Fields Quotes - Page 34

• When I'm in the field, when I'm working, I keep very careful notes. I wear big shirts with big breast pockets, and I carry in them two little spiral notebooks.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Notebook, Two, Pockets

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• Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.

  Peter Kreeft

  Christian, Art, Media

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• I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift electronic communication... Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously...

  Lee De Forest

  Communication, Kitchen, Baking

  "Dawn of the Electronic Age" by Lee De Forest, blog.modernmechanix.com. January 1952.

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• To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances.

  Lee De Forest

  Dream, Future, Men

  "De Forest Says Space Travel Is Impossible". "Lewiston Morning Tribune" Newspaper, February 25, 1957.

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• Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who knew them practically by heart, had the greatest respect for them, and considered them to be men of genius and superior intelligence who had carried their discoveries in every field much further than we today suspect, judging from what remains of their writings. More ancient writings have been lost than have been preserved, and perhaps our new discoveries are of less value than those that we have lost.

  Francis Atterbury

  Writing, Heart, Men

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• Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Ideas, Different, Hiv

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• When the iPhone was first announced, CEO Steve Jobs spewed enough BS to cover a football field full of babies 3 feet deep in bullshit, which sounds cool because he could have potentially murdered a football field full of babies, but he passed on this opportunity by introducing the phone instead.

  Maddox

  Football, Baby, Jobs

  "The iPhone is a piece of shit, and so is your face". www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net.

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• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  Earl Weaver

  Littles, Matter, Middle

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• The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game.

  Wim Crouwel

  Football, Games, Play

  "Beautiful Games: stylised football posters", www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2013.

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• Geoff Muldaur was and is one of my musical heroes. When I listen to him sing and play, I can hear the coal mine, the cotton field, and last, but certainly foremost, the boy's boarding school.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Hero, School, Boys

  "Geoff Muldaur Takes Texas Sheiks On The Road". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 7, 2009.

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• In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the children’s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories I’ve been hearing noised about for ages, but with a lot more detail and authenticity. The stories may not be quite as sordid as my own imagination had conjured up—although a few of them are—because there’s no denying that this field is full of mostly nice people!—but it’s all fun and a great read for anyone interested in both children’s books and the collection of people who make them.

  Paul O. Zelinsky

  Children, Fun, Nice

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• You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the widow and the orphan.

  Clarence W. Barron

  Support, Widows, Financial

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• When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary ideas.

  Frans Johansson

  Ideas, Numbers, Discipline

  Frans Johansson (2006). “The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us about Innovation”, p.2, Harvard Business Press

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• The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.

  James Russell Lowell

  Night, White, Snow

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.631, Delphi Classics

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• Prayer irrigates the fields of life with the waters which are stored up in the reservoirs of promise.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Water, Promise

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “According to Promise”, p.41, Gideon House Books

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• Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!

  Billy Graham

  Prayer, Office, Athletic

  Billy Graham (1995). “Secret of happiness, The”

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• I have done a lot of things off the field but I feel like in my heart I dont really have to publicize what I do for people because it is from my heart.

  Terrell Owens

  Heart, People, Done

  "T.O. with Terrell Owens". Interview with Victor Kelly, www.ign.com. July 8, 2004.

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• Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Intellectual, Investing

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• We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out. When they tore down Ebbets Field, they tore down a little piece of me.

  Duke Snider

  Air, Lovely, Balls

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

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• Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley.

  Paul Fussell

  July, Air, Iron

  Paul Fussell (2013). “The Great War and Modern Memory”, p.68, Oxford University Press

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• Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's because in a country that prides itself on being egalitarian, sport is intellectually and socio-economically an equal playing field. In fact, the more humble your background, the better, the underdog-turned champion is a narrative that resonates powerfully. We're far less interested in the stories of our best doctors, writers, lawyers, engineers, teachers or social workers. Their triumphs do not capture our collective imaginations.

  Mia Freedman

  Sports, Country, Teacher

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• I am most proud about the science I've done with my own two hands because I have always thought that even if your life path takes you into a leadership position outside the area you were known for, your legitimacy remains in that first field.

  Gustav Nossal

  Leadership, Hands, Two

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• This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal, nuclear power, solar energy, and so on. This is fantastical because the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity: it is moral ignorance and weakness of character. We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.

  Wendell Berry

  Ignorance, Character, Oil

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.20, Counterpoint

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• Even though the body appears to be material, it is not. In the deeper reality, your body is a field of energy, transformation and intelligence.

  Deepak Chopra

  Reality, Energy, Body

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Grow Younger, Live Longer: Ten steps to reverse ageing”, p.33, Random House

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• Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, does that mean I'm cocky? Does that mean I'm arrogant?

  Rickey Henderson

  Cocky, Mean, Games

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