Fields Quotes - Page 36

• That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set - the set of people who don't give up.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Successful

  Leonard Mlodinow (2008). “The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives”, p.14, Vintage

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• I would be inclined to say 'if you are not willing to cooperate and follow the rules of your international federation you are not the right track and field association to be part of the USOC.

  Dick Pound

  Track, Would Be, Association

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• Thomas Ligotti is an absolute master of supernatural horror and weird fiction, and a true original. He pursues his unique vision with admirable honesty and rigorousness and conveys it in prose as powerfully evocative as any writer in the field. I'd say he might just be a genius.

  Ramsey Campbell

  Honesty, Unique, Vision

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• Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry: "More light." Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon. Incandescent. Lights that banish the darkness from our caves, to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's field. Little tiny flashlight for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor... Light is knowledge. Light is life. Light is light.

  Diane Frolov

  Book, Knowledge, Night

  "Northern Exposure". www.imdb.com. 1990-1995.

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• The particular, eternally persisting, elementary physical stuff of the world, according to the standard presentations of relativistic quantum field theories, consists (unsurprisingly) of relativistic quantum fields... They have nothing whatsoever to say on the subject of where those fields came from, or of why the world should have consisted of the particular kinds of fields it does, or of why it should have consisted of fields at all, or of why there should have been a world in the first place. Period. Case closed. End of story.

  David Albert

  Should Have, Doe, Stories

  "On the Origin of Everything". www.nytimes.com. March 23, 2012.

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• A single ear of corn in a large field is as strange as a single world in infinite space.

  Metrodorus of Chios

  Space, Ears, World

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• No one...can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a seepage. Becoming someone else or worse: becoming nothing but the vibratory field between two people.

  Chris Kraus

  Loss, Two, People

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• Does the engineer ever predict the acceleration of a given body from a knowledge of its mass and of the forces acting upon it? Of course. Does the chemist ever measure the mass of an atom by measuring its acceleration in a given field of force? Yes. Does the physicist ever determine the strength of a field by measuring the acceleration of a known mass in that field? Certainly. Why then, should any one of these roles be singled out as the role of Newton's second law of motion? The fact is that it has a variety of roles.

  Brian Ellis

  Law, Acting, Body

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• Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but
  that society is now a reflex of key shifts in music theory and practice....
  [Sampladelia is] the sound made by those early-twentieth-century discoveries
  in particle physics and relativiity theory, the projection of the minds of
  Einstein, Heisenbery, and Bohr, their fateful explorations of liquid time,
  curving space, uncertainty fields and relativity theorems, into densely
  configured and fully ambivalent android music tracks

  Arthur Kroker

  Discovery, Practice, Space

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• A chainsaw's God's way of evening out the playing field between you and everything, even the invisible stuff.

  Jennifer L. Knox

  Stuff, Way, Evening

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• Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pines—generous, gum-yielding trees—to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay.

  Amy Gerstler

  Fear, Vegetables, Snakes

  Amy Gerstler (2000). “Medicine”, p.21, Penguin

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• As a former NFL athlete, my quality of play on the field was in direct correlation to how I took care of my body. Bulletproof has many practical principles and tips on how, as men, we can thrive and not just survive as we get older. This is a must read.

  Devon McDonald

  Athlete, Men, Play

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• As the field of coaching finds its way to becoming a mature discipline, James Flaherty's dedicated field research, study, and sound articulation offers a definitive ground and a sensibility of genuine care. At the core this book offers a way of thinking about human beings that makes action and practice central to learning. This is a no-nonsense, generous, pragmatic book that belongs on the shelf every coach, novice or veteran.

  Richard Strozzi-Heckler

  Book, Thinking, Practice

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• Go with your love to the fields.
  Lie down in the shade. Rest your head
  in her lap. Swear allegiance
  to what is nighest your thoughts.
  
  As soon as the generals and the politicos
  can predict the motions of your mind,
  lose it. Leave it as a sign
  to mark the false trail, the way
  you didn't go.
  
  Be like the fox
  who makes more tracks than necessary,
  some in the wrong direction.
  Practice resurrection.

  Wendell Berry

  Lying, Practice, Track

  Wendell Berry, “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front”

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• In the fields of opportunity it's plowing time again.

  Neil Young

  Opportunity, Plowing

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• A weathered skeleton
  in windy fields of memory,
  piercing like a knife.

  Matsuo Basho

  Memories, Skeletons, Knives

  Matsuo Basho, “A Weathered Skeleton”

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• Games are won by players who focus on the playing field -- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

  Warren Buffett

  Eye, Player, Games

  "Warren Buffett's 5 Rules For Investing" by Sam Ro, www.businessinsider.com. February 24, 2014.

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• All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded you. The speech they weave is a link between you and your human siblings. The consequences that cause sorrow and rapture are the seeds that the past has sown in the field of the soul, and by which the future shall profit.

  Khalil

  Beautiful, Sibling, Book

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• In this earth,
  in this immaculate field,
  we shall not plant any seeds
  except for compassion,
  except for love.

  Rumi

  Compassion, Earth, Plant

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• Life is bliss. It is unbounded, deep within; and it is full of boundaries outside. So we advise the people to turn the attention within, experience that unbounded wholeness of life, and bring the mind out fully saturated with that--start to live unboundedness in the field of boundaries.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  People, Mind, Attention

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• I'm often asked how to start investing with little or no money. Please hear this as this is the hardest thing for people to understand: you do NOT invest with money! You invest with your mind! No matter what the field, your biggest asset is your mind. Once you have knowledge, you find deals, find your team and use other people’s money. You sell the deal and your team to get investment money.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Money, Team

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jun 24, 2013

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• Champions don't become champions in the field---they are merely recognized there.

  Bob Costas

  Champion

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• In today’s world of fear and uncertainty, every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience the field of silence - bliss - the enormous reservoir of energy and intelligence that is deep within all of us. This is the way to save the coming generation.

  David Lynch

  Children, Should Have, Class

  "Paul McCartney signs on for NYC benefit" by Jonathan Cohen, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 27, 2009.

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• An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating

  Wendell Berry

  Cooking, Mind, Eating

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.241, Counterpoint

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• The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength.

  Royal Robbins

  Rocks, Climbing, Battle

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