Fields Quotes - Page 37

• A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character, he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends, and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.

  Leigh Hunt

  Friendship, Dream, Dog

  Leigh Hunt (1835). “The Indicator and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and Fire-side”, p.214

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• It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is abysmally ignorant. He can't read, can't drive a car, and has no grasp of mathematics. But in his own field of endeavor, which he is now practicing, the slow, imperial smelling over and anointing on an area, he has no peer. Of course his horizons are limited, but how wide are mine?

  John Steinbeck

  Friendship, Dog, Intelligent

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• Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!

  Rachael Ray

  Jobs, Done, Want

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• Tuesday's victory was big. But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Tuesday, Giving, Victory

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• I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field

  Scott Bakula

  Hurt, Creativity, Thinking

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• I was scared every time I put on a uniform and stepped on the field. I’m scared every day I go into the studio and I come on stage because I fear that I will not live up to what is expected. I fear that somebody who spent a lot of money to come into our studio, to come to New York and they’ll walk away and go, ‘I could have stayed at home.’ I feared that as a player a fan would come to the stands and I wouldn’t perform well. Just the way I’m built. I’m more scared of failure than I am excited about the accolades that come with success.

  Michael Strahan

  New York, Home, Player

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• By close-ups of the things around us, by focusing on hidden details of familiar objects, by exploring commonplace milieus under the ingenious guidance of the camera, the film, on the one hand, extends our comprehension of the necessities which rule our lives; on the other hand, it manages to assure us of an immense and unexpected field of action.

  Walter Benjamin

  Hands, Cameras, Unexpected

  "Illuminations".

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• Futility Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know. Think how it wakes the seeds, - Woke, once, the clays of a cold star. Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides, Full-nerved -still warm -too hard to stir? Was it for this the clay grew tall? -O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?

  Wilfred Owen

  Morning, Stars, Kindness

  1918 'Futility', collected in Poems (published1920).

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• It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet.

  Cybill Shepherd

  Would Be, Women's Health, Next

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• We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.

  Werner Herzog

  Would Be, Cows

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

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• The term comics long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. It merely defined the content of the early joke-based comical strips. Sequential Art is a more accurate description of the form. I first suggested it because I believed something needed to be done to correct the feeling of inferiority by artists and writers in this field.

  Will Eisner

  Art, Long Ago, Feelings

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• Why who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know nothing else but miracles, whether they be animals feeding in the fields, Or, birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air, Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring; These, with the rest, one and all, are to me, miracles.

  Walt Whitman

  Stars, Spring, Moon

  Walt Whitman, “Miracles”

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• To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Would Be, Steps, Constitution

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• Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all... My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul. My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is 'Lord, I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

  E. M. Forster

  Atheist, Believe, Mind

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• I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny... I forgive him everything.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Hate, Dirty, Book

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• I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit

  Ron Silver

  Education, People, Actors

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• When I'm anchoring, I miss chasing stories in the field.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Missing, Stories, Literature

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• There are still psychologists who, in a basic misunderstanding, think that gestalt theory tends to underestimate the role of past experience. Gestalt theory tries to differentiate between and-summative aggregates, on the one hand, and gestalten, structures, on the other, both in sub-wholes and in the total field, and to develop appropriate scientific tools for investigating the latter.

  Max Wertheimer

  Thinking, Past, Hands

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• I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me.

  Robert Frost

  Spiritual, Healing, Profound

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• In this state of inner connectedness, you are much more alert, more awake than in the mind-identified state. You are fully present. It also raises the vibrational frequency of the energy field that give life to the physical body.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Giving, Mind, Energy

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.20, New World Library

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• A monumental decision such as starting a family requires persuasive dissertations, licences, spreadsheets and field research. That's what I assumed until one night when we were lying in bed and, if I recall correctly, I asked Tracy if we were ready to have a family now, and she said sure. That was it.

  Ryan Knighton

  Lying, Night, Decision

  Ryan Knighton (2010). “C'mon Papa: Dispatches from a Dad in the Dark”, p.9, Knopf Canada

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• Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

  Ed Royce

  Energy, Want, Matter

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• Environmental historians . . . insist that we have got to go . . . down to the earth itself as an agent and presence in history. Here we will discover even more fundamental forces at work over time. And to appreciate those forces we must now and then get out of parliamentary chambers, out of birthing rooms and factories, get out of doors altogether, and ramble into fields, woods, and the open air. It is time we bought a good set of walking shoes, and we cannot avoid getting some mud on them.

  Donald Worster

  Air, Doors, Shoes

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• It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Philosophical, Thinking, Analysis

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.88, University of Chicago Press

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• Within this arena, which grows more stable night after day, generations work and love and hope and vanish. New generations tread on the corpses of their fathers, continue the work above the abyss and struggle to tame the dread mystery. How? By cultivating a single field, by kissing a woman, by studying a stone, an animal, an idea.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Father, Struggle, Kissing

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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