Sheer Quotes - Page 18

• No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Men, Reason

  Carl Gustav Jung (1967). “Symbols of transformation: an analysis of the prelude to a case of schizophrenia”

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• Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Years, Boredom

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• The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (2010). “Wof : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi”, p.84, Penguin Books India

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• When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!

  Georges Bernanos

  Laughter, Book, Thinking

  Georges Bernanos, Pamela Morris (1975). “The diary of a country priest”

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• One day you'll understand the sheer awesomeness that is me.

  Dolph Lundgren

  One Day, Awesomeness

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• Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species—including man—crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue.

  Werner Herzog

  Ocean, Men, Land

  Paolo Jedlowski, Roberto De Gaetano, Jacques Rancière, Roberto Esposito, Slavoj Žižek (2016). “CINEMA, THOUGHT, LIFE. Conversations with Fata Morgana”, p.128, Luigi Pellegrini Editore

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• No person is free until he or she is free at the center. When we let go there, we are free indeed. When the self is renounced, then one stands utterly disillusioned, apart, asking for nothing. If anything comes to us, it is all sheer gain. Then life becomes one constant surprise.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Letting Go, Freedom, Self

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• For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.

  Jilly Cooper

  Beautiful, Clever, Men

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• In terms of sheer writing I might have done most of my work by 11. If you get up at 6:30 or 7 you can get a huge amount done by 11 and have the rest of the day off if you want to, though I have to check my accumulating e-mails. No one ever sends me horrible e-mails. Although some of my books are supposed to be hated, no one ever tells me.

  Melvin Burgess

  Book, Writing, Mail

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• Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.

  Simon Baker

  Television, Sometimes, Grind

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

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• Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.

  George Crumb

  Diversity, Tasks, Resources

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• I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Believe, Next Day, One Day

  "Poetry Questions: Stephen Dobyns" by Rebecca Foresman, www.newyorker.com. April 2, 2012.

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• Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Holocaust, Fields, Study

  "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering". Book by Norman Finkelstein, 2000.

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• Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did!

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

  Directors, Hollywood, Stories

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• I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But now I think that's sheer lunacy. Writing weighs so much less, in the great cosmic equation, than living.

  Nicole Krauss

  Writing, Thinking, Choices

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• I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.

  Takeshi Kitano

  People, Giving, Joy

  "Art beat: Takeshi Kitano takes over Paris" by Takeshi Kitano, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2010.

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• I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.

  Martha Reeves

  Light, Average, Mad

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• I would have to say the most challenging thing about directing is the sheer stamina because... as a director, you're always doing something. Someone always needs to talk to you. There are always decisions to be made and every day for as long as the movie goes on. So it's a marathon... You don't have to look nice, but it's all day every day.

  Michael Urie

  Nice, Long, Decision

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• Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.

  Michel Faber

  Thinking, Kind, Corny

  Michel Faber (2014). “The Book of Strange New Things”, p.100, Canongate Books

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• Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it individual interest, now everything is turned out to such a perfection of deadness that one is driven to pick up and collect, in sheer desperation, the commonest rubbish still surviving from the earlier periods.

  Harold Speed

  Perfection, Rubbish, Advent

  Harold Speed (2012). “The Practice and Science of Drawing”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• When I got this saxophone, it became a religion. There wasn't TV, there wasn't much money, and there was just a real dedication.... I never thought of it as an art. It was just work that I loved. Not just work, but work that I loved. I loved it so much, I would play it if nobody listened to it. Any jazz musician, if there's nobody around to listen, would play just for the sheer joy of improvising music.

  Stan Getz

  Art, Real, Dedication

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• In a modern world, increasingly filled with pop culture fads and gimmicks, Lisa Morton reveals much of the underbelly history and unknown facts regarding the biggest pop culture event in history-Halloween. Her sheer delight and well-researched enthusiasm in tackling many of the unrecognized aspects of this monstrous topic makes one wonder what we don't know about everything else that should be as commonplace to our psyche as a bag of candy.

  Del Howison

  Halloween, Topics, Gimmicks

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• People actually ask me why I bring in projects on budget and on time. It seems I am not living up to the fashionable genius role. I really enjoy when a project gets down to the wire, and through sheer force of will and faith in our process, we cross the goal line, when most people thought it impossible.

  Curtis W. Fentress

  People, Goal, Wire

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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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• 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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