Paul Dirac Quotes

I almost feel more anxious lately about, 'Here's your opportunity, now you've got to make something of it.'

The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.

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.

Sometimes, if I allow time to be creative, it doesn't show up.

There were so many nerves with putting out new music.

Every time I do something or release something or announce a new project, there's always that fear that it won't go well.

On draft day, I wasn't really nervous at all. Then you turn on the draft, the first five picks go by, and then you still thinking, 'Oh man, I don't know where I'm going to go.' It's really just, by the time draft hits, that's when you get nervous.

I used to go to the gym with one of my best friends, and we seemed to have the same conversation over and over again. I was always saying, 'I'm still not pregnant, and I still haven't worked out what I'm writing,' and her answer to both was always, 'Just relax!'

I think pressure exists in a situation only when you are unsure of your talent and people are expecting a lot from you due to your lineage.

You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math.

And it's best if you know a good thing is going to happen, like an eclipse or getting a microscope for Christmas. And it's bad if you know a bad thing is going to happen, like having a filling or going to France. But I think it is worst if you don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing which is going to happen.

Nobody's going to like my next movie because they liked Trainwreck [2015]. It has to work on its own, and that keeps it really scary.

She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.

The search for extra-terrestrial life is a failure until that moment when it suddenly becomes a success.

I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.

You're always under the microscope, and you don't know which mission you're going to get. It's a surprise.

Sometimes, when I get a good picture, it feels like I have taken another nervous step into increasingly rarified air. Each good-news picture, no matter how hard-earned, allows me only a crumbling foothold on this steepening climb—an ascent whose milestones are fear and doubt.

What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I'm almost ready to begin something really new?

To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.

The pressure of 'what are you going to do?' makes everyone feel like they haven't done anything yet.

Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?

Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.

I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that wasn't going to happen, I became increasingly frustrated and unsure of myself.