Jitters Quotes

• Every time I set foot on the Bernabeu turf I got the jitters, a kind of anxiety that takes hold of you the moment you step out into the glare of the floodlights.

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  Jorge Valdano

  Feet   Anxiety   Jitters  

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• I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia the next day. Although I like baseball, I kept this engagement only because I felt that my presence at a sporting event might be a gesture of reassurance to a country suffering from a severe attack of 'jitters.'

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  Herbert Hoover

  Country   Baseball   Next Day  

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• I don't get the jitters and I don't get nervous, because I build that comfort on set for myself. Sometimes if I'm gonna do something really crazy, it helps me to yell or look like an idiot on set, so that when I'm about to do a scene, I've already embarrassed myself. I find ways to work around getting the jitters.

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  Logan Lerman

  Crazy   Looks   Jitters  

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• By playing slowly during the early phases of a game I am able to grasp the basic requirements of each position. Then, despite being in time pressure, I have no difficulty in finding the best continuation. Incidentally, it is an odd fact that more often than not it is my opponent who gets the jitters when I am compelled to make these hurried moves.

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  Samuel Reshevsky

  Time   Moving   Games  

  Samuel Reshevsky (1948). “Reshevsky's best games of chess: (Formerly titled: Reshevsky on chess)”, Dover Publications

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• Markets rebounded quickly from morning jitters after the London Thursday terrorist bombing.

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  Cliff Stearns

  Morning   London   Jitters  

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• If she gets the jitters now, then she isn't the great champion that she is.

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  Max Robertson

  Tennis   Champion   Jitters  

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• I like to step into areas where I am afraid. Fear is a sign that I am going in the right direction.

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  April Greiman

  Fear   Steps   Jitters  

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• Then she would be done with J. D. Jameson forever. No more having to prove herself; no more of those pesky jitters she felt whenever she saw him at work—something like butterflies in her stomach, it was actually quite annoying; no more stress; no more fights in the library; and definitely no more sexy I’m-gonna-kiss-you-now-woman blue-eyed heated gazes. She had no idea why she just thought that.

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  Julie James

  Sexy   Stress   Butterfly  

  Julie James (2009). “Practice Makes Perfect”, p.113, Penguin

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• I also have a brand-new prescription for gunfire jitters: When the shooting gets loud, proceed to the nearest wooden staircase. Run up and down a few times, making sure to stumble at least once. What with the scratches and the noise of running and falling, you won't even be able to hear the shooting, much less worry about it. Yours truly has put this magic formula to use, with great success!

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  Anne Frank

  Running   Fall   Worry  

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.180, Bantam

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• Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

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  M. F. K. Fisher

  Family   Food   Memorable  

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.640, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Yeah, it's scary. During filming, it wasn't just jitters from being the newer guy there or the greenest guy there. It was also fear of not messing up such an important character.

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  Steven Yeun

  Character   Guy   Scary  

  Source: collider.com

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• I think people can have a panic attack where your heart is racing, you get shakes and jitters. But you can also feel disconnected. You know what I mean? I can feel depressed.

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  Vinny Guadagnino

  Heart   Mean   Thinking  

  "Vinny Tells All". "Dr. Drew" with Drew Pinsky, edition.cnn.com. May 3, 2012.

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• We wanted to impress the crowd so much. The city has done so much for us and welcomed us right in, and we just wanted to give them a good show and show them that we're going to play for them. I think guys just had a little bit of jitters.

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  Chris Paul

  Thinking   Play   Cities  

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• I feel a lot healthier when I'm having sex. Physically. I feel all these jitters when I wake up in the morning. Just energy jitters. I take vitamins, I work out every day. When I'm having sex, I don't have that.

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  Alyssa Milano

  Morning   Sex   Work Out  

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