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Nervous Quotes - Page 3

Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure.

Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.147, Penguin

When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower.

"Did I say that? Martin Amis" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2010.

We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first.

Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

Art Buchwald (1977). “Down the Seine and up the Potomac with Art Buchwald”, Fawcett Books

Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.

B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.101, Shambhala Publications

Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.

Source: journalwomenwriters.wordpress.com

He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.

Neil Simon (2000). “Odd Couple One and Two”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

Alain de Botton (2012). “Religion for Atheists: A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion”, p.188, Penguin UK