Top 24 Shift Gears Quotes
#1. 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
#2. From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.
Haruki Murakami
#3. What has always been most interesting about acting to me personally is that it affords you the chance to shift gears, both in terms of the experiences you get to have through doing it, but also the different kinds of things you get to represent.
Edward Norton
#4. 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
#5. Men can shift gears from romantic to practical - and so can the bitch.
Sherry Argov
#6. I grew up in the South but I started dancing in my twenties when I got out of the Air Force, and studying dance, you're surrounded by gay guys all the time. You get to know them and you have to shift gears!
Morgan Freeman
#7. I'm able to shift gears from mom to performer to mom pretty quickly.
Faith Hill
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively.
Guy Claxton
#12. People.. especially people in positions of power.. have invested a tremendous amount of effort and time to get to where they are. They really don't want to hear that we're on the wrong path, that we've got to shift gears and start thinking differently.
David Suzuki
#13. 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
#14. Challenge quandary thinking, either/or thinking come by moving from the abstract to the concrete. What can we do with the choice actually in front of us?
Sherry Turkle
#15. When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.
Wanda Koop
#16. My sweet Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hare krishna.
George Harrison
#17. Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost!
Henry James
#18. What was that World War I saying, "Trust the Lord and pass the ammo"? For me, trust the doctors and the Lord and pass the Velcade, Revlimid, dexamethasone.
Tom Brokaw
#19. Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.
Niklas Zennstrom
#20. If "RACE" becomes the norm, then harmony will not prevail.
Henry Johnson Jr
#21. 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
#22. We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
May Sarton
#24. It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.
Christopher Fry
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