Fields Quotes

• Out in the field, you haven't got anyone whispering into your ear saying all sorts of things, you've got to do it yourself.

  

  Richie Benaud
  • Ears
  • Havens
  • Whispering

• We are perhaps too near the age of transition to see clearly the interplay of all that made for progress. Each of us has had his own peculiar training, his own personal contact with the mighty ones of the immediate past; and this forms as it were a telescopic tube determining limits to our field of vision. No doubt we may range the whole horizon; but after all we look from our own point of vantage.

  

  Cargill Gilston Knott
  • Age
  • Vision
  • Training

• If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped by the instructions of those you've chosen to follow. Twenty people in the field and eighty thousand in the stands. The spectators are the ones who paid to watch, but it's the player on the field who are truly alive.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Writing
  • Player

• Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • Evil
  • Fields

• I have always been determined to never compromise my faith or my principles. I always relied on my God-given talent when I took the field. So the idea of using PED's to enhance my performance was a line I chose not to cross.

  

  King Fish
  • Ideas
  • Talent
  • Lines

• 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

• Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. These are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and conceive another set that can replace them.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Games
  • Individual
  • Break

• It's fun to get out in the field. I really enjoy that. It's fun creating.

  

  Tom Kite
  • Fun
  • Enjoy
  • Creating

• Anytime I'm on the field and my teammates are on the field with me, I just want them to have fun.

  

  Chris Johnson
  • Fun
  • Fields
  • Teammate

• Chicago is a wonderful area because it's blessed with a tremendous number of museums of various sorts, not only the Art Institute of Chicago but the Field Museum of Natural History, the Oriental Museum on the south side.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Art
  • Blessed
  • Chicago

• If you buy a man who is half dead, everybody may be happy off the field, but on the field you'll have major problems

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • May
  • Problem
  • Half

• The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment - anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion - and that is one of its greatest strengths.

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • Opinion
  • Criticism
  • Internet

• I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest to me. I'm interested in the way these fields have helped us understand how we are human and why we are human. I'm also from the area that is considered to be the cradle of mankind.

  

  Wangechi Mutu
  • Humans
  • Mankind
  • Evolution

• Into the air, over the valleys, under the stars, above a river, a pond, a road, flew Cecy. Invisible as new spring winds, fresh as the breath of clover rising from twilight fields, she flew.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Air
  • Spring
  • Twilight

• We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Believe
  • Future
  • Form

• Reardan is the rich white farm town that sits in the wheat fields exactly 22 miles away from the Rez. And it's a hick town I suppose filled with farmers and rednecks and racists cops who stop every Indian that drives through. During one week when I was little dad got stopped three times for DWI- Driving While Indian.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Driving
  • Rich
  • Week

• 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
  • World
  • Kind
  • Should

• Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and time-warping effects occur.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Changed
  • Discovery
  • Dramatic

• Fifa stands for discipline, respect, fair-play, not just on the field of play, but in our society as well.

  

  Sepp Blatter
  • Discipline
  • Fields

• I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • War
  • Peace
  • Government

• My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Soul
  • Pain
  • Fields

• As a child, I liked to play outside, to stroll through the fields, and I was an active member of the local children's gang, frequently being chased by field guards and building supervisors. Nevertheless, my performance at school was very good, and mainly due to the influence of my mother, I was allowed to attend high school.

  

  Hartmut Michel
  • School
  • Child
  • Influence

• Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.

  

  George Sarton
  • Teacher
  • Humility
  • Greater

• Our main inspiration with Alix MacKenzie, I think, came from the Field Museum of Natural History, because they had pieces which were selected not for art content but for their relationship to the anthropological history of mankind.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Art
  • Inspiration
  • Natural

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