Top 1200 Nervous Quotes & Sayings

I don't get nervous anymore. The first couple times I met Roger Federer, or Grigor Dimitrov, I was a little nervous. But now, it's more natural.

For, like, 98 percent of my life, I'm not nervous. But as soon as I'm nervous, I start shaking or something, and I lose my cool.

I never stop getting nervous. I'm nervous before every single show.

Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nervous system to its normal functioning.

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

I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous I know I'm going to have a good show.

Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious.

I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.

I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do, you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do.

I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.

When you stop being nervous is when you should retire. I'm always a little nervous for anything I do because when complacency sets in, that's when I feel it's time to move on to something else.

We are nervous before every concert. I think we are the most nervous band in the world.

I didn't get nervous when I ran, but I get nervous watching other people now. I root for anybody with a USA on their chest.

When I get nervous, I think about my dad, who would always tell me, 'When you're nervous, it means you care.' So I embrace it. That reminds me I'm ready.

Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.

I get nervous playing the Opry still. You take that nervous energy and channel it into being amped.

You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

I've never been nervous. I just wanted to play and have a good time. If it didn't work, then I would get nervous. But, for the most part, I just go for it.

Even when I'm nervous, I think I'm able to turn that nervous energy into strength.

I'm a nervous sharer. I'm nervous to share things in their unfinished state just because, I mean, it's kind of embarrassing. You know what it could be, but you can't explain what it's going to be.

I feel you gotta be nervous. If you're nervous, it's just 'cause you want to do well, it's not 'cause you're scared.

Seeing Pax get extra-nervous about which shirt he is going to wear when he meets Aung San Suu Kyi, I get very moved. He rightfully doesn't get nervous going to a movie premiere; he gets nervous going to meet her.

You talk more when you're nervous," he said, still standing close to her. "No i don't. That's absurd. I'm just trying to explain to you-" "Do i make you nervous?" "No. I'm not nervous." "You're trembling." "I'm cold. I'm wearing practically zero clothes." His glance went to her lips, then back to her eyes. "I noticed.

A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years!

When I get nervous, I go to the library and hang around. The libraries are filled with people who are nervous. You can blend in with them there. You're bound to see someone more nervous than you are in a library. Sometimes the librarians themselves are more nervous than you are. I'll probably be a librarian for that reason. Then if I'm nervous on the job, it won't show. I'll just stamp books and look things up for people and run back and forth to the staff room sneaking smokes until I get hold of myself. A library is a great place to hid.

It's easy to forget when you're an elite athlete that everyone else gets nervous as well. Even the best people in the world, at whatever they do, they're still nervous

When I look at my fellow competitors, I say to myself, 'I many be nervous, but you are definetly nervous as well.'

I always get nervous. It's usually a good thing. I worry about the nights that I'm not nervous, actually.

When I do these interviews, I get really nervous. And when I get nervous, it comes off as mellow for some reason.

Being nervous is not something you should be ashamed of. Nervous means you care, you really want to do well.

A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".

The thing I'm most interested in is the nervous system. How do brains grow? How do genes build complicated nervous systems?

I'm always nervous. If I wasn't nervous, it would be weird. I get the same feeling at all the big races. It's part of the routine, and I accept it. It means I'm there and I'm ready.

Singing Flower of Scotland was the only thing that made me nervous.I don't get nervous doing my own shows.

I think I'm most nervous about revealing how nervous I have always been. People think me calm, confident, poised. Inside I'm a jelly.

I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most.

I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care - that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

I know when things are going to get me a little nervous, because nervous to me feels good.

If I've done a gig and at the end there are people waiting for autographs, they always seem nervous, but they probably don't realise that I'm more nervous than them. I get very embarrassed.

And turkeys are a bird. A very nervous bird. You'd be nervous too if you knew that one day you'd get your head cut off and... filled with stuffing.

When I'm nervous, I know I care about something - you should be nervous about things that you want.

I usually never, ever get nervous before a regular show. But a TV show? I'm always nervous because you know you gotta nail that song.

I remember the days of auditioning and being nervous and so I really didn't want to make people have to jump through hoops to do auditions and be nervous and make them more nervous. I kind of wanted to hire everybody and find something for everybody.

I get nervous watching teammates. I get nervous for them. Late in the game, pressure situation, I'm nervous for them.

I am still nervous every show. Not in the "Wow, I'm scared, I can't go on nervous," but the "I really want to do a good job and the give the audience a great show" kind of nervous. Oh, yes, the nerves are there, but I let them push me instead of holding me back.

I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.

Broadly speaking, nervous women may be divided into two classes - those who are really nervous, and those who imagine themselves to be so.

I get nervous before openings or premieres or when someone's reading a new script, and I get nervous when my daughter isn't in my immediate field of vision.

So, suddenly I was an actor. I don't remember being nervous. I learned to be nervous later.

I would prefer to be a little nervous, because when you stop being nervous is kind of when you stop caring.

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.

Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It’s conscious.

I was really nervous. Even when I left the audition I was nervous.

Yeah, my first season playing varsity, that was probably the last season I got nervous for. I was kind of nervous for that one.

I was never nervous directing. Not once. I'm more nervous acting. I'm far more nervous on set, before I say my lines, than I ever have been, as a director.

If I'm not nervous, I'm nervous. You never know how people are going to receive the work.

You know, after the film I said to myself, "It's a good thing you were so stupid not to be nervous. If I'd been nervous, it would have ruined the whole thing.

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

I can play in front of 30,000 people at Fenway and not be nervous at all. But I get really nervous in front of kids.