Single Track Quotes

#1. I'm on a single track here - I work to direct what I want to see onstage. I basically have been feeding my own needs - to be working on a specific project at a specific time, and fortunately more often it works than fails.

Harold Prince

#2. I succumbed to the lure of the oracle, he thought.
And he sensed that succumbing to this lure might be to fix himself upon a single-track life. Could it be, he wondered, that the oracle didn't tell the future? Could it be that the oracle made the future?

Frank Herbert

#3. One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power - but he is ill equipped for life's true adventure into the infinite.

Rabindranath Tagore

#4. There seems to be this assumption that when we have "found ourselves" we have centered on one single version of who we can be. Why is the key to sincerity the pursuit of a single identity? Why is it assumed that our authenticity, whether personal or artistic, lies in "discovering" one single track?

Pablo Helguera

#5. I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#6. Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.

Robin McKinley

#7. Every Bass Communion track is based on a single sound source. Increasingly I find that I'm really interested in taking a particular sound and it's almost like solving a problem. If I have a sound, the problem is how can I create a piece of music from this one sound source?

Steven Wilson

#8. I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and on.

Cornel West

#9. Until the album is perfect and every track sounds like a single and has a world-renowned icon on it, it's not done.

Riff Raff

#10. the man eventually becomes what he dreams of"
By T. Afsin Ilgar - Ted's Tale

T. Afsin Ilgar

#11. To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!

Lord Byron

#12. You end up throwing a ton of energy into one or two tracks, and the song that we thought was gonna be the single isn't the single.

Ed Robertson

#13. But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.

Roberto Bolano

#14. Life is an adventure I am enjoying creating.

Jay Woodman

#15. The single biggest change in middle-distance running, from the 1500 metres to 10,000 metres, has been the track surface.

Herb Elliott

#16. When you marry the one you love, everything is perfect

Nurilla Iryani

#17. We can track and see the production of single molecules, trace them and see how they assemble into structures.

Eric Betzig

#18. Speed is relative. Does it feel fast going 70 miles per hour down an eight lane highway? No, probably not, but I bet it does if you are going down some single lane dirt road. It's the same in a race car. It depends on the track.

Kyle Petty

#19. You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track.

Albert Einstein

#20. You will never disappear," I said. "Even if it may feel like you have at some point. We're going to remain a part of each other's lives for much longer than we think. There's nothing we can say or do to change that.

Dinaw Mengestu

#21. You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.

Ali Vincent

#22. I'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single.

Elizabeth McCracken

#23. I'm remixing an R.E.M. track called 'I've Been High' from their last album, 'Reveal.' It's a beautiful song, but record execs didn't put it out as a single because it didn't sound like the R.E.M. we're used to. So I asked Michael Stipe if I could have the tapes to do a remix, and he agreed.

Lukas Haas

#24. As scientists, we track down all promising leads, and there's reason to suspect that our universe may be one of many - a single bubble in a huge bubble bath of other universes.

Brian Greene

#25. And no, I've not been obsessive enough to keep track of the hours and minutes, or even the seconds, but I've noticed every single one of them.

Jenna Elizabeth Johnson

#26. When you refuse to settle for less than the best ... the best tends to track you down.

Mandy Hale

#27. Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me.

Banana Yoshimoto

#28. There's something uncontaminated about her, and I don't even mean sexually or whatever. I mean the way she is, at her core. Like when you wake up and the world has been blanketed by snow overnight, and not a single footstep or tire track has spoiled the untouched perfection of it.

Tammara Webber

#29. I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.

Abraham A. Ribicoff

#30. Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.

Kingsley Amis

#31. Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure out along with our congregations how we can incarnate the gospel in our community, or we will preach to a religious ghetto.

John Ortberg