Fields Quotes - Page 29

• Because of some defect in my motor skill, I can never COMPLETELY wrap [gifts]....If I had been an ancient Egyptian in the field of mummies, the lower half of the Pharaoh's body would be covered only by scotch tape.

  Dave Barry

  Christmas, Skills, Scotch

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• The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don't hit the fly ball to center field.

  Stan Musial

  Baseball, Keys, Average

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Running, Games

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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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• 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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• Different people, different backgrounds, different ideals... We walk in different doors at the beginning of the day, and we walk out of different doors at the end of the day. But when it is time to go out on that field, we all go through the same door.

  Scott Rolen

  Baseball, Doors, People

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

  Bill Crawford

  Life Changing, Practice, Want

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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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• People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet Lancelot had more.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Men, People

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• Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Change, Science, Men

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.90, University of Chicago Press

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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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• 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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• In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Discovery, May

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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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• All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.

  Adolf Hitler

  Trust, Betrayal, Lying

  Adolf Hitler (1939). “Mein Kampf: Complete and Unabridged, Fully Annotated”

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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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• I hope a start at getting some oil out of the enormous Alaska field isn't indefinitely mired in a bureaucratic morass as a result of our national concern for the ecology. This concern must not be so misguided, misdirected, misused that it serves to stop economic growth, to bankrupt companies, to stifle new development, new jobs, new horizons. In fighting new pollution and stemming present pollution, exciting, sometimes costly means and methods exist and others will evolve. But blanket legislative naysaying to expanding power and energy sources is stupid, self-defeating.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Nature, Jobs, Stupid

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• It may seem sometimes as if a culture of peace does not stand a chance against the culture of war, the culture of violence and the cultures of impunity and intolerance. Peace may indeed be a complex challenge, dependent on action in many fields and even a bit of luck from time to time. It may be a painfully slow process, and fragile and imperfect when it is achieved. But peace is in our hands. We can do it.

  Kofi Annan

  Time, Peace, War

  "Secretary-General Stresses Need for Culture of Peace". Kofi Annan's message for the occasion of the International Day of Peace (September 14), www.un.org. September 10, 1999.

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• Accuse American businessmen of being responsible for radicalism and they would indignantly deny the accusation. Yet, in one fundamental sense, they are responsible. They are responsible in the sense that they have utterly neglected to take part in the work and the organization which precede the choosing of candidates for political office. Local political organizations all over the land are conducted and controlled, as a rule, by politicians.... Businessmen have shirked such responsibilities, leaving an untrammeled field to others less capable of carrying on the administration of government.

  B. C. Forbes

  Responsibility, Government, Land

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• This modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in possession of all truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong ; like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, tho' in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Distance, Men, Weather

  "Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin".

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• In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

  Sigmund Freud

  Science, Psychology, Analysis

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• It has passed over mountain ranges and
  The waters of the seven seas.
  It has shown upon laborers in the fields,
  Into the windows of homes,
  And shops, and factories.
  
  It has beheld cities with gleaming towers,
  And also the hovels of the poor.
  It has been witness to both good and evil,
  The works of honest men and women and
  The conspiracy of knaves.
  
  It has seen marching armies, bomb-blasted villages
  And "the destruction that wasteth at noonday."
  Now, unsullied from its tireless journey,
  It comes to us,
  Messenger of the morning.
  Harbinger of a new day.

  Clinton Lee Scott

  Morning, Home, Army

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• One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field particularly rewarding, especially in attempting to improve the theory, is that... a chief criterion for the selection of a correct hypothesis... seems to be the criterion of beauty, simplicity, or elegance.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Adventure, Science, Simplicity

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