#nerve

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. ↗

— Fred Barnes

#associated #balk #bin #bush #chance

Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#extend #images #impulse #limit #memory

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine. ↗

— John Bonham

#before #fine #gig #got #had

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#helper #nerves #our #sharpens #skill

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#doctor #does #first #go #knowledge

Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#am #brain #everything #first #horrors

The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of my character to be outgoing and to be vulnerable and to be out there and onstage. My hands were sweaty and I couldn't swallow, and I drank a bottle of wine to calm my nerves. ↗

— George Lopez

#awful #because #bottle #calm #character

I wish I had the nerve not to tip. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#had #i #i wish #nerve #tip

In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#fitting #fitting in #i #know #lot

I made my career off posing in swimsuits and doing all the swimsuit issues and posters, but I will tell you that that little bit of material on an itsy-bitsy bikini - taking that off was very nerve-racking the first time. ↗

— Cindy Margolis

#bit #career #doing #first #first time