Track Quotes - Page 23

• Where roads are made I lose my way.In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track.The pathway is hidden by the birds' wings, by the star-fires, by the flowers of the wayfaring seasons.And I ask my heart if its blood carries the wisdom of the unseen way.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Stars, Flower, Heart

  Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)”, p.207, Delphi Classics

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• ...he had a fascinating technique of gnawing his cigar from one corner of his mouth to the other, as if his teeth were equipped with trolley tracks, and suddenly grabbing it out and gesticulating wit it before he jammed it back.

  Leslie Ford

  Technique, Teeth, Mouths

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• It is the narrow, hidden tracks that lead back to our lost homeland, what contains the solution to the last mysteries is not the ugly scar that life's rasp leaves on us, but the fine, almost invisible writing that is engraved on our body.

  Gustav Meyrink

  Writing, Lasts, Body

  Gustav Meyrink, Mike Mitchell (Translator) (2013). “The Golem”, p.85, SCB Distributors

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• Straightway is a power word. Straightway is an action word. It means immediately, without delay or hesitation. It means at once. Also, it is associated with having no curve or turn-a straight course, track, or path. Procrastination would be the very opposite of straightway. To procrastinate is to put off intentionally and habitually something that should be done. Procrastination is unproductive delay.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Procrastination, Mean, Curves

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• The greatest danger in life is not taking chances. There are so many negative people wanting to grind you down, but you can't let them. If people say you are mad, you know you're on the right track.

  Brian Blessed

  Danger In Life, People, Mad

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• There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Squirrels, Glasses, Snow

  Essays "Compensation" (1841)

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• Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those habits, break the pre- off the -dictable, unsettle the suburbs of your routine sentiments, and rattle the tracks of your trains of thoughts.

  Heather McHugh

  Train Of Thought, Trying, Routine

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• I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India's track record, but for many environmental problems, there are technological solutions.

  Jairam Ramesh

  Thinking, Environmental, India

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• Track and field was very big when I was growing up.

  Usain Bolt

  Growing Up, Fields, Bigs

  "Local heroes: Usain Bolt". Interview with Rio Ferdinand, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2009.

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• When the lab rats hear the bell ringing, they freeze. That's what fear does to you - fear stops you dead in your tracks. Fear can keep you from harm, but fear can also rob you of your potential. Fear can rob you of an experience. Fear can rob you of happiness. Fear can rob you of real life... Darkness has a way of scaring us.

  Rob Bell

  Fear, Real, Darkness

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• My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of work.

  Jerome Kerviel

  Scandal, Kind, Making Money

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• I've been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before the singer starts singing, you know the track is swinging ... you know you have a multimillion-seller hit - and what you're working on suddenly has magic.

  Ahmet Ertegun

  Running, Magic, Singing

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• Craft takes time, and therefore it is luxury. You cannot do an amazingly well-made garment without taking time—not just the time it takes to make something but also the time it took the maker to come up with the idea. That is all luxury, and that has been lost because were trying to make things faster and faster, cheaper and cheaper. The consumer tends to lose track of what luxury is.

  Isabel Toledo

  Ideas, Luxury, Trying

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• You know, sometimes the little victories that I have throughout the season are not necessarily obvious on the track. Maybe they're another aspect of what I'm doing, winning little victories here and there to get everything in line to be able to perform from top to bottom on race day.

  Danica Patrick

  Winning, Race, Victory

  Danica Patrick's Firestone 550K Post-Race Press Conference, www.motorsport.com. June 6, 2010.

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• I learned in high school that I was going to have to outwork people. I remember running around the track, training for football, and a faster guy ran past me. I just figured, I can outlast him. If I work harder than him, I'll beat him. And to this day I overprepare.

  Roger Goodell

  Football, Running, Hard Work

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• John McDonnell is the Bear Bryant of track and field.

  Frank Broyles

  Track And Field, Fields, Bears

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• I'm always on tour, so I'm always trying new tracks out live before they're released. That's more necessity than anything, because I don't get a proper chance to sit in a studio and work on tracks like other producers do.

  Skrillex

  Always Trying, Chance, Producers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why I make music. It's great if that happens, like it did with 'Clarity,' but my goal is to always make a better track than the last one.

  Zedd

  Song, Goal, Needs

  "Zedd says Hayley Williams 'fits so well' on 'stay the night'" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. September 10, 2013.

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• Its always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

  Buddy Rice

  Racing, Special, Different

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• I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.

  Nina Bawden

  Husband, Shoes, Pairs

  "Dear Austen". Book by Nina Bawden, www.theguardian.com. 2005.

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• When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Thinking, Feet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.106, Harvard University Press

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• It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.

  Dani Shapiro

  Moving, Writing, Commitment

  "Dani Shapiro: Stop Asking for Permission". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. September 27, 2013.

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• At LearnVest, we're working to make financial planning both accessible and affordable so that everyone has the opportunity to get on track financially.

  Alexa Von Tobel

  Opportunity, Planning, Financial

  "The Impossible Conundrum" by Alexa von Tobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.

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• But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.

  Dan Wheldon

  Jobs, Team, Class

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• I'm focused on myself and on what I've got to do...I'm just trying to get back on track and keep this positive mindset.

  Tim Lincecum

  Trying, Mindset, Get Back

  FaceBook post by Tim Lincecum from Mar 22, 2015

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