Sheer Quotes - Page 11

When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can take place.

Shane Carruth

Beautiful, Math, Really Beautiful

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I wrote The Philosophy of Disenchantment, which is, I think, the gloomiest and worst book ever published. Out of sheer laziness, I then produced a history of atheism, The Anatomy of Negation, which has been honored by international dislike. Need I state that of all my children it is the one that I prefer?

Edgar Saltus

Children, Philosophy, Book

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Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be. If your job is to dance, do your dance. If the divine, cockeyed genius assigned to your case decides to let some sort of wonderment be glimpsed, for just one moment through your efforts, then 'Ole!' And if not, do your dance anyhow. And 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless. I believe this and I feel that we must teach it. 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless, just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Jobs, Believe, Effort

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time -- but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms . . .

Midge Decter

Children, Sound, Generations

Midge Decter (1975). “Liberal parents, radical children”, Coward McCann

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oh mothers you will have made the little tykes
so happy because if nobody does pick them up in the movies
they won't know the difference
and if somebody does it'll be sheer gravy

Frank O'Hara

Movie, Mother, Differences

Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to make them so is to neutralize the primary, gorgeous eccentricity of imagery in Western culture since the Reformation: the fact that it cannot be trusted, that imagery is always presumed to be proposing something contestable and controversial. This is the sheer, ebullient, slithering, dangerous fun of it. No image is presumed inviolable in our dance hall of visual politics, and all images are potentially powerful.

Dave Hickey

Fun, Powerful, Issues

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For as soon as the procreative faculty is thwarted and the number of births diminished, the natural struggle for existence which allows only healthy and strong individuals to survive is replaced by a sheer craze to 'save' feeble and even diseased creatures at any cost. And thus the seeds are sown for a human progeny which will become more and more miserable from one generation to another, as long as Nature's will is scorned.

Adolf Hitler

Strong, Struggle, Numbers

Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.152, eKitap Projesi

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The more you give, the more you will get. Then life will become a sheer dance of love.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Giving

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When a skater steps on the ice to compete, the nerves, the tension, and sheer suspense of that moment make for great drama.

Brian Boitano

Drama, Ice, Steps

Brian Boitano, Suzanne Harper, Peggy Fleming (1997). “Boitano's Edge: Inside The Real World Of Figure Skating”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem, I was grieving for the loss of my old barbershop in Manhattan, and wondering at the strangeness of my new one. I didn't have any idea the poem would break into the underworld, opening a deeper subject: the continuing force of the old griefs routine helps to mediate, and my strange, sheer wonder at my own survival. Where's home now? In the contingent present, in which anything can disappear, and where we're sometimes granted some form of grace.

Mark Doty

Grief, Home, Loss

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You really think your life is going to go a certain way sometimes, and then sometimes something amazing happens just out of the sheer generosity and kindness and faith of others and I never anticipated that I would have the chance to make my dreams come true. And you guys have given me that chance. It's about faith and encouragement and I wanna thank you from the bottom of my heart for giving me the trust and the belief that you have. And I hope you trust and believe in yourselves as much as you trust and believe in me.

Hannah Hart

Dream, Encouragement, Kindness

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Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of forgiveness or of pity or of sheer delight at beauty, will do him a lot of good.

Lin Yutang

Animal, Tears, Delight

Lin Yutang (1940). “With Love and Irony”

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We could have a greener economy, even a greener consumer economy by changing the rules - whether it's by taxing carbon or trading carbon, I'm not sure what - but in the end there's just a fundamental problem with the sheer amount we're consuming.

Michael Pollan

Fundamentals, Problem, Economy

Source: therumpus.net

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To go on being an actor, you need sheer animal energy. If you can't restock your energy, you have to hide your lack of it.

Hume Cronyn

Animal, Energy, Needs

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I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film - now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.

Tadanobu Asano

Japan, Other Worlds, Different

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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.

Orson Welles

Ignorance, Equal, Careful

Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.80, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the directors eyes, you get it right does not allow for very much creative freedom... In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater.

Mara Wilson

Fun, Real, Eye

"Former Child Star Mara Wilson: Why I Quit Acting". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2012.

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I'm all about high-waisted pants and skirts, pencil skirts, and sheer, long-sleeves in the summer.

Katerina Graham

Summer, Long, Pants

"Exclusive: The Vampire Diaries' Kat Graham on Heartbreak, The Spice Girls, and Wearing Black in the Summer". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. August 20, 2012.

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To put it one way, a collection of Shakespeare's plays is richer than a phone book that uses the same number of letters; to put it another, the essence of information lies in the relationships among bits, not their sheer number.

Hans Christian von Baeyer

Lying, Book, Play

"Information: The New Language of Science". Book by Hans Christian von Baeyer, 2004.

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I ask you not to judge me for my weakness. The only way I can endure is to be in a place where I will never see you, never be haunted by the possibility of seeing you with him. I need to be somewhere where sheer necessity forces you from my thoughts minute by minute, hour by hour, I cannot do that here.

Joanna Noelle Levesque

Judging, Weakness, Needs

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A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Men, Mad, Humanity

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From the point of view of physics, it is a miracle that [seven million New Yorkers are fed each day] without any control mechanism other than sheer capitalism.

John Henry Holland

Views, Miracle, Each Day

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Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Forever, Mind, Rising

Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole, Gregory R. Johnson, Jonathan S. Rose (2003). “Divine Providence”, p.72, The Swedenborg Foundation

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It was the sheer force of the letters themselves which brought forth the meaning, since the only link between the Sephirot of non-verbal Wisdom and verbal Intelligence was through the letters of the alphabet.

Johanna Drucker

Links, Letters, Alphabet

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People in theatre work harder than anyone in the world - as far as I'm concerned - as far as sheer output of energy and the rigor and excellence that they maintain doing something every day, or twice a day.

Jennifer Westfeldt

Hard Work, People, Excellence

Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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