Track famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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In Jesus Christ on the Cross, there is refuge; there is safety; there is shelter; and all the power of sin upon our track cannot reach us when we have taken shelter under the Cross that atones for our sins.
-- A. C. Dixon -
I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought. Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of. I believe they know everything that I do and think, and they still love me, and I’ve concluded, after careful consideration, that this person keeping score is me
-- Adam Savage -
The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated.
-- Adam Savage -
Tie my handlebars to the stars so I stay on track & if my intentions stray I'll wrench them away,then I'll take my leave & I won't even look back
-- Adam Young -
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.
-- Adolf Galland -
Sales managers should track the number of first meetings with "right fit" prospects a sales person is engaged in on a monthly basis...This metric alone will serve as a powerful, early-warning system to sales performance.
-- Adrian Davis -
Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track, I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
-- Agnes Martin -
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 -
Global warming pollution, indeed all pollution, is now described by economists as an "externality." This absurd label means, in essence: we don't to keep track of this stuff so let's pretend it doesn't exist.
-- Al Gore -
I'm free to do what I please, I'm probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
-- Al Yankovic -
How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I'm on the right track or that I've started at some place that you're familiar with?
-- Alan Alda -
The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
-- Alan Kay -
Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.
-- Albert Camus -
I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.
-- Alberto Juantorena -
I like the marathon because it's one race where you can find out who's really the toughest. On the track, sometimes a guy can just pull away, and you want to stay with him but you don't have the leg speed. The marathon is slow enough that anyone can stay with you if he wants, if he has the will. The marathon is ultimately a test of will.
-- Alberto Salazar -
I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.
-- Alexa Chung -
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 -
Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Of course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. One discovery will lead to another, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind, and really big discoveries are the result of thought.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
Few of us know what we are capable of doing... we have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out. Alfred
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.
-- Ali Vincent -
Well, considering my entire life, now seems rules by odd coincidences, I figure it's right on track.
-- Alice Clayton -
Somehow, we have gotten off track from the basics of health and spirituality, and we get in our own way.
-- Alice McCall -
I keep track of my body by how my jeans fit—and how I feel.
-- Alison Sweeney -
It's about stepping up on the big stage. The athlete who can do that is goig to do well.
-- Allen Johnson -
I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.
-- Allyson Felix -
I spend around two and half hours on the track every day running and another 2 hours in the weight room lifting weights with my strength coach.
-- Allyson Felix -
I never let track define me. That's something that's really important to me.
-- Allyson Felix -
I love the relays. Track is such an individual sport, so it's fun to do something together.
-- Allyson Felix -
All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs.
-- Allyson Schwartz -
He stops in his tracks, face expressing major disappointment. "Wait - seriously? That's it? We don't get to do a stealthy tiptoe as we slip around back? No sneaking through a cracked window, or arguing over who gets to crawl through the dogie door to let the other one in?
-- Alyson Noel -
I still listen to tracks sometimes and hear some of the harmonies and its just amazing.
-- Amerie -
I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track
-- Amy Goodman -
Our borders and our obstacles can only do two things: (1) stop us in our tracks, or (2) force us to get creative.
-- Amy Purdy -
My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.
-- Andreas Gursky -
I think any songwriter or record, no matter how good it is, can become tedious if it's the same person's point of view. After four tracks, you start to get worn down no matter how good it is. It can be relentlessly good, but it's still going to wear you out.
-- Andrew Bird -
I was that kind of kid that was going to the movies every weekend, I couldnt get enough of the movies, and now I get to make them. So I kind of have a one-track mind.
-- Andrew Stanton -
I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal
-- Andrew Wiles -
None of these devices address that women keep track of many peoples lives, not just their own.
-- Anita Borg -
My track record is pretty good on predictions.
-- Ann Coulter -
Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice.
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld -
My field-mouse had made a set of brand-new tracks; here and there they etched themselves, following the brown flowers. It seemed as if uncommon spirits had seized their little maker, for sometimes he had leaped a yard, the festive mite! There was no other track pursuing; the leaps must have been mere joy.
-- Anne Bosworth Greene -
I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.
-- Anne Lamott -
When you're shooting that fast end to end, you wake up in a hotel and you don't know where you are. You're dreaming of Singapore, you wake up in Hong Kong. Or you just lose track. [It's] one of the reasons I'm staying in hotels that I know I've stayed in before, and they don't look like other hotels.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
XXIX Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking. Traveller, the path is your tracks And nothing more. Traveller, there is no path The path is made by walking. By walking you make a path And turning, you look back At a way you will never tread again Traveller, there is no road Only wakes in the sea.
-- Antonio Machado -
Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.
-- Aphex Twin -
I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words — not almost right words. Before you ask, I'll tell you that yes, I do write 600 at the top of my pad every day, and I keep track of the word count to insure I reach my quota daily — without fail.
-- Arthur Hailey -
I think romance is something that you don't clock or keep track of... you don't manage it in that way. It's something that happens in a moment. Usually, it's in a period of time when you put yourself in an uncomfortable position for the sake of somebody else.
-- Ashton Kutcher -
I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.
-- Babyface -
It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.
-- Barbara Bush -
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
You have to transfer your success on the track to your education, because you don't want to waste what you did athletically once your athletic career is over.
-- Beau Walker -
If I'm more prepared, the success will fall on me; if not, it will fall on someone else, and I'm okay with that.
-- Beau Walker -
What's the biggest thing you've zapped with a fireball?' I asked. 'That would be a tiger,'said Nightingale. 'Well don't tell Greenpeace,' I said. 'They're an endagered species.' 'Not that sort of tiger,' said Nightingale. 'A Panzer-kampfwagen sechs Ausf E.' I stared at him. 'You knocked out a Tiger tank with a fireball?' 'Actually I knocked out two,' said Nightingale. 'I have to admit that the first one took three shots, one to disable the tracks, one through the driver's eye slot and one down the commander's hatch - brewed up rather nicely.
-- Ben Aaronovitch -
My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time.
-- Ben Marcus -
In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.
-- Ben Marcus -
But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and what I saw, stopped me in my tracks. Instead of the usual unlocalized centre of myself, there was nothing there, it was empty, and at the moment of seeing this there was a flood of quiet joy and I knew, finally I knew what was missing-it was my "self".
-- Bernadette Roberts -
If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
-- Bernard Malamud -
If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
-- Bernard Malamud -
People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utter nonsense.
-- Bernard Marcus -
As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.
-- Bernie Worrell -
It's a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approximately 9 million pets enter shelters each year. That's why it's a wonderful thing to get your pet microchipped and registered with your contact information because then they can be located and the owners can track where their pets are.
-- Betty White -
Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track.
-- Bill Bixby -
I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready.
-- Bill Bradley -
You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.
-- Bill Budge -
I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence… what do you have?
-- Bill Gross -
Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
-- Bill Hybels -
You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.
-- Bill Kurtis -
Under no circumstances will any supporter try to tell me what I should do. That is why I have the track record that I have got.
-- Billy Davies -
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre...
-- Billy Wilder -
So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
-- Bo Jackson -
Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to The Smithsonian. Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a hundred tracks today.
-- Bob Dylan -
NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government.
-- Bob Inglis -
Republican governors are leading the way in helping the private sector create new jobs, reforming government and getting our economy back on track.
-- Bob McDonnell -
I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.
-- Bob Seger -
Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.
-- Bonnie Blair -
Technology is not a panacea. I refuse to work on technology to track users, analyze usage patterns, watermark information, censor, detect drug use, or eavesdrop. I am not naive enough to think any of those technologies could enable a 'compromise'.
-- Bram Cohen -
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 -
You might tell me that you have been engaging in some deep questioning and theological rethinking.1 You can no longer live with the faith you inherited from your parents or constructed earlier in your life. As you sort through your dogma and doctrine, you’ve found yourself praying less, less thrilled about worship, scripture, or church attendance. You’ve been so focused on sorting and purging your theological theories that you’ve lost track of the spiritual practices that sustain an actual relationship with God. You may even wonder if such a thing is possible for someone like you.
-- Brian D. McLaren -
... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing that stuff (Rock & Roll) ... you can really tell on some tracks ... they were actually afraid at times of what they were playing. But Rock & Roll definitely didn't come before that time; it started right there
-- Brian Setzer -
The ultimate winners are willing to take ultimate risks.
-- Brooks Johnson -
And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going.
-- Bruce Catton -
Its always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.
-- Buddy Rice -
I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
-- Buffalo Bill -
You could put me on any track. I support that one million percent. Whatever the track is, I'm going to smash it. Believe that
-- Busta Rhymes -
Compression is a necessary evil. The artists I know want to sound competitive. You don't want your track to sound quieter or wimpier by comparison. We've raised the bar and you can't really step back.
-- Butch Vig -
Imagination must constantly run on a new track or it becomes lifeless. A living imagination is essential to prayer.
-- Calvin Miller -
Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.
-- Carl David Anderson -
My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.
-- Carl Lewis -
I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
-- Carl Lewis -
At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.
-- Carl Lewis -
Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
-- Carl Lewis -
I knew when the ball was going out (over the Green Monster). It was something I worked into the decoy, but it used to tick the pitchers off. Bill Monbouquette used to say, 'Can't you at least make it look like you can catch it?' Meanwhile, the ball would be on its way over the fence to a spot three-quarters of the way out to the railroad tracks.
-- Carl Yastrzemski