The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.
The only thing left that shows I was a heart patient is I have a scar down the middle of my chest where they went in three times to do open heart surgery. I have a brand new heart inside, and all the mechanical and electronic gear and so forth is all gone.
My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what’s on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.
Predominantly I’m an Adidas guy who walks around in sports gear all the time because there’s always a ball right next to me somewhere. I do a lot of sports, but I do enjoy wearing a lot of suits.
I wanted to feel that precision and control and then try to apply it to tele. That’s what I’ve looked for in my gear development through the years, and today, tele is very precise, very high-performance.
Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies – where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.
Everything’s challenging for me, singing-wise. I’m like an old truck with one gear left on it.
The DS was launched back in 2004, and sales of that machine hit a record in 2009 in the United States. That is totally different from the conventional sales pattern, in which game gear sales peak in the third year and take a downturn thereafter.
When I was in a band after high school and in college, I didn’t even play the guitar. I played the bass because I couldn’t play lead, and I didn’t have the gear.
I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn’t a conscious thing. I didn’t consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day.
I played Simone, the French tutor for the daughter of a rich Manhattan couple, who goes to a costume ball as Marie Antoinette. While everyone else in ‘CSI’ races around in police gear, I had to wear a ballgown and bustle and two wigs. It was very heavy on the make-up side.
I wouldn’t say I really admired anyone. When I was a kid, there were definitely a lot of tough guys, but they weren’t really cool. If anything, that was an influence on me: to take that toughness and combine it with the cool style, the cool entrance, the cool gear – and driving to work in a Ferrari.
I worked with a skateboarding instructor for three hours every day. We would go to the park and do ramps. I had to wear a ridiculous amount of gear – elbow pads, knee pads, every kind of pad, plus a helmet – to stop myself from getting hurt.
The man that’s out to do something has to keep in high gear all the time.
While I’m driving, I’ve got speed, gear, lap time, water temperature, blood sugar, RPM, oil pressure. I’ve got car data and body data all together. It’s all on the dash.
As a BBC broadcaster, I really do hope that the new incarnation of ‘Top Gear’ with Chris Evans does well.
There were days I’d wrestle at 9 o’clock, and afterward, I often didn’t shower and would just throw on sweatpants. I had my police gear in the car and would rush to get to the station by 10:30, clean myself off as best I could, and be ready for my shift by 10:59.
I always like to think that I make movies that are like Nirvana songs. They have a slow verse, and then they pop into high gear, and then they go back into slow, and then they pop into high gear again.
The majority of the time, I’m just in my team training clothes or work-out gear, but whenever I’m killing time, I always like to watch ‘Project Runway’ or ‘America’s Next Top Model.’
I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn’t until I got to college that I said, ‘Oh! This is what it’s all about.’ And then I became an A student. I studied journalism in college and that’s what really kicked it into high gear for me.
During the week, my days are consumed with school commitments, play-dates and work for Baby Buggy, a nonprofit I started, which collects kids’ gear for parents in need. So on weekends, I look forward to uninterrupted time with my family.
If you’re sitting around and doing Chekhov and the cat walks in, you must pay attention to the cat. You cannot continue the dialogue of Chekhov without including the cat. So on live television, we’d automatically go into ad-lib gear.
We call chemistry the ‘c’ word on ‘Top Gear,’ and you can’t fake that, can you?
Of course, when you climb, you have to carry your gear and so having a really light-but-strong backpack from Osprey has always been helpful for me.
We must continue to ensure law enforcement has the necessary tools to combat terrorism here at home. We must also work with our allies and provide our military with the weapons and protective gear they need to defeat terrorism abroad.
He lives with his creativity in high gear.
Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul, you’ve got to run like an antelope out of control!
It’s sad that we have to sell our training gear, things we get in fights that are a good memory of what we had there, but we’ll get new stuff later.
Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
I just want to be in the studio. When you’ve got all the gear you want in your own house, it’s difficult to go out and do something else, you know?
I’m a bit of a geek when it comes to music. I like studio gear. I’m always looking it up on eBay and seeing what I can afford.
I’ve done work wearing full cold-weather gear hanging off of scientific towers in the Antarctic and the Arctic. Having to actually do small, delicate tasks on scientific equipment while you have no dexterity or tactile feedback is something that’s very transferrable.
My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward him.
I don’t have a huge amount of gear, but on the software side, I have a number of plug-in chains that act as abstracted versions of real instruments.
Kamal Haasan makes sure that his co-artists wear the safety gear when they perform stunts.
I wanted to do life, do something interesting. I ran out of things I wanted to say in my music, so I just put it down, sold all my gear, and put on some overalls and reconnected with the soil.
I feel like every time I start up, it’s like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very solely crank into that mental space where you feel really immersed in the world of the book and then you can just kind of go. But there’s just that few days of frustration to get to that point.
I grew up with lacrosse in my life because my dad played lacrosse all throughout college, so I grew up with the gear in my house – like the sticks, the helmet.
Get up every morning, tell yourself you are beautiful and gear up to win!
Millions around the world see Formula One as the pinnacle of motorsport, and I firmly believe that we should do whatever it takes to keep this accolade. Traction control, automatic gear changes, and launch control isn’t my definition of the ‘pinnacle of motorsport.’
I’ve been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.
I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it’s almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the ’50’s.
People often look at the past through the rose-tinted glass, but if you go back to ‘Top Gear’ 2000/2002 the chemistry wasn’t there, it took time to grow.
That was how we categorised ourselves in the dressing room – you were either a nerd or a Julio. Julios have got to look perfect – the hair has got to be perfect, they’ve got to have the right gear on, it’s all about their appearance. The nerds weren’t bothered about how they looked.
I like tweaking the studio and wiring things up almost as much as making music, so that’s kind of a hobby of mine, in and of itself. I don’t like to collect gear that I know I’m not going to use, though.
The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven – which is the mind, the organized mind.
I grew up in Southern California. If it’s snowing on a day I’m supposed to train, I’ll just stare out the window in all my gear and be like, ‘Hmmm, maybe not today.’ I hate being cold.
I ended up buying a van to chuck all my fishing gear in because I couldn’t keep using my car.
Half the struggle is just getting yourself to the gym or getting yourself in your workout gear and ready for action.
Unlike Fred and Paddy, I don’t get many offers of work other than ‘Top Gear,’ because I’m crap at everything else.
‘Top Gear’ is one of those shows that you’d love to do.
I have one speed, I have one gear: go!
I could talk about technique, theory and gear for days!
The blue gear with the red dinosaur is special to me because that’s the first gear I wore in NXT.
Low-cost gear can make restless people like myself feel marginally happier.
In 1974, when the city of Boston was desegregating its schools, I watched the news with my dad and saw the police escorts in riot gear, the protesters screaming at the buses, small frightened faces in their windows.
