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“I'm very shy, and I shy away from people. But the moment I hit the stage, it's a different feeling I get nerve from somewhere; maybe it's because it's something I love to do.”

People Different Moments Feelings Stage Shy Nerves Different Feelings

Author:Ella Fitzgerald

“Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel.”

People Strong President Chance Decision Willing Angry Clinton Nerves Traits Steel Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden Pleasers Unpopular Decisions

Author:Fred Barnes

“I had a tumor in my left eye which killed the optic nerve, but it's my real eye. I just cannot see out of it.”

Real Eye Left Nerves Tumors Left Eye Real Eyes

Author:Sandy Duncan

“Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.”

People Please Nerves Bloody Goodman

Author:Len Goodman

“I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.”

Needs Said President College Skins Nerves Sense Of Humor Thick Pipe Good Sense Sewers Thick Skin Good Sense Of Humor

Author:Gordon Gee

“Being unprepared heightens nerves.”

Nerves Unprepared

Author:James Galway

“Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.”

Men Causes Peace Interest Special Activism Nerves Inward Special Interests Inventory

Author:Rodney Crowell

“Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any invasion of their privacy. Oh, sure, they'll make mistakes - but that's their business, not yours. (You made your own mistakes, did you not?)”

Made Ends Sex Business Mistake Growing Up Growing Affair Crowds Privacy Making Mistakes Nerves Invasion Resent Youngsters

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.”

People Thinking Men Country Political Brain Willing Benefits Endure Disaster Radical Nerves Stagnation

Author:William Randolph Hearst

“There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.”

Philosophy Body Emotion Movement Unique Medicine Senses Nerves Soma Incomparable

Author:Doris Humphrey

“A 3-foot putt can be more nerve-racking than a 9-foot putt because a 3-foot putt you should be getting in. A 9-footer, there's a chance it won't go in.”

Should Chance Feet Nerves

Author:Lydia Ko

“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.”

States Body Causes Consciousness Quality Excited Sensations Nerves

Author:Johannes Peter Muller

“To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.”

Ifs Use Light Action Speak Principles Expression Currents Nervous Nerves Electric Symbolic Magnetism Electric Current

Author:Johannes Peter Muller

“I find doing speeches nerve wrecking.”

Author:Kate Middleton

“The structure of the human brain is enormously complex. It contains about 10 billion nerve cells (neurons), which are interlinked in a vast network through 1,000 billion junctions (synapses). The whole brain can be divided into subsections, or sub-networks, which communicate with each other in a network fashion. All this results in intricate patterns of intertwined webs, networks of nesting within larger networks.”