“When I got into the film world, I got sucked into the secular aspect of the entertainment field and I really drifted away from my faith. Its amazing...as successful as I was as an actor, and the money and the fame, there was still something missing.” WorldStillsFilmActorsSuccessfulMissingFieldsFameAspectEntertainmentSecular Author:Chuck Norris
“Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.” MenPersonsFieldsBaseballGenuineHuntersAnd OffPhonyCatfishBaseball FieldGenuine Person Author:Vida Blue
“Since science is fashionable today, it allows its fraternity to propose cloddish monstrosities as a solution to man's problems in many fields. Fashion rules and, anyway, who but the experts can even dare to speak up?” MenProblemTodaySpeakFashionFieldsSolutionsDareExpertsProposeFashionableFraternityMonstrosity Book:A time for anger: the myth of neutrality Source: A time for anger: the myth of neutrality
“I have a Ph.D. in philosophy and sports science. At 14, I went through this really tough Soviet training system. A lot of my roommates got psychologically broken or physically injured. Either you came through, or you were out. I made my Ph.D. work in the field of young athletes aged 14-19 because at this age any human is changing.” HumansMadePhilosophyAgeYoungSportsFieldsBrokenTrainingToughAthleteSovietInjuredRoommateYoung Athletes Author:Wladimir Klitschko
“The best that can be said for those like Senators Nelson and Landrieu is that they held out until Obama and Reid met their price. By now, I can't even recall what it took to make Joe Lieberman say 'Uncle!' But it just goes to prove that when politicians like these three refer to themselves as moderate Democrats, we should recognize that it's similar to the distinction made in a related field when call girls insist they're not streetwalkers. It's the same profession; only the prices differ.” ShouldMadeSaidI CanGirlThreeFieldsPoliticianMetsProveDemocratProfessionRelatedDistinctionRecallsSenatorsUnclesModeratesNelson Author:Burt Prelutsky
“In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone had a good yardstick for measurement of ability and sensibly applied it.” IfsWould BeAbilityOpinionFieldsManagementDollarsInvestmentBillionsMeasurementInvolvingYardsticksInvestment Management Author:Warren Buffett
“So if you are evaluating others (or yourself!) in the investment field, think out some standards - apply them - interpret them.” IfsThinkingFieldsStandardsInvestment Author:Warren Buffett
“How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is a total absence of a simple human language. With what a sigh of relief one leaves this world of cassocks, and kissing and church gossip. As soon as one leaves, one sees: wet bare branches, fog which floats over fields, trees, homes. Sky. Early dusk. And it all tells an incredibly simple truth.” WorldHumansHomeSpeakLanguageChurchSimpleTreeSkyStyleFieldsThis WorldHabitKissingAbsenceToneBranchesReliefGossipArtificialWetSighFogFloatsDuskSimple TruthsHuman LanguageSigh Of ReliefBare Branches Author:Alexander Schmemann
“Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW.” IfsWritingBookReasonWrittenFieldsAdultsConsequence Author:Terry Pratchett
“These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann's to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.” FieldsPioneersAntidepressants Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates
“We conservatives can win the ideological battles on a level playing field. Our ideas are better. Given fair elections based on contributions from regular voters, instead of $100,000 checks from business-as-usual special interests, we will prevail.” IdeasWinningGivenInterestLevelsSpecialFieldsBattleFairsElectionChecksContributionVotersUsualIdeologicalSpecial InterestsPlaying FieldsLevel Playing Field Author:John McCain
“So many people took my opinion and some will give it more serious consideration because of who I am. Not because I have a specility in this field that I gave my opinion on, but simply because I am a little bit famous. I find that kind of power to presaude both frightening and exciting. My hope, my most frevent hope, is that I use this louder voice that success has given me, wisely. That I always remember that fame is the by product, not the substance of what I do.” PeopleGivingKindLittlesUseRememberGivenBitsVoiceOpinionFieldsSeriousProductsFameLittle BitExcitingWho I AmSubstanceConsiderationFrightening Author:Laurell K. Hamilton
“The only preparation or participation required to unleash the power of intention is a connection to the conscious intelligence field, which can be attained in many ways, one of the best being meditation.” WayMeditationFieldsConsciousConnectionsIntentionPreparationParticipationBeing MePower Of Intention Author:Deepak Chopra
“We are all connected and operate within living fields of thought and perception. The world is not fixed but is in constant flux; accordingly, the future is not fixed, and so can be shaped.” WorldFieldsPerceptionConstantConnectedFixedFlux Book:Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership Source: Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership
“If one works well in a potato field, the potatoes will grow. If one works well among people, they will grow - that's reality. It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.” PeopleIfsKnowsWellsImportantRealityMovingGrowsFieldsMountainPotatoesMove Mountains Author:Danilo Dolci
“When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?” PeopleThinkingMadeTechnologyPlansSacrificeFieldsLaboratoryDefence Author:Abdul Kalam
“Distribution may not matter in fictional worlds, but it matters in most. The Field of Dreams conceit is especially popular in Silicon Valley, where engineers are biased toward building cool stuff rather than selling it. But customers will not come just because you build it. You have to make this happen, and it's harder than it looks.” WorldLooksMayMatterDreamHappensStuffFieldsBuildingHarderCustomersSellingValleysEngineersDistributionConceitBiasedSiliconSilicon ValleyCool StuffFictional WorldsField Of Dreams Author:Peter Thiel
“The most fundamental reason that even businesspeople underestimate the importance of sales is the systematic effort to hide it at every level of every field in a world secretly driven by it.” WorldReasonLevelsEffortFieldsImportanceFundamentalsDrivenUnderestimateSystematic Author:Peter Thiel
“Be praised for all Your tenderness by these works of Your hands, suns that rise and rains that fall to bless and bring to life Your land. Look down upon this winter wheat and be glad that You have made blue for the sky and the color green that fills Your fields with praise.” LooksMadeHandsFallSunSkyLandFieldsColorRainPraiseBlueGreenWinterGladBlessTendernessWheat Author:Rich Mullins
“I've learned that no matter what, my faith will guide me. However I play on the field, I know my faith will guide me. After sports, my faith will guide me. As I've grown in my faith, that's something that's given me comfort. God has taught me that I can trust in Him. No matter what-whether things are good or bad-I know I can always trust in Him. And that has really allowed me to go All In for Him.” KnowsI CanMatterPlayGivenSportsFieldsTaughtComfortNo Matter WhatGuidesI've LearnedGuide Me Author:Marcus Mariota
“I always tweet about where we're at. Since I'm performing at amphitheaters, I'll try to run up and down the stairs and across the field.” TryingRunningFieldsPerformingUp And DownStairsTweet Author:Julianne Hough
“Images are not only visual. They're also auditory, they involve sensuous impressions, bundles of information that come to us through our senses, and mainly through seeing and hearing: the audio-visual field.” SeeingInformationFieldsHearingSensesImpressionVisualsBundlesSensuousAudioAuditoryAudio Visual Author:W. J. T. Mitchell
“I need people to know that there is a group of people who are part of the leadership of the DNC, and I will make damn sure as a vice chair, and so will others, that we do everything humanly possible to have a level playing field.” PeopleKnowsNeedsLevelsGroupsFieldsVicesDamnChairsPlaying FieldsLevel Playing Field Author:Hillary Clinton
“If you look at polls, Hillary Clinton is considered the toughest in a field of men. That`s no small victory for her going towards a general election.” IfsMenLooksFieldsVictoryElectionClintonPollsGeneral ElectionsSmall Victories Author:Joe Conason
“I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's complicated.And it was complicated for me.” ThinkingPersonsHas BeensYoungParentSuccessfulFieldsComplicated Author:Rosanne Cash
“Everything is not going to go right, not just on the field but also in business. There were times I was injured on the field and could not play for a year or more. It was easy to quit and say, "I can't do it anymore." It taught me I can bounce back. It's the same in business.” YearsI CanPlayEasyFieldsTaughtQuittingInjuredBounce Author:Shawne Merriman
“The NFL has done a great job in giving players information on how to go to a second career after football and how to invest their money while they're playing to ensure when their career is over, that they have something else in place to fall back on. One of the big things the NFL does is promote education in different fields.” GivingDoeDifferentDoneBigsJobsFallCareersPlayerInformationFieldsFootballNflBig ThingsFall BackGreat Job Author:Kamerion Wimbley
“To my knowledge nobody - no one who is publishing papers in the main field of AI - is even working on consciousness. I think there are some neuroscientists who are trying to understand it, but I'm not aware that they've made any progress.” ThinkingTryingMadeConsciousnessProgressFieldsPaperPublishingPapers Author:Stuart J. Russell
“I think if you talk to the experts in any field where you have to take on a unknown challenge, where you're going to be working on it for a long time you'd find that to work themselves up to their best performance and really throw themselves into it, you know, spend all these hours in there and ah, give it their... give it their best that optimism plays a role.” IfsThinkingKnowsGivingLongPlayHoursChallengesRolesFieldsLong TimeOptimismPerformancesExpertsBest Performance Author:Bill Gates
“We all say data is the next white oil. [Owning the oil field is not as important as owning the refinery because what will make the big money is in refining the oil. Same goes with data, and making sure you extract the real value out of the data.]” ImportantRealBigsValuesNextWhiteFieldsOilDataRefiningReal ValueRefineryOil Field Author:Maurice Levy
“If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.” IfsNextGenerationsFieldsNext GenerationPlaying Fields Author:M.I.A.
“On a micro level, if we're not terribly lucky, this sort of thing can happen to us quite frequently - the political becoming the personal in dramatic and irreparable ways. I remember the first time I went out into the desert, passing by all these mine fields and getting the history on them from my guide and realizing all these murderous mechanisms were real, were just sitting out there waiting for a victim, and some of them had been for sixty, seventy, eighty years.” IfsWayYearsFirstsRealHappensRememberPoliticalWaitingRealizingLevelsFieldsMinesBecomingLuckySittingFirst TimeVictimGuidesPassingPassingsDesertDramaticMechanismSixtySeventiesEightyIrreparablePassing By Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“When I began to dare to be clear, because I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that are comprehensible, and it's easy to criticize something you can understand.” ThinkingRealEasyClearRiskFieldsDareClarityPoetry IsCriticizeExposedOpen Fields Author:Billy Collins
“I've never wanted to chuck my mortgage, drop the kids off at their grandparents' and run gloriously naked in fields of flax.” RunningKidsWantedFieldsNakedGrandparentMortgageChuckFlax Author:Lauren Groff
“Environmentally, business in America in 1970 was very similar to business in China today. Even if a CEO wanted to be a responsible corporate citizen, he (and they were all "he's" then) simply couldn't invest a billion dollars in pollution controls to produce a product that was indistinguishable from those of his competitors. His products would be priced out of the market. Passing laws that created a clean, level playing field for whole industries had to be a core focus of the 1970s.” IfsWholeWould BeTodayWantedAmericaLawLevelsFocusFieldsProduceProductsIndustryCitizensResponsibleDollarsCleanChinaBillionsCorePassingPassingsCorporatePollutionCeoCompetitorsPlaying FieldsLevel Playing FieldPollution ControlPassing Laws Author:Denis Hayes
“Where Snah [Hans Magnus Ryan] is a melody and texture man, I am more of a riff, rhythm and concept guy. I am much better than him in certain fields, and he surely wipes the floor with me in others, and we both know it's like that.” KnowsMenGuyCertainFieldsConceptsRhythmMelodyWipeTexture Author:Bent Saether
“There is a long and interesting tradition of really marginal left-field music that becomes commercially successful. And I will, for a brief minute, fit into that tradition.” LongLeftInterestingSuccessfulMinutesFieldsFitTraditionLeft Field Author:Moby
“There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding themselves with philosophers and poets, or playwrights. We do not live in that moment, and the best way to gauge the proximity of an academic field to power is by salary.” WayMomentsHumanityFieldsPoetPhilosopherBest WayThat MomentAcademicRulersAssociatesSalaryPlaywrightProximityGauges Author:Elliott Colla
“There's a huge misconception that it's all about the oil, and the truth is there's actually not much oil left in Abyei. The misperception arose because when the peace agreement was signed in 2005, Abyei accounted for a quarter of Sudan's oil production. Since then, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague defined major oil fields to lie outside Abyei. They're in the north now, not even up for grabs, and they account for one percent of the oil in Sudan. The idea that it's "oil-rich Abyei" is out of date.” IdeasLyingLeftRichFieldsHugeTruth IsMajorsPercentAccountsCourtProductionsOilDefinedPermanentAgreementQuartersMisconceptionSudanMisperceptionArbitrationOil ProductionOil Field Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“Sometimes you feel some artists are doing the same thing that you're doing but in a different field. But they have the same approach. Their method of research and gathering data is the same as yours.” FeelsDifferentSometimesArtistFieldsApproachResearchMethodDataGatheringGathering Data Author:Missy Mazzoli
“I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there.” ThinkingDifferentGivenFieldsPoetBackgrounds Author:Victoria Chang
“I have no idea, actually, where I fit in, in terms of poetry camps. At AWP conferences, I have been on panels about humor, collaboration, visual poetry, confessional poetry, gender, and the body, as well as tributes to Edward Field and Albert Goldbarth. I felt at home on all of them - most poets straddle more than one school.” WellsHas BeensIdeasHomeBodySchoolFeltTermFieldsPoetFitGenderNo IdeaVisualsCollaborationCampsConferencesTribute Author:Denise Duhamel
“I see the carpet reflecting that narratological structure of the storytelling, with Scheherazade as the outside frame story on the outside, with the stories woven on the inside. It's also demonstrative of the infinity of it, with no beginning and no end. The carpet is also a kind of metonym for cinema, this idea that the flat surface carries a terrific depth of imaginative field while remaining totally flat.” KindIdeasEndsStoriesFieldsStructureDepthSurfaceStorytellingCinemaCarrieFlatsInfinityImaginativeCarpetTerrificReflectingWoven Author:Marina Warner
“Your field report might be the reason someone detoured six blocks, say, on their way to the chiropractor.” WayReasonMightFieldsSixBlockReports Author:Kevin Moffett
“Any working cartoonist will tell you this, anybody who's working in a creative field: at some point, it's a job. You have deadlines. I think, for over a year, I refused to make them for publications, because I only wanted to make them when I wanted to make them. But at some point, I was like, "This is crazy, you have an opportunity to be a professional cartoonist.” ThinkingYearsWantedJobsOpportunityCreativeCrazyFieldsPublicationDeadlineCartoonist Author:David Rees
“Names don't matter, CVs don't matter, previous publications don't matter at all, because, in a certain way, the ideal is for someone to come completely out of left field. And still, of course, it is hard to say no to a writer who matters a lot to you and who you know matters to your readers.” KnowsWayStillsMatterHardCertainCoursesNamesLeftFieldsReaderIdealsPublicationWho You KnowLeft Field Author:Lorin Stein
“One of the first TV shows that I did was this prank show. And we did a prank where we took a Michael Jackson impersonator and I played his publisher.I was just really good at my job.We were just about to go onto the field to throw out the first pitch just two weeks after 9\11. It was a huge security breach, and we made a lot of cops look really dumb. Producers of the show thought it would be really funny and I didn't think about it because I was a young dumb comedian. So I got arrested and went to jail in the Bronx, and now I can never go back to Yankee Stadium.” ThinkingFirstsLooksMadeI CanTwoShowsWould BeJobsYoungWeekSecurityFieldsTvsHugeProducersDumbComedianJailCopTv ShowsPublishersYankeesArrestedTwo WeeksStadiumsBreachBronxPranksReally DumbYankee StadiumImpersonators Author:Rob Huebel
“By trying to give an artistic approach through my book I stepped unwillingly into other fields. Like a dentist being asked about a throat ache on a much more relevant scale, I was caught in trying to explain what was unexplainable for me. In the end, trying to explain why it was unexplainable finally led to a huge general insecurity in dealing with the subject at all.” GivingTryingBookEndsSubjectsFieldsHugeApproachCaughtScalesArtisticInsecurityThroatRelevantAcheDentistUnexplainable Author:Sasa Stanisic
“The first thing I remember is Alexander Calder - our school took us on a field trip to go see the Calder mobiles, and that always stuck in my memory.” FirstsSchoolRememberMemoriesFieldsStuckField Trip Author:Owen Wilson