A Failure Of Nerve Quotes

#1. The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve.

John Gregory Dunne

#2. Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

George Santayana

#3. The statistics reveal a failure of nerve on the part of many Christians. They seem to be simply unable to muster the strength necessary to develop a tenacious commitment to the truthfulness of Scripture.

Douglas Groothuis

#4. C. S. Lewis, who was once described by a friend as a man in love with the imagination, believed that a complacent acceptance of the status quo reflects more than a failure of nerve.

C.S. Lewis

#5. We're here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?

Steve Jobs

#6. Failure isn't a problem. It's the fear of failure that's the limiting factor. You can't lose your nerve for the big failure, because it's the exact same nerve you need for the big success.

Regina E. Dugan

#7. Personally, I would love to see every gun on the planet disappear.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#8. It was a failure of pedagogical nerve, she reminded herself, to give up on a student.

Paul Russell

#9. The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

Arthur Helps

#10. Spiritual balance is tai chi. It is the center of things. It is the place where yin and yang meet. In the chakras, it is considered the heart chalkra, anahata.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Choking is being in a position to win, and then experiencing some critical failure of nerve or spirit. That never happened to me. And I can't help but think it was because I was never afraid to lose.

Pete Sampras

#12. There are two ways to stay safe, Reen's voice whispered to her. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.

M. C. Gainey

#14. Anywhere we go, we will have our self with us; we cannot escape ourselves.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#15. In the beginning, there were dragons; proud, fience,and independent. Their scale were like gems and all who gazed upon them despaired, for their beauty was great and terrible..!

Christopher Paolini

#16. Ten episodes goes by really quickly, especially when you've got a really tough shooting schedule of seven-day episodes.

Tricia Helfer

#17. There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.

Leslie Caron

#18. For the first time in his centuries of life, doing the right thing didn't seem like the right thing to do.

Marissa Clarke

#19. If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.

Jean-Luc Godard

#20. There's nothing wrong with being happy somewhere, even if it's the little pond you grew up in, as long as you are in fact comfortable vs. bored.

Carolyn Hax

#21. History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish for the next 30 in low Earth orbit. At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.

Buzz Aldrin

#22. The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart.

Mencius