#sheer

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern. ↗

— Henry Miller

#critic #done #drop #fruits #general

I can't speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a score by sheer luck, you can't do it constantly, unless you're willing to put the resources in. ↗

— Merton Miller

#believe #constantly #course #economists #i

So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#guts #just #many #need #preparation

If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement. ↗

— David Remnick

#change #deeper #degrees #enormous #enough

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror. ↗

— Pappy Boyington

#few #flying #hours #seconds #sheer

I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates. ↗

— Brad Delson

#fellow #i #ingenuity #inspired #intelligence

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends. ↗

— Philip Roth

#closest friends #deadly #friends #seriousness #sheer

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 have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#ask #determination #i #ingredients #luck

It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous. ↗

— Robert Shea

#computer #creativity #decline #fun #idealism

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#catholic #desperation #go #heaven #heretic