Field Quotes

2593 Field quotes by 1816 unique authors

No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field. — Howard Gardner
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet,… — Metrodorus of Chios
..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle. — George Washington
Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or… — William H. Gass
It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak at the touch… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained… — John Kenneth Galbraith
I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just… — Donovan Bailey
Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by… — Daniel Boone
Of all the ills of man which can be successfully processed by Scientology, arthritis ranks near the top. In skilled hands, this ailment, though misunderstood… — L. Ron Hubbard
I believe that great success is possible in any field — from music to mathematics to macro trading. — Paul Tudor Jones
My off-the-cuff remarks at the University of Virginia were with regard to global macro traders, who are on-call 24/7 and of whom there are likely… — Paul Tudor Jones
Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were… — Ben Bernanke
I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that… — Miriam Toews
The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the… — Bill Klem
But psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, 'describing things which everyone knows in… — Raymond Cattell
One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of causation may separate… — Jared Diamond
The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read. — Guy Kawasaki
Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We… — Gary Burton
Anthropology studies different cultures; mainly primitive, but it doesn't think its own culture is primitive, unfortunately. Â There is no field that you can study… — Jacque Fresco
I learned early on to never walk while I was on the ball field. I ran everywhere I went. — Enos Slaughter
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field. — Bill Crawford
The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field — Gerry Mulligan
Baseball is something more than a game to an American boy; it is his training field for life’s work. Destroy his faith in its squareness… — Kenesaw Mountain Landis
All Citizens United did was to level the playing field for corporate speech. We now have, I think, the most free and open system we've… — Mitch McConnell
Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing… — Anton Chekhov

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