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“A bloody and complete victory has sometimes yielded no more than the possession of the field and the loss of ten thousand men has sometimes been sufficient to destroy, in a single day, the work of ages.”

Men Sometimes Age Loss Fields Victory Thousand Ten Possession Sufficient Bloody

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

“If we clear the air of the fog of catchwords which surround the conduct of war, and grasp that in the human will lies the source and mainspring of all conflict, as of all other activities of man's life, it becomes clear that our object in war can only be attained by the subjugation of the opposing will. All acts, such as defeat in the field, propaganda, blockade, diplomacy, or attack on the centres of government and population, are seen to be but means to that end.”

“Education Secretary Arne Duncan spurned the opportunity to condemn thousands of Wisconsin public school teachers for lying about being 'sick' and shutting down at least eight school districts across the state to attend capitol protests (many of whom dragged their students on a social justice field trip with them). Instead, Duncan defended teachers for 'doing probably the most important work in society.' Only striking government teachers could win federal praise for not doing their jobs.”

“Check the records; there has never been an undisciplined person who was a champion. Regardless of the field of endeavor, you'll find this to be true.”

Persons Records Fields Checks Being True Champion Endeavor Undisciplined

Book:Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance

Source: Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance

“I asked him what he wanted to do for his career, and he replied that he wanted to go into a particular field, but thought he should work for McKinsey for a few years first to add to his resume. To me that's like saving sex for your old age. It makes no sense.”

Should Years Firsts Age Wanted Sex Careers Fields Particular Add Old Age Saving Resumes

Author:Warren Buffett

“I think that creative people, wherever they are, in any field, take inspiration wherever they can find it.”

People Thinking Inspiration Creative Fields Creative People

Author:Simon de Pury

“I found a treehouse. I found this weird tree, out in a field, and someone had put a piece of a fence, way up in a tree. I just went up there and went to sleep for a few hours, in full cowboy regalia. And someone did take a photo. I have a photo of it, somewhere. It brought me back to when I was 12 years old, sitting in a treehouse and imagining that I was in a Western somewhere.”

Way Years Found Hours Sleep Pieces Tree Fields Sitting Western Cowboy Fence Treehouses

Author:James Badge Dale

“What children and the landing of a plane most have in common is that they are best made by a line drive of pilot lights guided through a single tambourine across the day we met in a field of wet metal hands on The Gospel of Lightning.”

Children Made Hands Light Lines Common Fields Mets Planes Metals Pilots Wet Lightning Landing

Author:Buddy Wakefield

“You see the assets of your actors and you see their strengths and you try to play into them. It's like I feel part of my job is as a coach. I'm putting a team on the field and you want to formulate how to make the best game out of these players.”

Want Feels Trying Play Jobs Actors Games Player Team Fields Coaches Assets

Author:James Mangold

“Anyone will succeed in whatever field of endeavor in life by acquiring the same virtues and character that boxing world champions do - dedication, perseverance, courage, extreme self-discipline and prayers”

World Self Character Prayer Virtue Fields Discipline Succeed Perseverance Extremes Champion Boxing Endeavor Dedication Self Discipline World Champions

Author:Manny Pacquiao

“Checklists turn out...to be among the basic tools of the quality and productivity revolution in aviation, engineering, construction - in virtually every field combining high risk and complexity. Checklists seem lowly and simplistic, but they help fill in for the gaps in our brains and between our brains.”

Helping Seems Turns Brain Quality Risk Fields Revolution Tools Productivity Complexity Aviation Gaps Construction Engineering Combining High Risk Checklists

Author:Atul Gawande

“The interesting thing is the field is so big - it's enormous. One thing a modern civilization needs is energy.”

Needs Bigs Energy Interesting One Thing Modern Fields Civilization Enormous Interesting Things Modern Civilization

Author:Charlie Munger

“If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves.”

Ifs Years Children Hands House Fields Our Children Jew Graves All Time Substance Curse Your Children Gentleman Counting Descendants

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.”

Rich Fire Fields All Time Explanation

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty.”

Men Mind Art Fields Research Empty Objectives Fellowship Preoccupation Unattainable Scientific Research

Book:The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

“The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise. In my experience, the people closest to the problems are often in the best position to see the solutions. The key here is to empower and not be the bottleneck.”

People Problem Fields Position Keys Solutions Empowering Closest Commanders Bottlenecks

Author:Colin Powell

“The brightest minds in our field have been trying to find a definition of science fiction for these past seventy years. The short answer is, science fiction stories are given as possible, not necessarily here and now, but somewhere, sometime.”

Trying Years Mind Has Beens Stories Past Given Answers Fiction Fields Science Fiction Definitions Seventies Here And Now Fiction Stories

Book:Scatterbrain

Source: Scatterbrain

“Enlightened legislation or enlightened social activity of whatever kind, does play into the hands of people with agendas of their own. If you legalize euthanasia, you provide a field day for people who like killing other people.”

People Ifs Kind Doe Play Hands Social Fields Activity Killing Enlightened Agendas Legislation Euthanasia Killing Others

Author:J. G. Ballard

“In many fields of the administration of interventionist measures, favoritism simply cannot be avoided.”

Fields Administration Avoided Favoritism

Book:Human Action

Source: Human Action

“Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.”

Modern Fields Research University Pursuit Department Devoted Ideological

Book:The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America

Source: The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America

“It would of course be a great step forward if we succeeded in combining the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field into a single structure. Only so could the era in theoretical physics inaugurated by Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell be brought to a satisfactory close.”

Ifs Courses Steps Fields Structure Physics Eras Theoretical Steps Forward Combining Clerks Maxwell Theoretical Physics

Author:Albert Einstein

“Matter is regarded as being constituted by a region of space in which the field is extremely intense . . . . . . There is no place in this new kind of Physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.”

Kind Matter Reality Space Fields Physics Intense Regions

Author:Paul Davies

“Not even the Emerald Isle itself was as green as the grass that grew in Ebbets Field.”

Fields Grew Green Grass Isle Emeralds

Author:Duke Snider

“In the LBO field there is a buried "covariance" with marketable equities, toward disaster in generally bad business conditions, and competition is now extremely intense.”

Conditions Fields Competition Disaster Intense Buried Equity Bad Business

Author:Charlie Munger

“The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.”

World Made Reality Fields Photons Quarks

Author:Terence McKenna

“Writers are interested in a diverse range of subjects, but prefer to move from field to field to satisfy intellectual curiosity, rather than devote an entire working life to one particular discipline.”

Moving Subjects Fields Particular Discipline Intellectual Curiosity Range Diverse Working Life Intellectual Curiosity

Book:Careers for Writers & Others Who Have a Way with Words

Source: Careers for Writers & Others Who Have a Way with Words

“I feel like now I have an amazing wife, a super smart child and the opportunity to create in two major fields. Before I had those outlets, my ego was all I had.”

Feels Children Two Opportunity Wife Fields Ego Majors Smart Outlets Super Smart

Author:Kanye West

“It makes me sick to see a superior runner wait behind the field until 200 meters to go and then sprint away. That is immoral. It's both an insult to the other runners and a denigration of his own ability.”

Waiting Ability Behinds Fields Sick Superiors Insult Runners Immoral Meter Sprint

Author:Ron Clarke

“I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.”

People Giving Trying Children Care Jobs Three Interest Hours Week Fields Picks Satisfying

Author:Warren Buffett

“Every good soldier is trained for the battle field. God is prepping you my darlings.”

Fields Battle Very Good Soldier Darling Good Soldiers

Author:Tonto Dikeh

“... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.”

Fields Currents Slow Down Oblivion Slowing

Book:Austerlitz

Source: Austerlitz

“Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers. Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters - or anyone - bringing gifts of 'inside' information or tips. Don't try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.”

Knows Men Trying Seems Loss Information Fields Sticks Investment Reasoning Waiter Barbers Beauticians

Author:Bernard Baruch

“I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition. I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.”

Ifs Want Feels Important Hard Feelings Actors Fields Industry Horse Competition Studios Hard Times Racing Sympathetic Horse Racing

Author:Alan Arkin

“The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't care if it's being trivialized in a thousand ways. Anything can be trivialized. The important point is that it is leveling the playing field of global society. It is creating de-facto an entirely new set of political realities. None of the constipated, oligarchic structures that are resisting this were ever asked. Their greed betrayed them into investing in this in the first place without ever fully grasping what the implications of it were for their larger agenda.”

“I learned pretty quickly that it's your WORK ETHIC that LEVELS THE PLAYING FIELD. Education helps, but I've met failures who have Ph.D.s. I believe the hardest worker is always going to win.”

Believe Helping Winning I Believe Levels Fields Mets Ethics Workers Hardest Work Ethic Playing Fields

Author:Chris Rock

“We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us.”

Years Mind Humans Reality Fall Language Social Fields Materials Thousand Ten Machines Fruit Fifty Engineering Thousand Years Ecology Lap Sowing

Author:Terence McKenna

“I really think there is a very large distinction between synthetic and naturally occurring drugs. ... I think that these plants 'take people' as much as people take the plants. ... When you take one of these ancient, ancient hallucinogens you are locking in to the morphogenetic fields of all the people who ever took it.”

People Thinking Fields Drug Plant Ancient Distinction Synthetic Hallucinogens

Author:Terence McKenna

“I think people who are compelled to achieve never really think they've achieved... I think the moment you get to a place when you think 'Oh I'm a fashion legend' then that's when you're no longer competitive in your field.”

People Thinking Moments Achieve Fashion Fields Legends Compelled

Author:Tom Ford

“There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill off, enslave, harass, and in all ways make an unbearable nuisance of himself to himself.”

Men Way Fields Bigger Efficient Unlimited Unbearable Ingenuity Nuisance Devising

Book:Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“In any field, the Establishment is seldom in pursuit of the truth, because it is composed of those who sincerely believe that they are already in possession of it.”

Believe Fields Truth Is Possession Pursuit Establishment Sincerely

Author:Edwin Thompson Jaynes

“All field sports people are doing is turning an inevitable necessity into a pleasure. If the animal is going to be killed anyway, why not take pleasure in it?”

People Ifs Sports Pleasure Animal Fields Inevitable Why Not

Author:Clarissa Dickson Wright

“And one of the worst effects was that by suppressing critical thought, it also suppressed critical thought in the field of economics and hampered the development of economics - and the country would fall back further and further in the economic competition with the West.”

Country Fall Economic Worst Effects Fields Development Economics Competition West Critical Fall Back Suppressing Economic Competition

Author:Stefan Heym

“I disapproved of the fact that the government here refused to adopt the few reforms that Gorbachev put over in the field of media and the field of culture.”

Facts Government Culture Media Fields Reform Gorbachev

Author:Stefan Heym

“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. What you WANT is irrelevant, what you've CHOSEN is at hand. You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.”

Men Want Self Moments Hands Choices Understanding Existence Fields Possibility Machines Function Infinite Slave What You Want Access Chosen Makers Infinity Self Knowledge Irrelevant

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I think the people who experienced the Apollo missions came away from that experience wondering to themselves, 'When can we get a chance to experience spaceflight?' I've heard that many, many times: that people got into a new career field hoping that they would be able to experience spaceflight.”

People Thinking Would Be Able Chance Wonder Careers Heard Fields Missions Apollo New Car Spaceflight New Career

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.”

Kind Written Fields Admire Performers Top Performers

Author:Jack Kirby

“When it was time to talk about Warcraft we took our time, we knew what the story was going to be, we had a field general in Duncan Jones. Same thing with Godzilla, we kind of measured twice, cut once.”

Kind Stories Cutting Fields Our Time Duncan Godzilla

Author:Thomas Tull

“The old rule in Massachusetts politics is shape of the field determines the winner. If you have got a whole bunch of hawks, all the way from [Mike] Huckabee all the way across to [Chris]Christie, that covers the spectrum on every other issue, all hawks, all hawks, and one guy out there saying, not me, Jimmy Carter won that way back in `76. I know it`s 1,000 years ago.”

Ifs Knows Way Years Whole Guy Issues Fields Shapes Years Ago Determine Bunch Winner Mike Spectrum Jimmy Carter Hawks Massachusetts Christie

Author:Chris Matthews

“The quibble I have with President [Barack] Obama is,and I think some other people will have it, too is that the rhetoric is fine, and identifying the problem is fine. But it`s to use a football analogy, he sort of pushes it into the red zone, and then tends to settle for a field goal.”

People Thinking Use Problem Goal President Fields Football Fine Red Barack Settling Zone Rhetoric Analogies President Barack Obama Identifying

Author:Barack Obama

“All my playmates were black. I lived in a little community called Archery (ph) in a rural area. And I didn't have any white neighbors at all. So all my kids with whom I fought and wrestled and went fishing and worked in the field and so forth were African-Americans. And that was my life. So when I got to be school age, we had to separate during the daytime, but I always felt like I was in an alien environment when I was in Plains, Georgia with white kids. I was eager to get back where I belonged with my black playmates.”

Littles Kids Age School Felt Black Community White Environment Fields Areas Neighbor Aliens African American Fishing Get Back Georgia Daytime Archery Rural Areas

Author:Jimmy Carter

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