Sheer Quotes

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What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat… — George Leigh Mallory
Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of… — Carl Linnaeus
Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did… — Michael Crichton
I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize… — Frederick Franck
First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action of the will.… — Swami Vivekananda
You know you're getting old when you buy a sexy sheer nightgown and don't know anyone who can see through it. — Joan Rivers
If you expect anything out of love, or meditation, you will get only frustration, and negative emptiness will happen. If you love for the sheer… — Rajneesh
God is not a person at all. You cannot worship God. You can live in a godly way but you cannot worship God - there… — Rajneesh
There is no greater enjoyment than that of sharing something. Have you given something to somebody? That`s why people enjoy giving gifts so much. It… — Rajneesh
A really spiritual person will live life as an art, will create a deep harmony between the body and the consciousness. And this is the… — Rajneesh
Everybody is born with the capacity to enjoy, but not with the art. People think just because they are alive and they breathe and they… — Rajneesh
Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its… — James C. Collins
The tendency of all strong governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from sheer disbelief… — Unknown Author
If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You… — Fred Saberhagen
Sometimes we forget to be grateful until we survive a trauma. For example, after having the flu when you ache all over, throw up for… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization. — Friedrich Engels
O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
It's the sheer joy of seeing things grow and helping them to grow, even harvesting the stuff that you've grown yourself, no matter how old… — Peter Cundall
Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom... — Alexander McCall Smith
An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds… — H. L. Mencken

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