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"When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a difficult time balancing between my real world and the artificial world."
"What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown."
"Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented."
"The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it."
"Perhaps of all our untamed quadrupeds, the fox has obtained the widest and most familiar reputation.... His recent tracks still give variety to a winter's walk. I tread in the steps of the fox that has gone before me by some hours, or which perhaps I have started, with such a tip-toe of expectation as if I were on the trail of the Spirit itself which resides in the wood, and expected soon to catch it in its lair."
"He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly."
"The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us."
"By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions."
"I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track."
"I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on?"
"All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself."
"I have been the guy who has everything but yet is so one-track minded about what I want, that I can't see my blessings."
"A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him."
"We have to be able track the ways in which fear, for instance, is monopolized by state and media institutions, ways in which fear is actually promoted and distributed as a way of bolstering the need for greater security and militarization."
"Visual renditions of war not only establish what can be seen, and the audio-track established what can be heard, but the photographs also "train" us in ways of focusing on targets, ways of regarding suffering and loss."
"If you speak [ about violence against Israelis], you are in an unspeakable place, have become a Nazi or its moral equivalent (if there is a moral equivalent). It certainly terrifies, but perhaps also it is a linguistic permutation of state terrorism, an assault that stops one in one's tracks, and secures the continuing operation of the regime and its monopoly on politically intelligible speech."
"In the track of fear we have so many conditions, expectations, and obligations that we create a lot of rules just to protect ourselves... when the truth is that there shouldn't be any rules. These rules affect the quality of the channels of communication between us."
"I'm just protecting my children and making sure I pull them in the right direction so they don't end up like me with having to go through all that hardship. They may not survive so it's all about putting them on the right track."
"When you say vision you have a track that this is what I would like to say."
"I'm on the faculty. I teach. And it's not easy for a poor person to enter the campus to track down the professor in the campus in a Bangladesh situation. They all will be stopped at the gate. You have no business in the university!"
