Track Quotes - Page 28

• Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

  Paul Simon

  Break Up, People, Break Out

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• There was one moment, and it happened in school. I had a big final exam - we were supposed to write a 20-page report on this book about Houdini. I probably would have loved reading it, but I didn't, so I just decided to make a little super-8 movie based on it. I tied myself to the railroad tracks and all that. I mean, this is kid stuff, but it impressed the teacher, and I got an A. And that was maybe my first turning point, when I said, 'Yeah, I wouldn't mind being a filmmaker.'

  Tim Burton

  Teacher, Reading, Book

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

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• Perhaps I don't give the impression that I'm hurting on the track. But that is because I am animated by an interior force which covers my suffering.

  Noureddine Morceli

  Motivational, Hurt, Athlete

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• You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.

  Donovan Bailey

  Good Friend, Thinking, Needs

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• I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.

  Donovan Bailey

  Exercise, Long, Brain

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• I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.

  Sam Houston

  Brother, Men, Liberty

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• I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence… what do you have?

  Bill Gross

  Years, Excellence, Investing

  "Bill Gross reportedly earns $290m bonus even as investors withdrew billions from Pimco funds" by Heidi Moore, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2014.

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• Truth is tarter than taradiddles; and nothing is tarter, terser, than truth on the track of tired trash in a trance.

  Frederick Rolfe

  Tired, Truth Is, Trash

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• 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

  Thinking, Technology, Drug Use

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• The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Enemy, Minutes, Careless

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Planning is the only way to keep yourself on track. Plan your moments to be joyous. Plan your days to be filled with peace. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. When you know where you are going, the universe will clear a path for you.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Growth, Way, Path

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Feb 04, 2017

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• 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

  Writing, Cutting, Horny

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• In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train

  Tina Brown

  Tvs, Feels, Standing

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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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• I'm woefully one-track-minded.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

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

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• The conventional wisdom in our business is that you have to grow and keep moving to survive.  We never grew, always stayed tiny, and it serves us very well over the years, allowing us to pick and choose projects, and keeping our financial independence from our clients.  We actually have a rather good track record, because we do select projects carefully. Most of our ideas don't eat dust but glimpse the light of day because we find it much more helpful to spend some serious time and effort before we start working on a project, rather than suffer through it afterwards.

  Stefan Sagmeister

  Moving, Dust, Years

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• It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.

  Tony Curtis

  Stars, Knitting, Paint

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• Efforts to ease regulations and reform the nation's tax system have helped put this self-sustaining recovery on track, The numbers prove our policies have not been wrong.

  Shinzo Abe

  Recovery, Numbers, Self

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• I am the object of criticism around the world. But I think that since I am being discussed, then I am on the right track.

  Kim Jong Il

  Thinking, Leader, Criticism

  "A Telling North Korean Journey" by James Brooke, www.nytimes.com. December 03, 2002.

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• We tell our portfolio companies that it's really important to be metrics-driven and to track their conversions. It goes back to building that scalable sales model.

  Devon McDonald

  Important, Metrics, Portfolios

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• There's a long record here of being wrong. There's a good reason for it. There are probably multiple reasons. Certainly proliferation is a hard thing to track, particularly in countries that deny easy and free access and don't have free and open societies.

  David Kay

  Country, Long, Being Free

  David Kay at Senate hearing, edition.cnn.com. January 29, 2004.

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• I have a long track record of really horrible relationships and a divorce behind me; so I'm not the guy to ask. I just got really fortunate with this one.

  James Denton

  Divorce, Long, Guy

  "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

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• If I'm going to get in these races and run against the best guys, I'm going to be there with them. And if I die, then I die, but I'm not going to walk away from the track saying, 'I didn't give everything.' Ever again.

  David Krummenacker

  Motivational, Running, Race

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• I think it's because it's so different and it takes risks. Plus, it's really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There's no laugh track.

  Sarah Chalke

  Love, Funny, Smart

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• 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

  Years, Oil, Energy

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