Shear Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom? — Jules Shear

Everyone has at least one story that will stop your heart. — Claudia Shear

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

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

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

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

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

I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights. — Jules Shear

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

The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again. — Jules Shear

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

You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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

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

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

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

Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there. — Jules Shear

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

Being fat is the absolute nadir of the misfit. You're a misfit because nothing fits. You don't fit in. You're not fit. You're fat. Fat doesn't have the poetic cachet of alcohol, the whiff of danger in the drug of choice. You're just fat. Being fat is so un-American, so unattractive, unerotic, unfashionable, undisciplined, unthinkable, uncool. It makes you invisible. It makes you conspicuous. — Claudia Shear

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

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

Behind every great woman is a great behind! — Rhonda Shear

I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty. — Jules Shear

Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it. — Jules Shear

The one question you can't ask is, is this feature actually good or not? — Emmett Shear

People don't like silence, so they'll keep talking to fill the void. — Emmett Shear

Great intimates conform to you ... not you to them — Rhonda Shear

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

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep. — Robert Herrick

I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here. — Jules Shear

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

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time. — Robert Plant

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

This is true for most new products. The majority of people you're competing with are non-users. They are people who have never used your service before. And what they say is actually the most important. What they say is the thing that blocks you from expanding the size of your market with your features. — Emmett Shear

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

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

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

Life insurance pays off triple if you die on a business trip. I prayed for wind shear effect. I prayed for pelicans sucked into the turbines and loose bolts and ice on the wings. On takeoff, as the plane pushed down the runway and the flaps tilted up, with our seats in their full upright position and our tray tables stowed and all personal carry-on baggage in the overhead compartment, as the end of the runway ran up to meet us with our smoking materials extinguished, I prayed for a crash. — Chuck Palahniuk

The whole day of Bel Tine would be taken up with singing and dancing and feasting, with time out for footraces, and contests in almost everything. Prizes would be given not only in archery, but for the best with the sling, and the quarterstaff. There would be contests at solving riddles and puzzles, at the rope tug, and lifting and tossing weights, prizes for the best singer, the best dancer and the best fiddle player, for the quickest to shear a sheep, even the best at bowls, and at darts. — Robert Jordan

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

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

Mankind has never been in this position before. Without having improved appreciably in virtue or enjoying wiser guidance, it has got into its hands for the first time the tools by which it can unfailingly accomplish its own extermination. That is the point in human destinies to which all the glories and toils of men have at last led them. They would do well to pause and ponder upon their new responsibilities. Death stands at attention, obedient, expectant, ready to serve, ready to shear away the peoples en masse; ready, if called on, to pulverise, without hope of repair, what is left of civilisation. He awaits only the word of command. He awaits it from a frail, bewildered being, long his victim, now - for one occasion only - his Master. — Winston S. Churchill

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

I'll tell you the truth, everything you hear is a lie. — Jeff Shear

Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy. — Jules Shear

But tell me, uncle, who is responsible for your being involved in these quarrels? Would it not be better to remain peacefully here at home and not go roaming through the world in search of better bread than is made from wheat, without taking into consideration that many who go for wool come back shorn?"
"My dear niece," replied Don Quixote, "how little you understand of these matters! Before they shear me, I will have plucked and stripped the beards of any who dare to touch the tip of a single hair of mine. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

I made this record without a record label. — Jules Shear

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

I am noticing a big difference in the way the hospital workers are looking at me as I approach Jess's room.
The look of sincere sympathy that used to be on their faces when they made eye contact with me is gone.
It has been replaced by shear helplessness as they quickly walk past me with their heads tilted down and to the right.
I feel like Bud Fox walking into his office with the Securities and Exchange Commission awaiting him. — JohnA Passaro

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

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

Fashion absolutely matters, but it doesn't matter absolutely. — Claudia Shear

Aldus Barnes, a structural engineer by training and member of the Advanced Geometry Unit (AGU) at Arup, has formed many successful collaborations and earned a prominent place for himself in architecture by adopting the language and skills of architects. "Talk in terms of texture and density, instead of torsion and shear. That way they don't think you are just another nerd," Barnes advises the young members of his team. — Yanni Alexander Loukissas

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

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

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

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

There was an easier solution to the security breach. He could kill us all. An explosion at a bomb factory would tidy up the problems of a trial drawn out by national security motions. There would be no pleas, no losing, no settlement. If this place blew, no one would ever know about Wahi Pandi, Gadwhal or the Gissar heliport. None of it. The secret would be safe. — Jeff Shear

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

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

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

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

You want to learn about what's already in their heads. You want to avoid putting things there. — Emmett Shear

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

The question is, once you have this idea, is this enough? Is it something people would actually switch just to have? — Emmett Shear

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

You can shear a sheep many times, but skin him only once. — Mike McDermott

I love to get people to sing and play together. — Jules Shear

If you just talk to who's easy to talk to, you're not really getting the best data. — Emmett Shear

You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once. — Amarillo Slim

A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it. — Jules Shear

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

The bottom string is tuned to an open G. — Jules Shear

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

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

She'd just watched Tristan McLean, her cool suave movie star dad, reduced to near insanity. Leo could barely stand to watch that, but for Piper - Wow, Leo couldn't even imagine. He figured that would make her insecure about herself, too. If weakness was inherited, she'd be wondering, could she break down the same way her dad did? "Hey, don't worry," Leo said. "Piper, you're the strongest, most powerful beauty queen I've ever met. You can trust yourself. For what it's worth, you can trust me too." The helicopter dipped in a wind shear, and Leo almost jumped out of his skin. He cursed and righted the chopper. Piper laughed nervously. "Trust you, huh?" "Ah, shut up, already." But he grinned at her, and for a second, it felt like he was just relaxing comfortably with a friend. Then they hit the storm clouds. — Rick Riordan

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

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

Most of us would kill ourselves if we were as talent-free as Elizabeth Hurley. — Claudia Shear

Gem thought it would be hilarious to shear his brother's fine hair off while he was sleeping. Ever since then Menai decided he actually preferred the Mohawk. Both had inherited their mother's Western Continent coloring, a blend of pearly white and sea grass green that set their bold sea-colored eyes off handsomely. And since they had grown old enough to realize this, they had become a pair of pre-pubescent manipulating terrors. — Jennifer Silverwood

Things kind of happen organically with me. — Jules Shear

Who you talk to is just as important as what questions you ask and what you pull away from it. — Emmett Shear

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

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

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

Of course, to be truly 'surveillance free' required unpredictability or its cousin, spontaneity. — Jeff Shear

To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it! — Tiberius

I believe in life. I believe it to be something that is eternal, powerful and spread throughout the universe -- something like gravity. There are many such energies. Once we are able to detect life it will boggle our minds for centuries to come. The shear magnitude will rapture many, and destroy others, but we're not there yet. We can say something is alive, or dead, but not if life is there or not. Perhaps because it is too quiet, maybe because it is so loud we can hear nothing else, but mainly -- I believe -- because we haven't bothered to listen yet. -- from the Black Dog — Glenn Hefley

Spend any time in the real Italy, however, and you quickly realize that Italians don't really pick grapes much anymore, and they certainly don't stomp them either. They don't pick tomatoes - or olives - and they don't shear their sheep. Their tomatoes and olives are picked largely by underpaid Africans and Eastern Europeans, seasonal hires, brought in for that purpose - who are then demonized and complained about for the rest of the year. (Except when blowing motorists in the offseason - as can be readily observed on the outskirts of even the smallest Italian communities these days.) — Anthony Bourdain

The most interesting things you learn in an interviews come from the: 'interesting', 'tell me more' — Emmett Shear

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

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

The pool of people you care about is going to shift over time. — Emmett Shear