Field Quotes
2593 Field quotes by 1816 unique authors
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People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the…
— Aasif Mandvi
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In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building…
— China Mieville
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I daydream just like everybody else. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention.
— Greg Maddux
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It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster,…
— John Malkovich
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I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis…
— Jane Goodall
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When you talk about aiding this country against that country or about fighting terrorism, when you actually take that decision and strip it down, it…
— Robert D. Kaplan
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... pay attention to everything within the field of view.
— Andreas Feininger
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Well, of course I would choose to be the top scientist in my field.
— Jeff Goldblum
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So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen…
— Jeremy Irons
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The Adversary seldom loses when you play on his playing field. It's called the home court advantage.
— Randall Wright
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Proper praying is like a person who wanders through a field gathering flowers-one by one, until they make a beautiful bouquet. In the same manner,…
— Nachman of Breslov
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Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field.
— Thomas Traherne
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Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study - ourselves.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory opinions; for we…
— Carl Jung
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To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an…
— William Cowper
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The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases,…
— Adolf Hitler
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Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am…
— Thomas Edward Brown
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Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without…
— Joe Greene
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The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known…
— Barry Commoner
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It is, indeed, part of the liberal attitude to assume that, especially in the economic field, the self-regulating forces of the market will somehow bring…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have…
— Emily Carr
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I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor,…
— Graham Swift
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Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every time you go…
— Joe Montana
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
— Carl Lewis
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Public intellectuals come from a range of areas and use their expertise to comment more widely than just their field. They want to make a…
— Susie Orbach
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