Fields Quotes - Page 26

• I learned early on to never walk while I was on the ball field. I ran everywhere I went.

  Enos Slaughter

  Effort, Balls, Slaughter

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• Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.

  Bill Crawford

  Life Changing, Practice, Want

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• The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field

  Gerry Mulligan

  Incredibles, Mulligans, Pops

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• Baseball is something more than a game to an American boy; it is his training field for life’s work. Destroy his faith in its squareness and honesty and you have destroyed something more; you have planted suspicion of all things in his heart.

  Kenesaw Mountain Landis

  Life, Faith, Baseball

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• Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.

  Anton Chekhov

  Writing, Artist, Two

  "Comfort reading: Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov" by Chris Power, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2003.

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• As Hoffman later lamented, “The reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits.

  Joanna Hoffman

  Reality, Spurs, Distortion

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• I think managing shortened my playing career, but I was a better manager when I was playing, when I could lead like a platoon sergeant in the field rather than as a general sitting back on his duff in a command post.

  Frankie Frisch

  Thinking, Careers, Sitting

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• Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodia thinks he knows LA because he's seen City of Angels on video.

  Pico Iyer

  Angel, Thinking, Cities

  Pico Iyer (2011). “The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home”, p.84, Vintage

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• It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.

  Darrell Issa

  Party, Believe, Simple

  "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. May 31, 2010.

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• A field Marshall is born, not made!

  Erich Ludendorff

  Born, Made

  "World War I: Encyclopedia". Book by Spencer Tucker, p. 716, 2005.

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• If the student truly absorbs the concept of free inquiry in the field of music, unimpeded by blind adherence to doctrine and tradition, he will bring something of this approach not only to other fields of knowledge but to the conduct of his daily life.

  William Howard Schuman

  Doctrine, Inquiry, Adherence

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• Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.

  Virgil Thomson

  Jobs, Nice, Writing

  Virgil Thomson (1984). “A Virgil Thomson reader”, Plume

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• The physical organism itself then, even as you know it, exists and moves and reacts and influences, and is influenced by, many fields or planes of actuality; and its existence as you know it in your universe is determined by and dependent upon its existence within other fields, of which man is still intellectually ignorant.

  Jane Roberts

  Moving, Men, Ignorant

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• I’ve come to believe that connecting is one of the most important business—and life—skill sets you’ll ever learn. Why? Because, flat out, people do business with people they know and like. Careers—in every imaginable field—work the same

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Believe, Skills, Careers

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.19, Crown Business

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• People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and replace them with data, you gain a clear advantage.

  Michael Lewis

  Data, People, Gains

  Michael Lewis (2004). “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company

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• On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Weed, Marijuana, Exhausted

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”

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• Market bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention--though they'd be skeptical--but the notion that, on general principle, complex systems ran themselves just fine without benign intervention seemed like it could only be the product of a quasi-religious faith. ... Of course, this gets things almost precisely backwards. It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.

  Julian Sanchez

  Religious, Order, Ideas

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• What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.

  Arthur Hopcraft

  Football, People, Alcohol

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• When you're doing what's right, on and off the field, the Lord steps in and plays a part.

  Austin Collie

  Play, Steps, Lord

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• I’m not a risk taker. But astronauts are professionals, so you get out on the field and play ball. I tried to take it in stride because that’s what I had to do to get into space. That’s where I belong, and I’m pretty good at it.

  Story Musgrave

  Play, Space, Risk

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• Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and his claim that humans always remain part of nature, acting solely according to the same rules. She demonstrates the political consequences of adopting this perspective through a provocative intervention in contemporary feminist theory, while along the way opening promising avenues for future work in a variety of other fields, such as animal studies and ecology. This is a challenging and important book.

  Michael Hardt

  Book, Reading, Animal

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• The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing the exploitation of others, and then, when social pressure builds, be blamed and scapegoated, distracting those at the bottom from the crimes of those at the top. Peasants who go on pogrom against their Jewish neighbors won't make it to the nobleman's palace to burn him out and seize the fields. This was the role of Jews in Europe. This has been the role of Jews in the United States, and this is the role of Jews in the Middle East.

  Aurora Levins Morales

  Europe, Middle East, Groups

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• With the broad and powerful swing of the hand which Zola in The Earth gave to his ploughman, L'Auto, journal of ideas and action, is going to fling across France today those reckless and uncouth sowers of energy who are the great professional riders of the world... From Paris to the blue waves of the Mediterranean, from Marseille to Bordeaux, passing along the roseate and dreaming roads sleeping under the sun, across the calm of the fields of the Vendée, following the Loire, which flows on still and silent, our men are going to race madly, unflaggingly.

  Henri Desgrange

  Dream, Powerful, Sleep

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• You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.

  Chris Murray

  Mind, Done

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• It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.

  David Douglass

  Experts, Use, Reputation

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