Fields Quotes - Page 33

• She's learned to listen more and improve different aspects of her game. I'm most proud that she's improved her sportsmanship, her demeanor on the field. She's still working on leadership and that's improving.

  Elaine Jones

  Games, Sportsmanship, Different

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• That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Motivational, Succeed, Pops

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• There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Country, Garden, Cities

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.48

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• My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you. You'll be singing for the world someday.

  Johnny Cash

  Mother, Art, Hands

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• They have more ability in the middle of the field in terms of ability

  Jimmy Armfield

  Soccer, Middle, Ability

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• We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Feelings, Historical, Theatre

  Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (1964). “Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic”

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• The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles. The mystery of India, say Indologists.

  Gunter Grass

  Men, Oxen, Forever

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• He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow

  Saadi

  Learning, Men, Life Is Like

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• The quicksilver of creativity will not be solidified by legal pronouncement; it will necessarily flow into new and sometimes frightening fields.

  Mathew Tobriner

  Creativity, Flow, Sometimes

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• Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet

  Max Beerbohm

  Genius, Sometimes, Natural

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• Massage's history is rooted in technique and body knowledge, but is also about heart, healing intention and connection between therapist and client. A tension - sometimes constructive, other times uncomfortable - has been prevalent in the field between one impulse toward structure and recognition and another toward freedom and flexibility to be responsive to individual circumstances

  Bob Benson

  Healing, Heart, Technique

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• The single largest frustration in the massage field is the waste of resources and training resulting from high attrition among those who start practicing massage therapy. While some affected individuals may have made an ill-suited vocational choice and others underestimated the profession's physical demands, most appear to stumble in assembling the self-confidence and persistent salesmanship necessary to develop a professional practice

  Bob Benson

  Self Confidence, Frustration, Practice

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• In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.

  John Ruskin

  Independent, Sky, House

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• The field of U.S. cancer care is organized around a medical monopoly that ensures a continuous flow of money to the pharmaceutical companies, medical technology firms, research institutes, and government agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and quasi-public organizations such as the American Cancer Society (ACS).

  John Diamond

  Cancer, Technology, Organization

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• The challenge of ending displacement is inseparable from the challenge of establishing and maintaining peace. When wars end, farmers return to their fields; children return to school; violence against women declines; trade and economic activity resume; medical and other services become more accessible, and the international focus changes from relief to development and self-sufficiency. All this makes new wars less likely. It is a virtuous cycle that deserves nurture and support.

  Kenneth Bacon

  Children, War, School

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• We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. From our leaders and the media they use to reach the public, we accept the evidence and the demarcation of issues bearing upon public questions; from some ethical teacher, be it a minister, a favorite essayist, or merely prevailing opinion, we accept a standardized code of social conduct to which we conform most of the time.

  Edward Bernays

  Leadership, Teacher, Issues

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.5, Lulu.com

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• Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

  Maya Lin

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

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• Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. ... When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.126, New World Library

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• His herding instinct is so strong that he confuses tractors on a baseball field for sheep. He was hospitalized twice. Once by a line drive and once for attacking a tractor tread.

  Tom Hayden

  Funny, Baseball, Dog

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• The story goes that I first had the idea for The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck.

  Douglas Adams

  Lying, Ideas, Drunk

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts".

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• Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly into heaven, without having blown the trumpet loud and long for our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Let us see to it that the devil will hold a thanksgiving service in hell, when he gets the news of our departure from the field of battle.

  Charles Studd

  Jesus, Long, Heaven

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• I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice-and from that all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow. We've become more materialistic. For balance, I think we need to get back to idealism and patriotism, but also be realistic with our monetary goals.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Dream, Thinking, Goal

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• Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.

  Lou Holtz

  April, Wanted

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• My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.

  Alexander Kotov

  Hard Work, Learning, Achievement

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• Stars are the daisies that begem
  The blue fields of the sky.

  David Macbeth Moir

  Stars, Blue, Sky

  David Macbeth Moir (1852). “The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir”, p.157

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