26 Gears Quotes for You to Enjoy

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. Charles M. Schulz

Life Bicycle Speed Gears Ten Never Like Most Us Use

Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears. Charles Duhigg

You Once Gears Components Habit Break Fiddle

I like switching gears. I'm kind of a chameleon. Adam Schlesinger

Kind Gears Like Switching Chameleon

I don't ever consciously change gears when I play jazz or classical. It's all music. Andre Previn

Music Change Jazz Gears Classical Ever Play

I'm fearless when it comes to engineering and motors and gears and pulleys and glass and artwork. Douglas Trumbull

Engineering Gears Fearless Glass Motors Artwork

Shifting gears from my journalistic work to bakery life allows me to step away and see things from a different perspective. Some of my most creative ideas or biggest aha moments have come when I was immersed in one job while thinking about the other from a slightly removed point of view. Elizabeth Chambers

Life Work Me Creative Perspective Job Shifting Thinking Other Slightly Immersed Gears See Some About Point Point Of View Step Journalistic Come Ideas Most Bakery Different Biggest While View Different Perspective Moments Away Things

When a director shifts gears as often as does Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, the man behind the emotionally rich debut film 'Amores Perros,' you may wonder if he knows what he wants. Elvis Mitchell

You Man Director Rich Gears Emotionally He Knows Does Shifts Wonder Debut May Often Behind Wants Film

I like to work on a number of things simultaneously. If you're working on a variety of projects and if you get stuck on one of them, you can move to another without grinding your gears indefinitely. Eric Maskin

Work You Projects Indefinitely Gears Variety Stuck Simultaneously Like Another Without Get Move Them Grinding Working Your Things Number

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

Me You Jokes You Can Do It Better Will Stage Club Bit Thousand Thousand Times Gears Onstage Had New Go Brain Times Than Stolen Turn Create Turning Next Whole Start

You hit a wall at some stage when you don't want it so bad, but you don't know when that's going to be - as far as competition or as far as health is concerned. Sometimes it's just natural. You just taste it, and you want it so bad that you find other gears. John McEnroe

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

Our system is dynamic, always shifting gears. What I do is I build models to beat the market. Louis Navellier

Build Shifting Market Our System Gears Beat Always Models Dynamic

In the 1880s, women were decades away from earning the right to vote. Few owned property - if they were even permitted to do so. In addition to childcare obligations, many toiled in work that was either underpaid or not paid at all. Essentially, the gears of progress for women were moving slowly in just about every arena of life. Mary Pilon

Life Work Property Vote Obligations Women Progress Few Every Addition Earning Gears Slowly About Arena Underpaid Permitted Were Decades Owned Childcare Essentially Just Either Moving Paid Many Even Away Right

I was a bicycle messenger when Alkaline Trio was formed as a way to make ends meet before the band became a career, and I've just always been a cyclist - I BMX'd, and then I got really into - through messengering - I got really into road bikes and fixed gears, which I still have. Matt Skiba

Bicycle Before Band Meet Way Gears Trio Through Road Make Messenger Became Always Got Still Been Fixed Just Ends Which Formed Bikes Then Really Cyclist Career

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

Change Win Try Aggressive Speed Gears See Up Very Going

That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears. Ridley Scott

Gears Part Policy Keep Switching

Richard Leacock and I ran into a guy who knew how to carve up a camera, and we had him carve one up for us. We had him chop it down and change the gears from metal to plastic, which would cut down on the sound it made when it was running. Robert Drew

Change Made Down Ran Would Running Gears Carve Guy Had Knew Him Metal How Sound Camera Up Which Cut Richard Us Chop Who Plastic

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

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I don't just want to be another cog in the gears of Hollywood. Scott Porter

Gears Another Just Want Hollywood Cog

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

Me You Experience Natural Try First Difficult Enough Worse Insane Out Gears Give Perfect House Does Repair Go Ulcer Shift Author Either Titles Then Really Pop Hard Agree Publishing Publishing House Thinks Stressful

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

Stupidity Old Sky Long Past Changes Late Kind Gears Stays Perfect Writ Wrong Wrong Kind Becomes Same Going In The Past Story Hollywood Across Harbor Old Story Large Pearl Pearl Harbor

One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire. Zubin Mehta

Change Gears Concert Within Learns How Repertoire

Prince, you never knew what to expect from him from one album to the next. Miles Davis was like that. You know, once you get used to one style, boom, he switched it and, you know, switched gears on you. So those artists are very exciting to me, very exciting to follow their path, you know, and their journey. D'Angelo

Journey Me You Path Style Once Boom Those Gears Follow Davis Never He Knew Exciting Like Prince Know Him Very Expect Get Artists Next Miles Used Miles Davis Switched Album

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