Nigel Pearson Quotes

The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.

Whenever things are good, I always worry about what could go wrong.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

I fear the future.

When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.

When there's uncertainty they always think there's another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall.

We promise according to our hopes; we fulfill according to our fears.

Most of the things we are afraid will happen never do. Something to think about.

When things are going good, I get nervous.

Even if you're an optimist, there's some part of you that just tries to toughen up and be pragmatic and go, 'This isn't gonna happen. This isn't gonna happen.' I really felt that way through the process of 'Korra' because I knew 'Avatar,' and I knew how wonderful it was, and I was so terrified.

I am always the type of person who is waiting for the other shoe to drop and for it to peter out and end. And if it does that's fine.

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

I'm not a fearful person, but I'm a pretty pessimistic person. So some of my best times are waiting, anticipating. That's the way it always has been with me, whether anticipating a ball game, anticipating a relationship.

The bad times I can handle. It's the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going going to drop?

Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.

That's the scary thing about hope," she said. "If you let it go too long it turns into faith.

You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.

I don't have any expectations of anything.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.