“There's something really cool about being able to fly to South Africa and watch one of the most talented African footballers wearing a shoe on the field.” AbleWatchesFieldsSouthShoesSouth AfricaReally CoolFootballer Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.” YearsHumansNaturalAttentionFieldsTownsForestsAcademicPossums Author:Bill Mollison
“We have a great field and I'm very happy about that. It's a tough time of year as it gets closer to the Masters, but I'm appreciative of the players who are here, and I'm expecting a great week.” YearsPlayerWeekFieldsMastersToughExpectingVery HappyTough TimesAppreciative Author:Arnold Palmer
“You may want to prove that you're worthy of other kids or neighbors who were wealthier than you and teased you. You may want to prove that you're worthy of high expectations. But I do think that there is a youthful ambition that very much has to do with making your mark in the world. And I think that cuts across the experiences of a lot of people who end up achieving something significant in their field.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantMayEndsKidsCuttingAchieveFieldsProveAmbitionExpectationsMarkWorthyNeighborSignificantHigh Expectations Author:Barack Obama
“There are institutional obligations I have to carry out that are important for a president of the United States to carry out, but may not always align with what I think would move the ball down the field on the issues that I care most deeply about.” ThinkingMayImportantStatesCareMovingPresidentUnitedUnited StatesIssuesFieldsBallsObligationI Care Author:Barack Obama
“I want to be one of the greatest athletes ever to live, not only in track and field, but in all of general sport.” WantSportsFieldsAthleteTrackTrack And FieldGreatest Athlete Author:Usain Bolt
“[Julian Albert] is a CSI investigator; a forensic expert with similar skills to Barry, which gives them a different relationship to, I think, anyone else that he works with, because they're sort of treading on each other's toes in their field of expertise.” ThinkingGivingDifferentFieldsSkillsExpertsToesExpertiseInvestigatorsTreadingForensicsCsiDifferent Relationships Author:Tom Felton
“You go to towns in Massachusetts, Greenfield, first settled in 1686. Wouldn’t it be cool if it said, “Greenfield. First settled c. 13,000 B.P. or approximately 13,000 Before the Present. Resettled.” Maybe we could say even, “Resettled by whites,” Or, “Resettled anyway, 1686.” It would have a different impact. And of course it would help explain why the town is called Greenfield, because it was a green field and the fields were left by Native people who had already been farming them.” PeopleIfsFirstsSaidDifferentHelpingCoursesLeftFieldsTownsGreenImpactNativeFarmingBeing CoolMassachusettsGreen Fields Author:James W. Loewen
“More than 60 percent of small businesses face payment delays. That can cause a serious cash flow crisis. So, as president, I will explore new ways to arm small businesses with the tools to fight back and level the playing field.” WayFacesFightingCausesPresidentLevelsFieldsSeriousArmsPercentFlowToolsCrisisCashNew WaysDelaySmall BusinessPaymentPlaying FieldsCash Flow Author:Hillary Clinton
“Some things I like to do better than other things, but I've got to say that in the end, the thing that makes it the most interesting for me is who you're with, you know? It's people that make the difference in just about any field, right?” PeopleKnowsEndsDifferencesInterestingFieldsMost Interesting Author:Ry Cooder
“I'm a small town boy from a place not too different from Farmville. I grew up with a corn field in my backyard. My grandfather had emigrated to this country when he was about my son's age. My mom and dad built everything that matters in a small town in southern Indiana. They built a family and a good name and a business, and they raised a family.” DifferentCountryMatterAgeNamesBoysFieldsSonGrewMomDadGrew UpBuiltTownsRaisedMy MomMy SonSouthernGrandfatherSmall TownCornMy GrandfatherBackyardsIndianaMom And Dad Author:Mike Pence
“To be the best in your field is a great ambition, and requires discipline and a huge amount of effort. The athletes who possess this drive are the ones I am attracted to.” EffortFieldsHugeAmountDisciplineAmbitionAthleteBeing The BestGreat Ambition Author:Giorgio Armani
“America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer.” YearsFirstsMayCountryAmericaFieldsBecomingFirst TimeOur CountryDependentClothingsBecoming MoreImportsAppliances Author:Marcy Kaptur
“I guess part of my ambivalence about pursuing music as well as acting is that acting is already one of the most difficult careers to create for yourself, I must be insane to embark on creating two careers in two of the most difficult fields. But I have really different ambitions with music; I just want to stay in love with music. I want it to continue to be a means of expression for me that feels like it's mine, and something that feels community-based.” WantFeelsWellsMeanTwoDifferentDifficultCommunityActingCareersFieldsMinesExpressionAmbitionCreatingInsaneAmbivalence Author:Lola Kirke
“Fashion was very important to me because I could practice my acting skills, I could practice working with the camera, I could work with amazing photographers. It just gave me a different field of work.” ImportantDifferentActingPracticeFashionFieldsSkillsCamerasPhotographer Author:Sergei Polunin
“I decided to go to the night, myself, and started to go out to the fields, where I would encounter things that I cannot see very well, that I cannot detect very well, and to put myself in a position where I'm going to be suspected as a being entering a territory of other beings, and I'm also going to suspect them. I have to be very alert, and they are going to be very alert - this kind of position I felt was very much what is going on in the world for me.” WorldWellsKindNightFeltFieldsPositionDecidedEncountersSuspectsTerritoryEntering Author:Michal Rovner
“Some of my greatest memories were on a little league field. We didn't even have any uniforms.” LittlesMemoriesFieldsLeagueUniformsLittle League Author:Goose Gossage
“Baseball as I have said before to many... many parents it's not about wins and losses. It's about the life lessons that are learned on that baseball field. The perseverance, the hard work that it takes, dealing with failure.” SaidHardWinningParentLossFieldsHard WorkLessonsBaseballPerseveranceLife LessonWins And LossesBaseball Field Author:Goose Gossage
“Every life lesson is on that baseball field.” FieldsLessonsBaseballLife LessonBaseball Field Author:Goose Gossage
“I think baseball has moved on in many ways and the focus on the competitions on the field is really what the game is all about. It seems to be healthy. It seems more people are watching it.” PeopleThinkingWaySeemsGamesFocusFieldsHealthyBaseballMovedCompetitionMoved On Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.
“There is a feeling when you are in Yankee Stadium that it is a very sacred ground you are walking on and you know you had the same feelings that other great players have had in other eras that played right there on that field.” KnowsFeelingsPlayerFieldsWalkingSacredErasYankeesStadiumsYankee Stadium Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.
“I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field.” ThinkingAbleWonderfulFieldsPositionPosition Of PowerOptics Author:Natalie Portman
“That is again a romantic notion: the hero. I think people enjoy a much more levelled playing field where you have the ability for many people to become heroes.” PeopleThinkingEnjoyAbilityFieldsHeroNotionPlaying Fields Author:Martin Sorrell
“American Rifleman and Field & Stream had ads for "varmint guns." Another varmint was a ground hog because a horse would be going along and he'd stick his foot in a ground hog hole and break his leg. So we were trying to prevent that, too. But we finally scared ourselves. We didn't realize we were nuts.” TryingWould BeRealizingBreakFeetFieldsGunHorseSticksScaredLegsHolesStreamsNutsAdsHog Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“Businesses will have to lead the charge - demanding uniform, national, predictable rules to govern this transition, so that there is a level and rational playing field on which they can compete to make the next fortunes.” NextLevelsFieldsFortuneRationalTransitionUniformsPredictablePlaying Fields Author:Van Jones
“Here you have the Republican Party, and they had, what, 16, 15 candidates seek the Republican nomination? And Donald Trump won it. And they have been enraged actually since day one when Trump announced, and his statement did not result in a Trump implosion, and then future Trump statements and appearances did not result in a Trump implosion. But the candidates that the Republican Party...They thought they had the best presidential field ever, and they hated and resented Trump for that.” Has BeensResultsPartyFieldsTrumpRepublicanAppearanceStatementsHatedPresidentialCandidatesRepublican PartyNominations Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It's one thing for me to tell people not to worry. It's another thing entirely to quote Matthew 6, where Jesus says, "Why do you worry? The birds of the air, the flowers of the field..." He says, "I tell you, do not worry."” PeopleJesusWorryOne ThingAirFieldsFlowerBirdMatthew Author:Max Lucado
“Net neutrality is the principle that the service providers who control or access, who own the pipes, should not favor some content over another. It's, you know, an even playing field for stuff on the Internet, and, you know, I think it's very important to the medium that it have a rough quality among contents. Everyone has their shot.” ThinkingKnowsShouldImportantStuffQualityPrinciplesFieldsInternetShotsAccessFavorsMediumsRoughPipeNeutralityPlaying FieldsProvidersService ProvidersNet Neutrality Author:Tim Wu
“Right now it is illegal for a service provider to censor or block a site because they don't like it or to privilege someone who pays them extra money. So it's basically a level playing field. I think it was a great victory. It doesn't solve all the problems of our time, but I think we've gotten a much better place.” ThinkingProblemLevelsPayFieldsVictoryRight NowPrivilegeSolveBlockOur TimeExtrasIllegalSiteBetter PlacePlaying FieldsProvidersGreat VictoryService ProvidersLevel Playing Field Author:Tim Wu
“We're good at noticing sudden movements of middle size objects in our immediate visual field, but what is out of sight is for us is largely out of mind.” MindMiddleMovementFieldsObjectsSightSizeVisualsNoticing Author:Dale Jamieson
“On my football field, I know what bliss is. My team cuddles more than the missus. We won't inject drugs, just oodles of hugs. I warm up my team with some kisses.” KnowsTeamFieldsFootballDrugKissingWarmBlissHugFootball Field Author:Bill Kurtis
“Sometimes a loss that just comes out of left field rings in a very weird way when you have actually sort of relied on this small moment with this or that person, as a moment that actually has defined something for you in your life.” WayPersonsSometimesMomentsLeftLossFieldsRingsDefinedSmall MomentsLeft Field Author:Ted Leo
“When I think about the auto-industry and how it was one of the industries that brought all of these black men from the South to Michigan and other places to make more money than they could ever make in the cotton fields or the agricultural world of the South... what's happening now is all of that is closing down, and we know that it's going to reopen in Southern places, focusing on Mexican and other migrant workers to come and work cheaply and get none of the benefits.” ThinkingKnowsMenWorldBlackFieldsIndustryBenefitsHappeningsDown AndSouthWorkersSouthernMore MoneyMexicanClosingCottonMichiganMigrantsAuto IndustryClosing DownCotton FieldsMigrant Workers Author:Bell Hooks
“If our brands are going to be in print and on mobile handsets and in video and events, we have to acknowledge that the playing fields are going to be different than a print-only product or a print product with extensions to it.” IfsDifferentEventsFieldsProductsVideoBrandsAcknowledgePrintExtensionsMobilePlaying Fields Author:Norman Pearlstine
“When the Pleiadians speak of letting go, they transmit a letting go energy through our energetic field. As a human being, we've been holding on for lifetimes, really holding on to the illusion strongly, holding on to the shame, the guilt, the sadness, all the things we've lived through, all the experiences we have allowed ourselves to create for ourselves in order to learn. We've held on to the pieces of us - the anger, the frustration and the pain.” HumansPainOrderEnergySpeakHuman BeingsPiecesSadnessFieldsLetting GoIllusionShameGuiltLifetimeFrustrationHolding OnEnergeticTransmit Author:Christine McCormick Day
“All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.” PeopleSuccessfulFieldsMotivatedSuccessful PeopleInnovative Author:Robert Greene
“Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love literature and after graduating college, I kind of wandered around in Europe learning languages and writing novels and never led anywhere. And then I got into like journalism in New York as a way to kind of maybe find my way into the field and it wasn't a good fit. It just wasn't right for me.” WayWritingKindBookWantedLiteratureLanguageNovelNew YorkFieldsCollegeFitEuropeJournalismMy WayGraduatesCollege GraduatesLearning LanguageLove Literature Author:Robert Greene
“Research in education has shown that we remember field trips long into adulthood. I remember visiting the post office in second grade and looking at the sorting machine. I have vivid memories of that, when I don't even remember the name of the teacher who took me.” LongRememberNamesMemoriesTeacherFieldsOfficeResearchMachinesPostsGradesAdulthoodVividVisitingPost OfficeSortingVivid MemoriesField Trip Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“My oldest brother was stabbed thirty to forty times and strangled to death with his own belt when I was eight years old. Much of my life has been pockmarked with violence. So I had a natural interest in the topic, along with a strong home-field advantage.” YearsHas BeensHomeStrongInterestNaturalViolenceFieldsBrotherAdvantageEightThirtyFortyTopicsBelts Author:Jim Goad
“[Donald Trump ] would make history in so many ways because he is a candidate who eschewed the traditional arts of political campaigns, including field organization, traditional advertising, debate preparation and policy knowledge.” WayArtPoliticalPolicyFieldsTrumpOrganizationIncludingCampaignsDebateTraditionalAdvertisingPreparationCandidatesPolitical Campaign Author:Mara Liasson
“In fact, The Party has provided so much of the ground game and field operation and data operation to supplement what we already had, when I got here, and what we're building on, that we literally are doing it with them, in these swing states. The RNC is the party. And the RNC is also helping these candidates.” StatesFactsHelpingGamesPartyFieldsBuildingDataOperationsCandidatesSwingsSupplements Author:Kellyanne Conway
“There's some things that you wouldn't tackle in a children's book because it would be beyond, not the mental capabilities, but the experience of someone under the age of say ten or eleven to encompass. But that field is smaller than you might think. They can easily cope with death and things like that; they know about it and it's a subject that often preoccupies them.” ThinkingKnowsChildrenBookMightWould BeAgeSubjectsFieldsTenCapabilityElevenChildren's Books Author:Terry Pratchett
“A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team.” MenIndividualTeamFieldsAchievementPlatesStand AloneIndividual Achievement Author:David Mamet
“The great French Impressionist painter Renoir, right at the end of his very long life, said to a friend, "I am just now learning to paint." Renoir carried his gift with a humility which realized how much he still had to learn. Anyone who goes deeply into a field in life and realizes this, gains a sense of proportion that can only make you humble.” LongSaidStillsEndsRealizingFieldsHumilityGainsPaintHumblePainterProportionLong LifeImpressionistsRenoirGreat French Author:Roger Housden
“First and foremost is to not allow the reestablishment, if you will, of an extremist sanctuary that can export the kind of terror that ended up with terrorists taking down the World Trade Center and plowing into the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. That's the point: We started this war because the Sept. 11 attack came from this area. And we do not fight alone, but with some 40 allies who share that view.” IfsWorldFirstsKindWarFightingViewsShareFieldsAreasTradeTerrorTerroristAlliesSanctuaryExtremistPennsylvaniaPentagonWorld TradeWorld Trade CenterSept 11Plowing Author:David Petraeus
“Youth. The fact that, in the mid-'90s, guys like Lee Fields gave me and all these young people the chance to do backup. I was in my 30s, but some of those guys were still teenagers. Others were 22 and 23 - babies, all of them.” PeopleStillsFactsYoungGuyChanceFieldsYouthBabyTeenagerBackup Author:Sharon Jones
“The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.” TryingHonestFieldsEntertainmentBeing HonestMakers Author:Elia Kazan
“Howard Hughes innovation was in the aviation field. His designs and spirit of experimentation was at the forefront. As far as his work as film producer, he certainly went after a bigger and more ambitious kind of filmmaking, even if he wasn't necessarily a cinema artist.” IfsKindFilmSpiritArtistDesignFieldsBiggerInnovationProducersCinemaAviationAmbitiousFilmmakingExperimentation Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“This is true in other fields, too, that a legal aid lawyer gets a whole lot less money than a Hollywood lawyer who handles the estates of celebrities. Maybe the legal aid lawyer is doing something better, though, and maybe they're happier. It's not a completely unheard of idea, but I do think we have to remind ourselves at times to look for satisfaction in other ways.” ThinkingWayLooksIdeasWholeFieldsHollywoodSatisfactionAidsLawyerHandleEstatesSomething BetterUnheard Author:Alice Mattison
“No matter how brilliant or accomplished they are, there is something emasculating for men in being pitted against a woman. It is even more true in creative fields already considered to be "squishy" and feminine, and it's a big problem because great women have been left off the record.” MenHas BeensMatterProblemBigsLeftCreativeRecordsFieldsBrilliantAccomplishedFeminineBig ProblemsGreat Women Author:Siri Hustvedt