Top 87 Your Nerves Quotes
#1. When you have trained your mind and your nerves to realise this idea of the world's nondependence on you or on anybody, there will then be no reaction in the form of pain resulting from work.
Swami Vivekananda
#2. 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".
Friedrich Nietzsche
#3. 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.
Wynton Marsalis
#4. I think Mrs. Leidner seems happier already from just talking about it. That's always a help, you know. It's bottling things up that makes them get on your nerves.
Agatha Christie
#5. I went to sleep a poet and I woke up a fraud. To calm your nerves I'm feeling for my clothes in the dark.
Fall Out Boy
#6. I think that dancing has helped or prepared me, in a number of different ways, for the film industry, especially with controlling your nerves when you walk into an audition because you're on stage from a young age.
Mia Wasikowska
#7. People are going to say a lot of things. And some of it will be helpful, and some of it will be annoying, and lots of it will get on your nerves. But they're saying it because they found it helpful when they lost someone. They mean well.
Michelle Falkoff
#8. Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
Walter Bagehot
#9. A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit
To satisfy, insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not forget
That it is not he or she or them or it that you belong to ...
Bob Dylan
#10. I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.
Jane Austen
#11. Fatigue roughens up the edges of your nerves; it exposes your fears and your weaknesses.
June Havoc
#12. The bigger the crowd the better really! The noise calms your nerves.
Niall Horan
#13. The next time someone gets on your nerves, remember your two choices: 1) share the problem; or 2) let them keep the problem to themselves.
David P. Ingerson
#14. proselytizing unknown alphabets augments the range of rapacity in your nerves
Abdul Rehman
#15. Dun-colored fathers tend to shy at obstacles, and therefore you do not want a father of this color, because life, in one sense, is nothing but obstacles, and his continual shying will reduce your nerves to grease.
Donald Barthelme
#16. 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.
John Niven
#17. Dear sir, you simply begin. There is no magic method of beginning. If a man standing on the edge of a swimming-bath and wanting to jump into the cold water should ask you, "How do I begin to jump?" you would merely reply, "Just jump. Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
Arnold Bennett
#18. Your nerves can get the better of you, especially when it's your first film.
Rutina Wesley
#19. You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.
Jane Austen
#20. Family is just accident, Jessie. It's nothing personal, hon. They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.
Marsha Norman
#21. Every day kill just one, rather than today five, tomorrow ten ... that is enough for you. Then your nerves are calm and you can sleep good, you have your drink in the evening and the next morning you are fit again.
Erich Hartmann
#22. When someone stays with you and they're not your guest, even when they are your guest they get on your nerves. When people visit for long periods of time, that just happens.
Sean Durkin
#23. I'll bring you a special tea ... to soothe your nerves, my dear. Is that fine?" Nyx spoke softly to Andy.
Andy nodded, "Yes, thank you."
Galen handed Andy a box of tissues. "I think she needs something stronger; vodka, perhaps?
Nely Cab
#24. You always have nerves. And it's important to respect your nerves and your doubts. And then you have to ultimately overcome them.
Michael Pitt
#25. When it's wet, you're much more tense on the steering wheel, you have to dance with the throttle and the brakes more. Each lap is a different scenario, so you're really on the edge of your nerves. One mistake could cost you the entire race.
Allan McNish
#26. Ballet has really helped me in every acting role. You have to be very disciplined, you have to be able to control your nerves and perform under pressure, and all those things you have to use in acting when you're on film or going for an audition.
Mia Wasikowska
#27. I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
#28. Your family, even though you love them, they can get on your nerves. You spend so much time together.
Alex Hirsch
#29. The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
Stephen Rea
#30. Why, my dear fellow, you may drive yourself into delirium if you have the impulse to work upon your nerves, to go ringing bells at night and asking about blood!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#31. The trick is to smoke a cigarette to calm your nerves and then take a big swig of strong liquor to tone your muscles.
Lev Yashin
#32. Red stimulates and excites your nerves, pulse rate and blood circulation, and lends energy to your entire system. When you are fatigued, lethargic or sluggish for any reason, red has an energizing influence.
Tae Yun Kim
#33. The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
#34. Your master will bestow that experience shortly. Your body is not tuned just yet. As a small lamp cannot withstand excessive electrical voltage, so your nerves are unready for the cosmic current. If I gave you the infinite ecstasy right now, you would burn as if every cell were on fire.
Yogananda Paramhansa
#35. To control your nerves, you must have a positive thought in your mind.
Byron Nelson
#36. With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If you manage to live through it, nothing can ever jar your nerves after that.
Sue Sanders
#37. There is no magic method of beginning ... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
Arnold Bennett
#38. 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.
Eliot Ness
#39. ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.
Mitch Albom
#40. When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#41. When you're the ones in the life raft and you have four or five women in the life raft who put it together, by the end of it your nerves are blown. The people you're going to attack are the people who are helping you, who you are holding it together with.
Junot Diaz
#42. You can always tell when the relationship is over. Little things start getting on your nerves, 'Would you please stop that! That breathing in and out, it's so repetitious.'
Ellen DeGeneres
#43. I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#44. I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable ... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your nerves, or your blood running.
Lou Reed
#45. Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean, we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets, too.
Preity Zinta
#47. The adultery book says to say affirmations of some sort each day, about yourself or your marriage. The wife doesn't like the ones that are suggested so she makes up her own.
Nerves of Steel
No favors for fuckers
Jenny Offill
#48. That's an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you're not thinking about anything, you're not thinking about your lines or what you're supposed to do - your body, your brain knows, so there's freedom. There's not fear, there's not nerves.
Eric McCormack
#49. If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine.
Debi Thomas
#50. Your brain is a forest,
And the nerves are trees.
When the branches touch,
Snaps jumps between the leaves.
Rich Shapero
#51. Brenna's eyes widened. Raising a hand, she brushed his hair gently off his forehead.
"Why do I keep telling you things I swore I'd take to my grave?"
The contact shot electricity through his nerves. "Because you know I'll always be your shield against the nightmares.
Nalini Singh
#52. I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
E. E. Cummings
#53. Worpswede, Worpswede, I cannot get you out of my mind ... Your magnificent pine trees! I call them my men
thick, gnarled, powerful, and tall
yet with the most delicate nerves and fibers in them.
Paula Modersohn-Becker
#54. If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which is typical of moviemaking. And then you get back to your normal life and you have to have nerves of steel.
Geraldine Chaplin
#55. Your nation needs you. Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of steel.
Abhijit Naskar
#56. All of your quotes are getting on my nerves.
Peter Burke
#57. You have a heart and nerves the same as your brother men! Why should you be anxious to conceal them?
Emily Bronte
#58. When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you
have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw.
Jodi Picoult
#59. Losing a position is aggravating, whereas losing your nerve is devastating.
Ed Seykota
#60. If you're not mentally tough,
If nerves undo you instead of focus you,
If you don't have the inner arrogance
That you absolutely have what it takes to win,
If you don't see, in your mind's eye,
A picture of yourself winning - then you won't win;
And not because you can't.
Summer Sanders
#61. The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Swami Vivekananda
#62. I'd love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, 'How do you make your marriage work?' I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He's this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor.
Sherri Shepherd
#63. A few people said to me on the UK tour 'that feeling you're feeling is natural. Everyone feels nerves. But, you've got to use that to your advantage. You've got to use that nervous energy and pull it into your performance'. And, I'd never thought of that before.
Ladyhawke
#64. 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.
Akon
#65. 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
#66. You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice, provided only if it is honest. Your ideal is a daring courtesan of genius. Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#67. So build up the body, build up the nerves, and build up the mind until your faith is so strong there is no fear at all and you are the master.
Swami Satchidananda
#68. Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct.
Jane Roberts
#69. The structure of your organism, of your senses and nerves, endows the world with all its sensible and measurable properties - for rocks cannot seem to be hard except in relation to soft skin.
Alan W. Watts
#70. The moment you resolve to be victorious, every nerve and fiber in your being will immediately orient itself toward your success.
Daisaku Ikeda
#71. The sick person becomes very adept at distinguishing between compassion and pity. Compassion is someone else's suffering flaring in your own nerves. Pity is a projection of, a lament for, the self. All those people weeping in the mirror of your misery? Their tears are real, but they are not for you.
Christian Wiman
#72. When you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw
Jodi Picoult
#73. Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.
Lorne Michaels
#74. Having nerves and feeling the pressure just gets you focused and gets your concentration level where it needs to be. I harness that nervous energy into a positive way.
Tom Lehman
#75. 'Indiana Jones' wasn't physically tough, but they are the only two films I've ever been ill on. On 'The Last Crusade,' I got sciatica. That's when the sciatic nerve, which goes through the funny hole in your pelvis down your leg, swells and rubs against the nerves.
John Rhys-Davies
#76. Is life less thrilling if your neighbors are rational, if they don't bomb your power stations whenever they feel you need to be admonished? Is it less rousing if they don't rattle your windows and nerves with indiscriminate sonic booms just because they can?
Rabih Alameddine
#77. When the state of observation is sustained, it changes the quality of your biological structure. The nerves are steady, the chemical system has an equilibrium, and there is relaxation, equipoise. You live in the clarity of knowing who you are.
Vimala Thakar
#78. If with the millions of nerves in your body and you still don't feel the pain of others, then you probably might be some kind of robot.
Eli Coffie
#79. Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership.
John Waters
#80. Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your body and mind; it feeds itself, and creates its own requirement. Loneliness and solitude are walls.
R.J. Ellory
#81. Your body produces some chemicals that stimulate some nerves that send a signal to your brain saying 'Oh my God, I am going to die,' and that's how you get pain.
Kinoko Nasu
#82. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Swami Vivekananda , Ramakrishna Paramhans, Sarda Devi
#83. War makes extremely heavy demands on the soldier's strength and nerves. For this reason, make heavy demands on your men in peacetime exercises.
Erwin Rommel
#84. What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men. It is man-making theories that we want. It is man-making education all round that we want.
Swami Vivekananda
#85. Nerves can be useful, as they sharpen you up, make you determined to try your hardest and do your best.
Stephen Cole
#86. It takes a lot of nerve to bang your fist and demand tougher juvenile gun laws while doing nothing to enforce the ones that already exist. I must point out that doubling the size of the criminal code will not matter if the Clinton-Gore administration refuses to vigorously enforce these laws.
Bill McCollum
#87. Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it.
Stefan Zweig
