Shear Quotes

#1. People caused harm to others because they were of malevolent disposition, that was shear human wickedness. something that has always existed and always would.Some people it seemed derived pleasure from inflicting suffering on others ...

Alexander McCall Smith

#2. You can shear a sheep many times, but skin him only once.

Mike McDermott

#3. In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

Robert Herrick

#4. You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once.

Amarillo Slim

#5. We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport. I also think we need to look at the shear fatness of the regulations which control people who want to help kids play sport.

Boris Johnson

#6. To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it!

Tiberius

#7. It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

Tiberius

#8. But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan's great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat. Whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris's bowie knife plunged into the heart.

Bram Stoker

#9. In its power, clarity and shear beauty, Mack Bailey's voice reminds me of no one more than my friend, the late John Denver. I love to hear this man sing.

Tom Paxton

#10. You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#11. I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

Robert Plant

#12. Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin. Wait till you come to Forty Year.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#13. The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.

Jules Shear

#14. The instant they say something you don't expect or already know, you should drop into detective mode.

Emmett Shear

#15. I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.

Jules Shear

#16. I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.

Jules Shear

#17. I'm always impressed by how compassionate the gaming community can be when they have a cause and appreciate that they leverage our platform to raise money for those in need. We continue to encourage giving in support of important causes, including Extra Life 2012.

Emmett Shear

#18. Who you talk to is just as important as what questions you ask and what you pull away from it.

Emmett Shear

#19. I love to get people to sing and play together.

Jules Shear

#20. Great intimates conform to you ... not you to them

Rhonda Shear

#21. I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.

Jules Shear

#22. Our app for Xbox 360 brings Twitch video to the television and into the living room of millions of Xbox Live members for the first time. The app will let every Xbox Live gamer find and watch streams of their favorite games from their couch.

Emmett Shear

#23. People who are using your product and putting up with all these issues, means that they are not actually the biggest problems.

Emmett Shear

#24. The most interesting things you learn in an interviews come from the: 'interesting', 'tell me more'

Emmett Shear

#25. Doing this James Brown thing for the last couple of days has been ideal. But it's a different kind of fun.

Jules Shear

#26. Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?

Jules Shear

#27. A goal of Twitch is to be wherever gamers are, whether it's on laptops and handheld devices or integrated into gaming consoles and software.

Emmett Shear

#28. The pool of people you care about is going to shift over time.

Emmett Shear

#29. Users think they know what they want, but you get the horseless carriage effect where you're getting asked for a faster horse.

Emmett Shear

#30. I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

Jules Shear

#31. Everyone has at least one story that will stop your heart.

Claudia Shear

#32. Most startups are not just built for the person who is using them. When you do that, every now and then you get really lucky and ... are representative of some huge class of people who all want the same thing you do ... but very often that just turns into a side project that doesn't go anywhere.

Emmett Shear

#33. The other mistake I think people make is talking to who's available rather than talking to who they need to talk to.

Emmett Shear

#34. Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.

Jules Shear

#35. The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

Jules Shear

#36. Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy.

Jules Shear

#37. Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.
[Reviewing A Feminist Dictionary by Cheris Kramarae and Paula A Treichler in New Directions for Women (1986)]

Marie Shear

#38. Fashion absolutely matters, but it doesn't matter absolutely.

Claudia Shear

#39. The one question you can't ask is, is this feature actually good or not?

Emmett Shear

#40. I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.

Jules Shear

#41. I made this record without a record label.

Jules Shear

#42. I'll tell you the truth, everything you hear is a lie.

Jeff Shear

#43. I wasn't really eight anymore. The day you know danger and fear, and know that you are alone, is the day you grow, if not up, then old.

Claudia Shear

#44. The Twitch community loves watching video games, chatting, and broadcasting. The average viewer watches over an hour and a half of video each day. Over two-thirds of our logged-in users chat each day.

Emmett Shear

#45. Sales is this cure all for this problem. Get people to give you their credit card and I guarantee you they're actually interested.

Emmett Shear

#46. Given the growing popularity of pop culture conventions, many of them are selling out, leaving a lot of fans out in the dark and having to trawl the Internet for bits and pieces of news that relate to these events.

Emmett Shear

#47. I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

Jules Shear

#48. I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.

Jules Shear

#49. The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.

Jules Shear

#50. I wish I could tell you the recipe for figuring out who the target user is for your product and who your users should be, but ... there isn't a recipe. It comes down to think really hard and use your judgement to figure out who you're really building this for.

Emmett Shear

#51. Behind every great woman is a great behind!

Rhonda Shear

#52. I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.

Jules Shear

#53. I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book me.

Jules Shear

#54. Most of us would kill ourselves if we were as talent-free as Elizabeth Hurley.

Claudia Shear

#55. I'm not really getting too involved. My position is, Here's the record. I'm at your disposal.

Jules Shear

#56. The question is, once you have this idea, is this enough? Is it something people would actually switch just to have?

Emmett Shear

#57. People don't come to Asheville very often, and they don't know I'm there. I enjoy it. I like it.

Jules Shear

#58. Given the huge number Xbox owners and how many of them love gaming spectatorship, it's a natural fit to bring the Twitch experience to the 360.

Emmett Shear

#59. You want to learn about what's already in their heads. You want to avoid putting things there.

Emmett Shear

#60. If you just talk to who's easy to talk to, you're not really getting the best data.

Emmett Shear

#61. It's one of the most validating things you can do for a product is go out there and get them to commit to pay you up front.

Emmett Shear

#62. Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

Jules Shear

#63. That's actually one of the most disappointing things about doing user interviews and user feedback, which is why I think ... people don't do it. You're going to get negative news about your favorite pet feature most of the time.

Emmett Shear

#64. It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it.

Jules Shear

#65. Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.

Jules Shear

#66. I preyed on this sort of thing, discontentment, a clash of passions among the rivals, and the zealots. Open sores opened secrets. That's how I roll."
Jackson Guild, The Trinity Conspiracy, Betrayal at Black Mesa

Jeff Shear

#67. Recording interviews is like magic. a) It stops you from taking notes in the middle and b) you can play that recording for people.

Emmett Shear

#68. People don't like silence, so they'll keep talking to fill the void.

Emmett Shear

#69. You talk to people who serve you the food the same way you talk to the people you eat the food with. You talk to people who work for you the same way you talk to the people you work for. It's a one-size-fits-all proposition.

Claudia Shear

#70. A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it.

Jules Shear

#71. Of course, to be truly 'surveillance free' required unpredictability or its cousin, spontaneity.

Jeff Shear

#72. The crucial people to get your product started for the first 6 months are not who will be using it 3 years later.

Emmett Shear

#73. Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift.

Jules Shear

#74. Twitch launched in June of 2011, and our growth ever since has exceeded even my expectations, which were not small. A year and a half later, the community of broadcasters and viewers has multiplied hundreds of percent.

Emmett Shear

#75. Who would you talk to? That is the first question for almost any startup that you need to answer. Who is my user and where am I going to find them?

Emmett Shear

#76. Things kind of happen organically with me.

Jules Shear

#77. You have this idea that you think is awesome. You want to have that broadest group you possibly can. You don't want to just talk to 1 type of person and learn that, you want to get familiar with the space.

Emmett Shear

#78. There's no bigger gaming franchise on the console than 'Call of Duty', and we can't wait to see what the community can create with this new tool.

Emmett Shear

#79. The most common mistakes are showing people your product- don't show them your product, it's sort of like telling them bout a feature.

Emmett Shear

#80. If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like.

Jules Shear

#81. Crashing from love is worse than crashing from pot, or LSD, or going cold turkey from heroin. Nobody should be allowed to do love. Love should be illegal.

Doug Shear

#82. You could put this record on and not get jarred half-way through. I wanted it to be all cut from one cloth, and that was the way we took it through the whole production process.

Jules Shear