It's pretty much a fact that our entire universe is a mental construct. We don't actually deal with reality directly. We simply compose a picture of reality from what's going on in our retinas, in the timpani of our ears, and in our nerve endings.
It wasn't good for my nerves, that kind of work - a fireman. I've got high blood pressure. I get upset easily. I don't think that was a proper career alternative for me.
You have to control the nerves. I used to get so nervous that I couldn't eat, which wasn't really productive. Having goals and a plan is a good way of lessening the nerves.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet.
If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves.
One must read poetry with one's nerves.
Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership.
I couldn’t sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.
The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve to hear Mother's words.
My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started. . . I was fine.
I'll try and get through as much as my voice and nerves and knees will let me.
I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that if irony serves as a retreat from an emotional engagement that you're overly concerned is uncool, that's a failure of nerve.
Only enormously talented people could have made Death to Smoochy. Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make a film so bad, so miscalculated, so lacking any connection with any possible audience.
Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.
The most nervous I've ever been was on a 250 pound music video which is the first thing I ever did. And I stepped on there with a directing partner, so I could blame him when everything went tits up. But since then my nerves have incrementally decreased so I'm not plagued by the same sense of nerves as I used to be.
I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I'm getting on people's nerves.
The stage is the place I feel comfortable - it's almost as if real life is where I feel most nervous. Conversations are a lot more nerve-wracking.