Fields Quotes

• I find that I'm always struggling with the noise of the city. When I get a good take, there will be a horn or a siren or something. So it makes me very conscious of outside sounds, which in a way maybe led me to incorporate the field recordings.

  

  Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons
  • Struggle
  • Cities
  • Conscious

• Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events.

  

  George Kubler
  • Forever
  • Events
  • Lighthouse

• The invitation come from some institution who really involving so-called my own profession, these fields. And then different universities or education sort of institution, I feel that is the place where the awareness of these things to start and to spread a more human community. So then on that level, yes, I have some obligation.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Different
  • Education
  • Community

• The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Keys
  • Purple
  • Monochrome

• It's off the leg and into the left field of Doug Rader.

  

  Jerry Coleman
  • Funny
  • Baseball
  • Humor

• Mae, he made me go out for a run," Jamie called out. "Tell him I don't run!" "Jamie and I are lilies of the field. We toil not, neither do we jog," Mae informed Nick.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Running
  • Fields
  • Mae

• Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.

  

  Virgil Thomson
  • Writing
  • Nice
  • Jobs

• Success comes when you do what you love to do, and commit to being the best in your field.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • Commit
  • Being The Best

• He (Hitler) is thinking about the peasant girls. When they stand in the fields and bend down at their work so that you can see their behinds, that's what he likes, especially when they've got big round ones. That's Hitler's sex life. What a man.

  

  Ernst Rohm
  • Girls
  • Hitler
  • Sex Life

• One of my guiding principles is don't do anything that other people are doing. Always do something a little different if you can. The concept is that if you do it a little differently there is a greater potential for reward than if you the same thing that other people are doing. I think that this kind of goal for one's work, having obviously the maximum risk, would have the maximum reward no matter what the field may be.

  

  Seymour Cray
  • People
  • Different
  • Kind

• I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.

  

  Ricky Williams
  • Football
  • Persons
  • Honest

• If you're a conservation biologist in many fields, you're seeing your study subject disappear. People are in the position where they're chronicling radical decline, and that is not a position that conservation biologists want to be in.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Conversation
  • Disappear
  • Decline

• When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.

  

  Ryan Sypek
  • Real
  • Play
  • Baseball

• Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fields
  • Mistress
  • Lilies

• We gathered the wild-flowers. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight; As thro' the field we rov'd. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight.

  

  George Linley
  • Life
  • Seems
  • Delight

• Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss....

  

  Robert Frost
  • Fields
  • Windows

• The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and convulsions it has suffered.

  

  William Buckland
  • Revolution
  • Monument
  • Inquiry

• One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.

  

  Walter M. Fitch
  • People
  • Problem
  • Research

• Like Neanderthals, men prefer to hunt alone or, if in a pack, at the head of it. Women, whether in the field or in a campfire, are collaborative, and when they hunt...they work together.

  

  Russell Banks
  • Together
  • Hunts
  • Campfire

• Most intellectuals outside the field of economics show remarkably little interest in learning even the basic fundamentals of economics. Yet they do not hesitate to make sweeping pronouncements about the economy in general, businesses in particular, and the many issues revolving around what is called 'income distribution'.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Interest
  • Economy
  • Economics

• Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,-render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Eye

• I learned not to fear infinity, The far field, the windy cliffs of forever, The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow, The wheel turning away from itself, The sprawl of the wave, The on-coming water.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Water
  • Forever
  • Tomorrow

• I went to an all-girls private school, where we played field hockey and lacrosse.

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • School
  • Girl
  • Hockey

• I have both exploited and been exploited in the print field.

  

  Red Grooms
  • Fields
  • Print
  • Exploited

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