Barbara Johnson
Author
"Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears."
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Gears
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Bryce Harper
Professional Baseball Player
"I don't have 'gears.' I play one way. That's all I've ever known. I WILL."
Peter Thomas
Voice Actor, Narrator
"Have you ever noticed how people who wear camouflage gear really stand out in a crowd?"
Nicolas Cage
Actor, Producer
"I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear."
Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur
"In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing."
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"It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear."
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"Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?"
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"Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear."
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"Fear is faith in reverse gear."
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"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."
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"If you want to go foraging into the wilds of Canada without proper gear, you deserve what you get, even if that happens to include being attacked by an undead moose."
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"I never considered myself a cowboy, because I wasn`t. But I guess when I got into cowboy gear I looked enough like one to convince people that I was."
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"We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear."
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"It turns out dentists don't like it very much when you show up for a cleaning in full vampire gear."
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"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."
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"I'm a studio guy. That's really what I love the most. I'm so fascinated with audio gear and recording techniques and whatnot, it's pretty mesmerizing."
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"The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again."
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"I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours, we'd take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear."
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"You know, the other day I gave all of my old Angels gear to Goodwill...and Goodwill gave it back."
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"And gears," said Anathema. "My bike didn't have gears. I'm sure my bike didn't have gears." Crowley leaned over to the angel. "Oh lord, heal this bike," he whispered sarcastically. "I'm sorry, I just got carried away," hissed Aziraphale."
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"I've got to play better and contribute more”. You've got to find another gear and come up with big games."
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"The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear."
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"When you're in the studio, you've got a narrative for what goes on, you might switch on a bit of gear and it might not work as you intended or come out a bit wrong, and you try and exploit it."
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"I'm able to shift gears from mom to performer to mom pretty quickly."
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"My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear."
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