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That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears. -- Ridley Scott
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. -- Charles M. Schulz
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. -- Barbara Johnson
You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you. -- Leontyne Price
Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair. -- Annie Dillard
If you go back and look at the early promos for Gears 1, you'll see just how different the characters were from the actual first game, both in appearance and background. And it's an evolutionary process. -- Karen Traviss
Gears of War: Exile was an unannounced game that I can't give any details about that has since been cancelled. -- Cliff Bleszinski
He lives with his creativity in high gear. -- John Travolta
I have one speed, I have one gear: go! -- Charlie Sheen
One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire. -- Zubin Mehta
I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear. -- Tony Blair
Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear. -- Bill Gothard
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear. -- William Shakespeare
I don't just want to be another cog in the gears of Hollywood. -- Scott Porter
I'm able to shift gears from mom to performer to mom pretty quickly. -- Faith Hill
Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears. -- Charles Duhigg
Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? -- Jack London
Our system is dynamic, always shifting gears. What I do is I build models to beat the market. -- Louis Navellier
We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win. -- Rafael Nadal
So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear! -- Nigel Dennis
My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up. -- Richie Benaud
To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up. -- Ralph Bunche
The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer. -- Tom T. Hall
I find I'm the sort of harried working mother who has difficulty scheduling in a bit of rest amid the Ptolemaically complicated interlocking gears of professional and personal life. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears. -- Jeanne Tripplehorn
I think there is a special bond between Carolina athletes. A lot of people seem to wear our gear because it is fashionable. They love the colors. It's Michael Jordan's school! -- Lorrie Fair
The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand. -- Juan Manuel Fangio
I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine. -- Billy Sherwood
A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition. -- Anatoli Boukreev
There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work. -- James Iha
I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using. -- Donna Mills
I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck. -- Ron Perlman
As long as 'Pearl Harbor' stays in the past, it's perfect; when it wretchedly changes gears in the late going, it becomes the wrong kind of same old story: Hollywood stupidity and callowness, writ large across the sky. -- Stephen Hunter
The Obama administration rarely demonstrated the ability to shift gears and change policy in its first year. Even in the face of historic events such as the continuing demonstrations against Iran's regime, it stuck devotedly to prior plans. -- Elliott Abrams
We haven't played that many of them because all our gear was over here waiting for us when we could get here. So we didn't get to rehearse any of the new stuff, so we have planned to play 3 or 4 new ones. -- Kerry King
It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears. -- Lee Ann Womack
If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task. -- Karin Slaughter
People talk about games and loneliness - it's a lonely activity. I didn't understand that. 'Gears of War' was the first multiplayer game for me that I enjoyed. But I wasn't sad. I liked being alone. I liked playing games by myself. I had lots of companionship at the house. -- Tim Schafer
I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the '50's. -- Brian Setzer
Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve. -- Tom Wolfe
The way you really find out about the performer's seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned off. You see a lot of celebrities switch gears. They go from the environment to animal rights to obesity or whatever. That I don't have a lot of respect for. -- Robert Redford
When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn. -- Daniel Handler
I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit. -- J. B. Smoove
For me, titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer. If they don't pop out perfect on the first try, they can be really hard to repair. Or, worse, if the author thinks they pop out perfect, but the publishing house does not agree, it's difficult to shift gears. And then? Then you go insane. -- Sloane Crosley
When you look at every studio in the '20s or '30s, from Louis B. Mayer to Jack Warner, you see people who started with one plan and quickly shifted gears to adapt to a changing world. One of my favorite stories is that Walt Disney mortgaged his house to make 'Snow White.' He saw there was a real opportunity to change the world. -- Ryan Kavanaugh
Horror allowed me to quickly switch gears. -- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Chelsea look like they've got a couple more gears left in the locker. -- Ron Atkinson
Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively. -- Guy Claxton
You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time. -- Erin Morgenstern
I don't have 'gears.' I play one way. That's all I've ever known. I WILL. -- Bryce Harper
Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos. -- Scott Westerfeld
As dull as Nate Gray is," Will said, "his head is not actually filled with gears, Henry. He's a human. -- Cassandra Clare
We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up. -- Ian McDonald
Humankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalization. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique 'insights' happen in the dark. -- Allison Mackie
Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill. -- Peter Travers
You've always got to have a plan B. You've got to be able to shift gears and find a new course of action. -- Joe Teti
What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate -- Seymour Papert
Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner. -- Sam Abell
Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine. -- George H. W. Bush
When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going. -- Nido R Qubein
Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep the gears of society pointlessly turning. -- Blaise Cendrars
I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears; and caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts; and buckled with a smile Mausers and Colts; and rusted every bayonet with His tears. -- Wilfred Owen
I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write. -- Erica Jong
I had what I would consider a normal upbringing and, which to me, a normal American up - upbringing for an American male child almost gears you towards going into the military. -- Peter P. Mahoney
The demand that women "return to femininity" is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to a fabled time when everyone was richer, younger, more powerful. -- Susan Faludi
If I were to imagine myself as an idler wheel inside some big mix of gears, then I would be connected to everything. It's not like there's just me and then nothing. -- Fiona Apple
Globalization has taken a hit in that there is some sand in the gears because most of us have supply chains that are all over the world that we've had to lengthen. --
I was not using the gears I usually do for time trials - it was either hard [gear] to pedal, or really low [gear] to pedal; [that] was something special of today. -- Fabian Cancellara
The buddah can reside in the gears of a motorcycle as easily as in a flower on a mountaintop. To believe otherwise is to demean the buddah; which is to demean one's self. -- Robert M. Pirsig
You can't just suddenly change gears and reverse yourself or go to the left or the right because there is no left or right. There's always a certain direction that you're moving in. -- Robert Barry
Coincidences happen, but I've come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or behind it), a great machine is ticking and turning its fabulous gears. -- Stephen King
On My First Driving Lesson "First things first: A car has five gears. What is that smell?"¦Okay, first thing before that first thing: Farting in a car that's not moving makes you an asshole. -- Justin Halpern
Hate is never an option for a truth seeker. It binds, stifles, constipates and causes the gears of philosophical progress to come to a grinding halt. From Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather - an ebook -- Robert Gately
I've always had a fondness for that satirical, Terry Gilliam - esque evil corporate megastructure, the kind of business that hangs banners that say making your life better as it throws kittens into the gears. -- Chris Hardwick

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