re on stage tonight.’
In many ways, a song-writing partnership is like a marriage. Apart from just liking each other, a lyricist and a composer should be able to spend long periods of time together – around the clock if need be – without getting on each other’s nerves. Their goals, outlooks, and basic philosophies should be similar.
Moscow is a big city. It’s all nerves – something’s always happening somewhere. D.C. is a quiet, calm family town.
It has gotten worse as I’m becoming more successful. My nerves. Just because there’s a bit more pressure, and people are expecting a lot more from me.
Biological anthropology tends to focus on skeletons because that’s what is often left behind in the ground, but I am a whole-body anatomist, I’m a clinical anatomist and that’s what I teach, I teach it all, not just the skeleton, the muscles and nerves, blood vessels.
Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.
A face isn’t an organ, like a liver or a heart. A face is muscles, nerves, bones, and skin. A face is more like a hand or a foot.
Every telecast, I still have butterflies and a little bit of nerves. But I think the nerves help. It elevates my attentiveness.
I love the experience of getting to direct because I can have all of the fun of helping shape the show, but I don’t have to actually do it, so I don’t have to deal with the 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.
I still get nervous before going out, especially with a company like WWE and NXT, but it’s different. I know how to wrestle, but it’s the nerves of performing and wanting your last match to be as good as the one before.
I like ‘nerves’! I like the word ‘migraineur’. I like the word ‘madness’. These are OK words. The 19th century had a very handy term: ‘neurasthenic’. I think that’s a very useful word. We all know what that means: it means extra-sensitive.
I am extremely nervous before anything. People who say they aren’t nervous are telling a white lie. Nerves get you going, as you are playing for so much at the highest level.
I did Shakespeare in college, and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing ‘Mad Men.’ I want to get the dialogue just spot-on.
The bigger the crowd the better really! The noise calms your nerves.
But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one’s eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
When you suffer an attack of nerves you’re being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?
The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves.
Dre says it gets on his nerves when I try to rap. He’d rather have me sing.
Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years after collapsing from nerves before a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981. When she resumed performing, she would sometimes ask members of her band to spank her before she went onstage, to distract her from her anxiety.
You don’t have to like me as a person – I understand that I can get on people’s nerves with the antics I do in the ring. This is not a popularity contest. I’m trying to do whatever I can to win the fight.
I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started… I was fine.
Among the Internet’s many gains for humanity, decreasing paranoia has not been one of them. Anything from that lump under your armpit to what’s lurking in the sea – just type it into a search engine and watch your nerves explode.
I’m just so lucky – my office is a racetrack. That is something I’m very thankful for. It’s exciting, and it’s challenging, and there are a lot of emotions and nerves that come with it, but right there before the gates open, before that minute and a half or two minutes of the race, it just hits you.
I couldn’t sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.
There’s always nerves when you’re releasing something.
Some time ago, I made a basic decision about the way in which I was going to live the little of life available to me The idea was to place myself in the presence of only those people who give off the warm, friendly vibrations which soothe the coating on my nerves. Life never was long enough to provide time for enemies.
I try not to have nerves. You have to be cold-blooded. You have to think, to look at the goalkeeper: how is he positioned? You study them, you know about them, even if there isn’t always time, even if it’s sometimes intuition. You look to see where he is.
My main weakness is nerves.
In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.
I try not to set myself up as different or as a celebrity or special. I have a husband that can get on my nerves. I have kids that test my patience. I’ve got a cat I can’t keep off the sofa. It’s real. On a bad day, I’m reading ‘Acts of Faith.’
I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I’m getting on people’s nerves.
I have permanent damage to my facial nerves. I went to the UCLA Movement Disorder Clinic, and after two years of tests and constant monitoring they have finally found the right medication that keeps the spasms under control.
You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.
Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.
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.
I listen to worship music before the game to calm my nerves and just go out and have fun. It’s a game, and I try to enjoy it.
That’s basically all my act is – it’s just listening all the time and watching for what people do with their hands and so on. It gets on people’s nerves a bit – especially when you’re at a wedding and you’re scribbling on a table and they go ‘stop doing that’ and you go ‘I can’t.’
Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn’t be triggered by a normal voice.
Come fight night, there will be nerves, but it’s how you react to those nerves – doing what you need to regardless – that’s how you win fights.
There’s always a little bit of anticipation – some people call it nerves – the night before, and although I always slept pretty well before big matches, you want to be on edge a little bit to get the best out of yourself.
I’ve taken up sculpting. I thought it might help the nerves in my hands.
He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions is not enough, since all nerves are sensitive to the same cause but react to the same cause in different ways.
I have nerves before every fight – it doesn’t matter who I’m fighting – and every fight is your biggest fight, so I’ve always got to check myself.
In any relationship you have times where it gets tedious. But that becomes a strength. That you are able to hang around someone even when they get on your nerves.
In the past, before games, I would near enough make myself ill. Nerves and stuff.
To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.
Nothing gets on other people’s nerves at the office more than a whistler. And the sad part is, these whistlers don’t know they’re doing it. Someone should, tactfully, tell the whistler how much it disrupts the office environment.
