Fields Quotes - Page 25

• My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.

  Carol Vorderman

  Fitness, Bigs, Bottom

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• Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

  Dusty Baker

  Sports, Past, Police

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• The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Police, Onions, Saws

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.

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• The education situation which most effectively promotes significant learning is one in which (1) threat to the self of the learner is reduced to a minimum and (2) differential perception of the field of experience is facilitated

  Carl Rogers

  Self, Feminist, Perception

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• Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave

  Durwood Merrill

  Sports, Baseball, Rave

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• Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research.

  Peter Lynch

  Wall, Winning, Average

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• Human society is not a machine, and it must not be made such, even in the economic field.... Access to employment [shall not be] made to depend on registration in certain parties or in organization which deal with the distribution of employment.... It is necessary that humanity turn its gaze toward the action of God ... to aid and redeem mankind from all its ills.

  Pope Pius XII

  Work, Party, Organization

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• No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.

  Howard Gardner

  Inspirational, Taken, Writing

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• It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak at the touch of temptation, and that is liable to be assailed. Fearful, and yet salutary to think of; for the thought may serve to keep our moral nature braced. It warns us that we can never stand at ease, or lie down in this field of life, without sentinels of watchfulness and campfires of prayer.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Prayer, Spring, Lying

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• Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained very quiet. The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil. Perhaps this is inherent. In a community where the primary concern is making money, one of the necessary rules is to live and let live. To speak out against madness may be to ruin those who have succumbed to it. So the wise in Wall Street are nearly always silent. The foolish thus have the field to themselves. None rebukes them.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wise, Wall, Responsibility

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1955). “The great crash, 1929”

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• There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.Past experience, to the extent that it is part of memory at all, is dismissed as the primitive refuge of the those who do not have insight to appreciate the incredible wonders of the present.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Memories, Past, Appreciate

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1994). “A Short History of Financial Euphoria”, p.17, Penguin

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• Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men

  Mother Jones

  Fighting, Men, Mountain

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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, Track

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• Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by nature, now become the habitation of civilization, at a period unparalleled in history, in the midst of a raging war, and under all the disadvantages of emigration to a country so remote from the inhabited parts of the continent.

  Daniel Boone

  Country, War, Kentucky

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.1, Applewood Books

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• Of all the ills of man which can be successfully processed by Scientology, arthritis ranks near the top. In skilled hands, this ailment, though misunderstood and dreaded in the past, already has begun to become history. Twenty-five hours of Scientology by an auditor who fairly understands how to process arthritis can be said to produce an invariable alleviation of the condition. Some cases, even severe ones, have responded in as little as two hours of processing, according to reports from auditors in the field.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Past, Men, Hands

  Journal of Scientology Issue 1-G, 1952.

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• I believe that great success is possible in any field — from music to mathematics to macro trading.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Believe, Mathematics, Great Success

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• My off-the-cuff remarks at the University of Virginia were with regard to global macro traders, who are on-call 24/7 and of whom there are likely only a few thousand successful practitioners in the world today. Macro trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Divorce, Successful, Emotional

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• I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that make them human, and it made me feel sad to think that, but sad in that reassuring way that some sadness has, a sadness that says welcome home in twelve different languages.

  Miriam Toews

  Sadness, Home, Thinking

  Miriam Toews (2004). “A Complicated Kindness: A Novel”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• I’m always in awe of people who are artists in their fields – people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they’ve created value in the world.

  Kevin Systrom

  Artist, Reality, Ideas

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• Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.

  Ben Bernanke

  Past, Choices, Sophisticated

  "Wonkbook: Ben Bernanke’s surprisingly excellent, radical speech" by Ezra Klein, Evan Soltas, www.washingtonpost.com. June 3, 2013.

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• The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

  Bill Klem

  Team, Mistake, Umpires

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• But psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, 'describing things which everyone knows in language which no one understands'.

  Raymond Cattell

  Running, Circles, Psychology

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• One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of causation may separate final effects from ultimate causes lying outside the domain of that field of science.

  Jared Diamond

  Lying, Long, Historical

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.393, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Self, Sowing, Definitions

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• Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

  Gary Burton

  Musical, Common Experience, Musician

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