Gears Quotes - Page 8

• We're far from having too much horsepower...my definition of too much horsepower is when all four wheels are spinning in every gear.

  Mark Donohue

  Four, Definitions, Too Much

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• I don't have 'gears.' I play one way. That's all I've ever known. I WILL.

  Bryce Harper

  Play, Way, Known

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• Formula One is a mind game, no question. You have to think so hard sometimes smoke comes out your ears! And if you don't keep your head in gear the car will overtake you

  Mika Hakkinen

  Thinking, Games, Car

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• Live every day as if the Son of Man were at the door, and gear your thinking to the fleeting moment. Just how can it be redeemed? Walk as if the next step would carry you across the threshold of Heaven. Pray. That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.

  Jim Elliot

  Son, Men, Thinking

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• At times, in medicine, you feel you are inside a colossal and impossibly complex machine whose gears will turn for you only according to their own arbitrary rhythm. The notion that human caring, the effort to do better for people, might make a difference can seem hopelessly naive. But it isn't.

  Atul Gawande

  Caring, Medicine, Differences

  Atul Gawande (2010). “Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance”, p.10, Profile Books

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• As some species of plants need to be burned to the ground in order for them to later flourish, I needed to have my ass handed to be in order to get it into gear for the upcoming Sydney Olmpics. Now, I'm on a mission.

  Xeno Muller

  Order, Needs, Rowing

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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.

  Adam Young

  Guy, Technique, Audio

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• If we were magically shrunk and put into someone's brain while she was thinking, we would see all the pumps, pistons, gears and levers working away and we would be able to describe the workings completely, in mechanical terms, thereby completely describing the thought processes of the brain. But that description would not contain any mention of thought! It would contain nothing but descriptions of pumps, pistons, levers!

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Thinking, Brain, Would Be

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• This is a great opportunity for gear heads to celebrate the holiday, show off their hot rods and visit the aquarium.

  Dick Miller

  Holiday, Opportunity, Aquariums

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• Sometimes the best gear for a climb is a good excuse.

  John Sherman

  Climbing, Sometimes, Excuse

  John Sherman (2012). “Sherman Exposed: Slightly Censored Climbing Stories”, p.79, The Mountaineers Books

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• Gear is the least important part of the equation. Having a vision and being able to articulate an idea visually are much more important.

  Paul Nicklen

  Ideas, Vision, Important

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• 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

  Special, Trials, Today

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• But cancer can also be fun with its luncheons, theatre parties, and fund raising luaus. ...What will they all do if a cure comes out of it? Considering how easily the March of Dimes conglomerate shifted gears after the polio vaccine, it should pose no problem.

  Edgar Berman

  Fun, Cancer, Party

  Edgar Berman (1976). “The solid gold stethoscope”

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• The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of the country would be thrown out of gear. Before the era of steam-engines, windmills were tried for draining mines; but though they were powerful machines, they were very irregular, so that in a long tract of calm weather the mines were drowned, and all the workmen thrown idle.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Country, Powerful, Wind

  William Stanley Jevons (1866). “The coal question: an enquiry concerning the progress of the Nation, and the probable exhaustion of our coal-mines”, p.144

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• It's wonderful for the players. It's a huge challenge and a huge responsibility for us to get our act together, get our butts in gear. Phil isn't going to bail us out because of our mental lapses.

  Kobe Bryant

  Responsibility, Player, Challenges

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• We've seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like there's an occupying force, as opposed to a force that's part of the community that's protecting them and serving them.

  Barack Obama

  Giving, People, Community

  Barack Obama's remarks on Community Policing at the Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center in Camden, New Jersey, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 18, 2015.

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• I've learned that by returning my calls between 11:00 a.m. and noon and 4:00 and 5:00 p.m. I can keep them short and to the point because people are either hungry and starting to think about lunch or they are trying to gear down at the end of the day.

  Geri Larkin

  Thinking, Lunch, People

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• Plantinga has written a short, 5 page summary of his views on evolution and naturalism, and it’s lucid (for Plantinga) and goes straight to his main points. The workings of the man's mind sit there naked and exposed, and all the stripped gears and misaligned cogs and broken engines of his misperception are there for easy examination. Read it, and you'll wonder how a man so confused could have acquired such a high reputation; you might even think that philosophy has been Sokaled.

  PZ Myers

  Philosophy, Confused, Men

  "Alvin Plantinga Gives Philosophy a Bad Name". Personal blog, freethoughtblogs.com. May 29, 2009.

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• Thanks to the FedDev Ontario funding we were able to get a number of key initiatives underway to mitigate the potential negative economic impact of the Heinz closure. With this additional funding we will continue to be in high gear within the food processing sector to continue with business retention, expansion and attraction activities in the Windsor-Essex region.

  Sandra Pupatello

  Numbers, Impact, Keys

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• Jeb Bush is getting his presidential campaign in gear. Last week he said he supports a path to citizenship for immigrants. He said, 'I believe in an America where hard work and dedication can lead to any job that your brother and dad once had.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Brother, Jobs, Dad

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• You know, the other day I gave all of my old Angels gear to Goodwill...and Goodwill gave it back.

  Chili Davis

  Angel, Yankees, Goodwill

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• OK, they fire the puck from the blue line. Chief usually yelling 'block the shot' at the defensemen. They doesn't have the goalie gear, but they have to block the shot. So who is more crazy, me or the defensemen? Who is more weird?

  Ilya Bryzgalov

  Block, Crazy, Hockey

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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.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mean, Years, Stories

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!

  Twyla Tharp

  Thinking, Done, Exhausted

  "A Conversation With Choreographer Twyla Tharp". Interview with Daviv Shenk, www.theatlantic.com. February 26, 2010.

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• Good. Now the first thing you do is press in the clutch and slide the gear into reverse." She placed his hand on the gear shift in the center of her car, and showed him how to move it up and down. "You know, you really shouldn't fondle that in front of me, Grace. It's cruel." "Julian! Do you mind? I'm only trying to show you how to shift my gears." He snorted. "I wish you'd shift my gears like that.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Moving, Hands, Car

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