Sheer Quotes - Page 20

• I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of Björn Türoque, the world's perennial second-place air guitar champion. Whoever this Dan Crane might be, he's captured the mad, seductive spirit of the arbitrary skill contest perfectly, and rocks it hard into the hot Finnish night. There is no number of umlauts that do this Jekyll and Hyde of air-rocking justice.

  John Hodgman

  Perseverance, Player, Night

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• I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful as disenchantment than enchantment.

  Robert Hass

  Thinking, Reinforcement, Enchantment

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• Success is better than failure; an attempt is a better attempt, it is better as an attempt, if competent than if incompetent; and it is better to succeed through competence - aptly - than through sheer luck.

  Ernest Sosa

  Luck, Succeed, Competence

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Sheer obstinacy is very very important for anybody who wants to create.

  Wayne White

  Important, Want, Obstinacy

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• You're not chasing syndication any more. It used to be a big thing. "Let's make 100 episodes and we'll get paid for life". You know? And what does the sheer amount of content that's being made do to syndication after a while? It just seems like there's more content than there is hours for everyone to watch it. But it's some of the best content that's ever been created.

  Bill Burr

  Doe, Watches, Hours

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• If ever there's been somebody to hold as an icon of sheer determination and willpower, it's that guy [Stephen Hawking ], let alone any of the things he's done scientifically. I'm sure that's his driving force, but he's a miracle and an aspiration.

  Kate Bush

  Determination, Icons, Miracle

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Sometimes, when I was really loaded, I'd sit on the floor and sort out every nut and bolt in the house. It was just sheer insanity. And often there'd be speed in the cut, so I was a speed freak, too.

  George Carlin

  Cutting, Nuts, Insanity

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• I think the sheer attrition of American global domination will create circumstances in which the Chinese will be tempted to reach out for more influence, including in regions in which we have special interests, such as the Middle East, from which they already obtain a great deal of their energy. And that region will be seeking some new superpower patron.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Thinking, Chinese, Special

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Perhaps the only thing that saves science from invalid conventional wisdom that becomes effectively permanent is the presence of mavericks in every generation - people who keep challenging convention and thinking up new ideas for the sheer hell of it or from an innate contrariness.

  David M. Raup

  Wisdom, Science, Thinking

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• I really feel like there's a void in this world for music that acknowledges that spiritual aspect of these activities as well as just the sheer physicality of them.

  Taraka Larson

  Spiritual, World, Void

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important choices we will ever make, and it determines the course of our lives from that moment forward. The choice is this: Will we interpret this loss as so unjust, unfair, and devastating that we feel punished, angry, forever and fatally wounded-- or, as our heart, torn apart, bleeds its anguish of sheer, wordless grief, will we somehow feel this loss as an opportunity to become more tender, more open, more passionately alive, more grateful for what remains?

  Wayne Muller

  Death, Powerful, Grief

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• The fragile art of existenceIs kept alive by sheer persistenceThe fragile art of existence.No time for self-pityNo time for dwelling on what should have beenBut is yet to be.

  Chuck Schuldiner

  Art, Dwelling, Self

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• You dont make music for immortality you make music for the moment of capturing the sheer joy of being alive on planet earth, WOW! is this fun... this is just the greatest everybody should live it that way.

  Ray Manzarek

  Fun, Joy, Alive

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• You still get the sheer quality coming through but you're covered.

  Anna Sui

  Quality, Covered, Stills

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• I wanted to be strong when I went back to Persuasion. Strong and beautiful and totally together. I dreamed of the day I’d get to rub all your faces in my sheer awesomeness.

  Susan Donovan

  Beautiful, Strong, Together

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• It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand hardship. Much more significant is their inner development. And while some may be able to survive through sheer willpower, the ones who suffer the least are those who have a high degree of patience and courage in the face of adversity.

  Dalai Lama

  Adversity, Suffering, Degrees

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• The principle of [divine] purpose... stares the biologist in the face wherever he looks... The probability for such an event as the origin of DNA molecules to have occurred by sheer chance is just too small to be seriously considered.

  Ernst Boris Chain

  Dna, Faces, Principles

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• The sheer magnitude of Speaker Pelosis spending spree is mind boggling. Most of us do not use the number 1,000,000,000,000 in our daily lives, so it is difficult to attach tangible value to the figure.

  Geoff Davis

  Numbers, Mind, Use

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• Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure which the ideas seem to circulate around. I think it is important to somehow push or stretch or emphasize, in as many ways as I can, the sheer bulk, shape, heaviness, the juices, the actual structure of the body. Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

  Peter Greenaway

  Artist, Thinking, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the many things I love about bound books is their sheer physicality. Electronic books live out of sight and out of mind. But printed books have body, presence. Sure, sometimes they'll elude you by hiding in improbable places... But at other times they'll confront you, and you'll literally stumble over some tomes you hadn't thought about in weeks or years. I often seek electronic books, but they never come after me. They may make me feel, but I can't feel them. They are all soul with no flesh, no texture, and no weight. They can get in your head but can't whack you upside it.

  Will Schwalbe

  Book, Elude You, Sight

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.40, Vintage

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• Part of the magic of the experience lay in the sheer beauty of the setting: the breathtaking sight of the high mountains, the sweep of the sky, the panorama of the great valley. The beauty drives you out of the self for a moment - so that for this time, the self is not.

  Joseph Jaworski

  Motivational, Sky, Sight

  Joseph Jaworski (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.103, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Once we see more of our need and understand more of what Christ has done for us, he will become more precious to us. And this, in turn, will enable our obedience far more than sheer grunt effort.

  Mark Dever

  Effort, Needs, Done

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Lying, Eye

  "On the Jews and Their Lies". Book by Martin Luther, 1543.

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• True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.

  Ralph Adams Cram

  Numbers, Modern Life, Weight

  RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

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• In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Book, Spirit, Proust

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