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Tag Name "Nerves" (496)

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I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding after having kids, like Mary King, but people say that you lose your nerve after you have kids. It's the risk.
Zara Phillips
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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
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It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
Zora Neale Hurston
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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Alan Watts
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Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.
W. C. Fields
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for every person who's stepped out of line and lived to regret it, there are two people who stayed in line because they got their values mixed and lost their nerve, and who have lived to regret it still more. You don't hear about those people because they're still in line where they don't show.
Gwethalyn Graham
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His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.
Lee Trevino
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Fear is a weakness. It makes a person lose her nerve and her cool. It makes people jumpy and organizations nervous, and when that happens, there is always a chance to take advantage.
Ally Carter
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I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It's quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It's kind of a happy train wreck.
Craig Ferguson
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Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.
Michael Caine
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He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We're all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
Bette Midler
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Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.
Paul Theroux
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Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.
Horace Bushnell
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Every time I ran the mile I was aware of my own weakness, there was some opponent who could give me a hell of a fight, so I never went into a race with a sense of invincibility. I always had that feeling of fragility and nerves which made me run faster.
Roger Bannister
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The dismissal of any of these people would send a useful signal to U.S. allies that the president has the nerve - and self-awareness - to make a change.
Bret Stephens
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Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.
Johannes Peter Muller
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When you're writing something and you know it's good, you get flushed, you can feel the blood coursing through your veins, you feel alive, all your nerve endings stand up, something just clicks.
Madonna Ciccone
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Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.
Horace Mann
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Your family, even though you love them, they can get on your nerves. You spend so much time together.
Alex Hirsch
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My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
Hailee Steinfeld
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A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.
Renee Fleming
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I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.
Dana Plato
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