Track Quotes - Page 35

• I base my track-listing and what songs I pick by what my fans expect from me and what they want and what I think they want.

  Tyler Farr

  Song, Thinking, Fans

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• If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone else is out. You cannot live on the right side of the tracks without there being a wrong side of the tracks, so you ought to be grateful to the outside for having the privilege of being on the inside.

  Alan Watts

  Grateful, People, Groups

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• No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Stars, Science, Feet

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• I think we have a great track record on being relevant, on identifying consumer trends, needs and wants.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Thinking, Needs, Records

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• Honestly, a lot of pop records have beatboxing. Timbaland beatboxes on his tracks. Justin Timberlake beatboxes.

  Doug E. Fresh

  Records, Pops, Honestly

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• The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned.

  Cobi Jones

  Fields, Corny, Banned

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• I find motivation within myself. I run track not from a competitive Nature, but because I'm a very goal-oriented person.

  Gail Devers

  Success, Sports, Running

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• There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind me as the sun tracks down to the sea. I have my bearings.

  Tim Winton

  Beach, Nature, Sea

  Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.6, Penguin UK

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• Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough.

  John C. Maxwell

  Faces, Life Is, Fork In The Road

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward”, p.75, Harper Collins

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• Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper - someone who keeps track of what he gives and what he gets in return. An annoying quality, to say the least, and I'm sure my wife has your sympathy, but it's made me highly attuned to when and where credit is due.

  Mark Feuerstein

  Giving, Wife, Quality

  "Credit Where It’s Due" by Mark Feuerstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2012.

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• What you never want to do is have a story that doesn't track emotionally, because then you're going joke to joke and you're going to fatigue the audience. The only thing that's going to string them to the next joke is how successful the previous joke is.

  Paul Feig

  Successful, Stories, Want

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• I look at myself as the 'Batman' of track -- a vigilante. You may not like me, but I'm needed.

  Justin Gatlin

  Looks, May, Vigilante

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• Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Ideas, Pages

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.611, Penguin

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• I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own, baby.

  Picabo Street

  Baby, Following, My Own

  Twitter post from Jan 19, 2012

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• When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.

  Norman Jewison

  Numbers, Work Out, Musical

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• The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore.

  Rosita Forbes

  Travel, Journey, Rivers

  Rosita Forbes (1935). “From Red Sea to Blue Nile: a thousand miles of Ethiopia”

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• It's so hard to listen to these trains outside my window, here it comes again. And it's calling me, begging me, follow me down the track. And it moans so dark and low, baby ain't comin' back... It sounds like crying, it sounds like letting go. Breathing and lying, sinking and dying slow. And I watch from my window, touching the cold glass sky. As the train rolls down the track, I say goodbye.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Letting Go, Goodbye, Baby

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• In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.

  Niels Bohr

  Nature, Real, Essence

  Niels Bohr (2011). “Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature: Four Essays with an Introductory Survey”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

  William Hurt

  Service Culture, Ideas, People

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• I have recorded nine tracks for a new album which I financed myself and am looking for a home for.

  Suzi Quatro

  Home, Albums, Nine

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• My son, hold fast! Do not care for anybody to help you. Is not the Lord infinitely greater than all human help? Be holy--trust in the Lord, depend on him always, and you are on the right track. Nothing can prevail against you.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Son, Care, Helping

  Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.224, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• We need to capitalize on the tracks we're really, really good at. At Richmond and Martinsville, our performance and results have not been very good, even though I consider them to be among my two best racetracks.

  Denny Hamlin

  Two, Needs, Results

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• Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out.

  Ice T

  Rap, Writing, Mean

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• I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you're well on your way to success in this world.

  Charlie Munger

  Honesty, Simple, Thinking

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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

  Jesus, Taken, Christ On The Cross

  a.c.dixon (1962). “the glories of the cross”

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