“The government is supposed to provide a level playing field where people can compete fairly. It's not supposed to cut deals with one company or another to do so.” PeopleGovernmentLevelsDealsCompanyCuttingFieldsPlaying FieldsLevel Playing Field Author:David Brooks
“All the rich people collect traditional Chinese art. So it's very natural for Chinese families to still see art as the highest human performance and send their children to this field.” PeopleHumansChildrenArtStillsNaturalRichFieldsHighestPerformancesTraditionalChineseRich PeopleChinese Art Author:Ai Weiwei
“A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.” HumansPastDesireNationsFieldsIllusionLaborProductionsChinaExportingCheap Labor Author:Ai Weiwei
“You cover 50 yards on the playing field of faith with a story that downplays your success. You cover 3 yards, or you may even end up backward, with anything that up-plays or promotes you.” MayEndsPlayStoriesFieldsYardsPlaying Fields Author:Max Lucado
“Anne Romaine [ is ]folk singer and a skillful historian, even though she was not formally trained in the field [of Malcolm X].” FieldsFolksSingersHistorianSkillful Author:Manning Marable
“All you have to do is go back to slavery - days, and there were two types of slaves, the house slave and the field slave. The house slave was the one who believed in the master, who had confidence in the master and usually was very friendly with the master. And usually he was also used by the master to try and keep the other slaves pacified.” TryingTwoUsedHouseFieldsMastersTypeSlaverySlaveFriendly Author:Malcolm X
“The other slaves in the field never let that house slave knew - know what they were really thinking. If the house slave said, well one of these days all of us will live in the plantation, they said, uh huh. They went along with him. But if you came up to them and said, let's go, they would be gone just like that.And in, in America you have the same situation.You have the vast masses who are still slaves.” IfsThinkingKnowsWellsSaidStillsWould BeAmericaHouseSituationGoneFieldsMassSlaveThese DaysThey SaidPlantations Author:Malcolm X
“Why must I run against a Negro? We have had enough of Negroes running against and fighting with each other. The better bet is that we would put a Muslim candidate in the field against a devil, somebody who is against all we stand for.” EnoughRunningFightingFieldsDevilCandidatesHad Enough Author:Malcolm X
“I think that there is always room for improvement so I am seeking to reach as far as I can in my field of art, film and animation.” ThinkingArtI CanFilmRoomsFieldsSeekingImprovementAnimationAlways Room For ImprovementRoom For ImprovementArt Films Author:St. Lucia
“Just because of [Albert Camus] way of sensing before thinking. He's in a field that he often feels like escaping from. In any case, you have to learn what blood is. It all has to be rationalised. In that he feels exiled, solitary.” ThinkingWayFeelsCasesBloodFieldsSolitaryEscapingSensing Author:Catherine Camus
“There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it sociobiology or evolutionary psychology - relating to where we get our moral sense and why we value the idea of altruism, and locating both answers in behavioral adaptations for the preservation of our genes.” YearsIdeasWholeLastsValuesAnswersMoralPsychologyFieldsCome UpGenesAltruismPreservationInquiryAdaptationEvolutionary Psychology Author:Richard Dawkins
“There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion about Harvard, and indeed the school's president, James Conant, did block Jewish faculty. He was the one who prevented European Jews from being admitted to the chemistry department - his field - and also had pretty good relations with the Nazis.” LongBookSchoolPresidentInterestingWrittenFieldsThirdsRelationJewBlockDiscussionDepartmentFacultyChemistryTowersNaziHarvardIvoryIvory TowerInteresting Book Author:Noam Chomsky
“I would also like to mention pianists like Michel Petrucciani or Chick Сorea for whom I have great admiration in the jazz field.” FieldsJazzAdmirationChicksPianist Author:Richard Clayderman
“If we didn't have Nico [Rosberg] and Lewis [Hamilton] in those cars - there's one or two guys down the field who in those cars would have delivered the same.” IfsTwoGuyCarFieldsHamiltonTwo Guys Author:Bernie Ecclestone
“It's pretty clear that Hillary Clinton was a deeply, deeply flawed alternative. She had the wrong combination of the internal political chops to muscle out all the mainstream nominations from the field, leaving only Bernie Sanders, who was unacceptable to the Democrats' party establishment. But she also had a real lack of political skill that would enable her to win the general election.” RealPoliticalWinningPartyClearFieldsSkillsElectionClintonDemocratLeavingAlternativesCombinationMusclesInternalsEstablishmentMainstreamFlawedNominationsGeneral Elections Author:Jonathan Chait
“Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.” ShowsFieldsStandardsShow Business Author:Bill Murray
“It's rewarding riding into the sunset. What better way to go? My teammates carried me off the field - it doesn't get any better than that. Now it's time to be a dad. To be as successful at that as I was at baseball would be nice.” WayWould BeSuccessfulNiceFieldsDadBaseballSunsetRidingBeing NiceTeammateBetter WaysBeing A Dad Author:David Ross
“"Shoe" just meant you were a big jock on campus no matter what field you were in.” MatterBigsFieldsNo Matter WhatShoesCampusJocks Author:Kevin Sessums
“I wrote and directed and acted in it and produced it, every job I have since that - and Star Wars included - I look at it completely different now. Now that I've seen how it gets made, I can appreciate the jobs that people are doing, and it's also become a different learning experience for me to work on things because I'm watching pros at the top of their field do their jobs and just picking up on their tricks and all of their expertise and stashing them away in my brain.” PeopleLooksMadeI CanDifferentWarJobsStarsBrainFieldsAppreciateTricksExpertiseLearning Experience Author:Alan Tudyk
“Most of my professional work has been in these areas - as a historical critic, as a literary critic. I've done very little in the history of interpretation [as Elie Wiesel has]. I've been interested in it, but I have not contributed to that field, really.” LittlesHas BeensDoneFieldsAreasHistoricalCriticsInterpretationProfessional Work Author:Hershel Shanks
“I had more trouble than I had a sense of utility or satisfaction. But it served to occupy me and to keep me occupied in a field that I love - which was cinema - while I was waiting to realize the film that I wanted to do, which was Once Upon a Time in America, which took ten years of thinking and working to realize.” ThinkingYearsWantedAmericaFilmWaitingRealizingTroubleFieldsTenSatisfactionCinemaUtilityOnce Upon A Time Author:Sergio Leone
“Every week, Dennis Day sang an old Irish folk song. And next day in the fields, I'd be singing that song if I was working in the fields.” IfsSongNextWeekFieldsSingingFolksNext DayFolk Songs Author:Johnny Cash
“When the snakes out in that field begin to realize that if one of their members get out of line, it's going to be detrimental to all of them, they'll keep that, perhaps they'll then take the necessary steps to keep their fellow snakes away from my chickens or away from my children if the responsibility is placed upon them.” IfsChildrenRealizingLinesResponsibilityStepsFieldsMembersFellowsMy ChildrenChickensSnakesDetrimental Author:Malcolm X
“I had not been very kind to J. Edgar Hoover. And the field agent had written on - it was sent directly to Hoover - that - the director should see this - `And, besides, Hentoff is a lousy writer.' And I thought that went a bit far.” ShouldKindBitsWrittenFieldsDirectorsAgentsHooverJ Edgar Hoover Author:Nat Hentoff
“There were no "unemployed" in the impoverished Polish countryside before the Second World War. Not a single unemployed. Every child that was born in the peasant family had his room at the table and his job in the field, stable or pigsty... If there was not enough food, everybody got less. If food was plentiful, everybody ate better. In such a setting, we may say, the problem of security couldn't even arise... One was born with life-long rights; the only thing that one could not do was to change them. A setting good on the side of security, though bad on the side of freedom.” IfsWorldMayChildrenLongWarEnoughProblemJobsSidesBornRoomsRightsSecurityFieldsTablesAriseSettingSettingsWar Of The WorldsStableLong LifePolishPeasantsUnemployedCountrysideSecond World WarPlentiful Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“I think everybody knows that you know it's a stretch, but the good part of that though is since it's such a popular show [CSI: Miami] - all these CSIs - I have had a lot of people come up to me and say that they were going to go into that field.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShowsFieldsCome UpMiamiCsiCsi Miami Author:Boti Bliss
“It's a lot of things that play into having a good sneaker store. That's why I never jumped into that field. If I open one, it's going to be a lot of expectations.” IfsPlayFieldsExpectationsStoresSneakers Author:Jadakiss
“I can respect the gulf that separates alpinism from a running race and still appreciate that the physiology that accounts for endurance is the same if you are running a foot race in the city park or front pointing up the second ice field on the north face of the Eiger.” IfsStillsI CanRunningFacesRaceCitiesFeetFrontsFieldsAppreciateAccountsIceParksEndurancePointingPhysiologyRunning RaceCity ParksAlpinism Author:Steve House
“In the sciences particularly the large public universities must and do take an active role in fostering creativity and independence; otherwise the fields will wither, and along with them even the aspirations of wealth and power.” WealthRolesCreativityFieldsIndependenceUniversityActiveAspirationFostering Author:Noam Chomsky
“If we want growth today to be more innovation-driven, more inclusive and more sustainable, then we need a more active state, not a less active one. Yet we still hear the dogma that we should just fix market failure by focusing on science and infrastructure, and to "level the playing field."” IfsWantNeedsShouldStillsStatesTodayGrowthLevelsFieldsInnovationActiveDrivenDogmaInfrastructurePlaying FieldsMarket Failure Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“Fixing markets isn't enough. We have to actively shape and create them and tilt the playing field in the direction of the growth we want.” WantEnoughGrowthFieldsShapesFixingPlaying FieldsTilt Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“It's critical to level the playing field, to make prices and risks clear up front, so when someone signs on for a student loan or a mortgage or a credit card, they know the tricks and traps hidden in the fine print. That's why the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been working on a new financial aid shopping sheet. A shorter, two-page credit card agreement, a simpler mortgage disclosure form. All those are aimed toward helping people understand the basic bargain.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensTwoHelpingFormLevelsClearRiskFrontsFieldsStudentsFinePagesFinancialCreditCriticalProtectionAidsTricksCardsConsumersAgreementPrintShoppingTrapsSheetsLoanHelping PeopleBargainsMortgageCredit CardPlaying FieldsDisclosureStudent LoanFine PrintFinancial Aid Author:Elizabeth Warren
“In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting a handle on poetry of plainer speech than I had dwelt with heretofore. Which led me into a new appreciation of middle [William Butler ] Yeats, of the short three-beat line and forward-driving syntax, and that paid in, in turn, to a poem like Casualty in Field Work. The traffic, however, was usually the other way. My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.” WayTurnsThreeReadingFoundLinesTeachingMiddleExampleFieldsPoetSpeechBeatsPaidAppreciationExcitedDrivingHandleTrafficAnimatedRelishCasualtiesAndrewButlersSyntaxYeats Author:Adam Kirsch
“I can't imagine that I would be asked that by the president-elect [Donald Trump], or then-president [Barack Obama]. But it's - I'm very clear. I voted for the change that put the Army Field Manual in place as a member of Congress. I understand that law very, very quickly and am also deeply aware that any changes to that will come through Congress and the president.” I CanWould BeLawPresidentClearImagineFieldsTrumpMembersArmyCongressBarackImagine ThatManualsPresident Barack ObamaCongress And The President Author:James Mattis
“With respect to the outlines of what's in the Army Field Manual, there's no doubt in my mind about the limitations it places not only on the DOD, but on the Central Intelligence Agency. And I'll always comply with the law.” MindLawDoubtFieldsArmyLimitationAgencyNo DoubtOutlinesManualsIntelligence Agencies Author:James Mattis
“Prior to me, no one in my family is in the field of IT, but I can feel that my brothers are following my footsteps very anxiously and enthusiastically. They are posing a constant challenge to my world record.” WorldFeelsI CanChallengesRecordsFieldsBrotherMy FamilyConstantFollowingMy BrotherFootstepsPosingWorld Records Author:Arfa Karim
“[My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there was a broad range of possibilities and fairly unlimited utility for a black figure that didn't have to comprise its blackness in order to preserve a place in the field of representation.” WaySelfArtistOrderBlackFiguresFieldsPossibilityShadowFormerPreservesRangeBroadsRepresentationPortraitsUnlimitedUtilityBlacknessDemonstrating Author:Kerry James Marshall
“Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level there's artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there's the other side, where the image is a construction that is meant to engage in a discursive field in order to preform a particular function.” TwoDifferentOrderSidesLevelsFieldsParticularFunctionConstructionArtworkDifferent Levels Author:Kerry James Marshall
“Going out in the field, it's always enlightening to see what's working and what's not and to sit down and talk - I was with young girls in south Africa - understanding why our tools for prevention aren't being adopted, and what way may need to invent to help protect them.” WayNeedsMayHelpingYoungGirlUnderstandingFieldsProtectToolsDown AndSouthSouth AfricaGoing OutAdoptedEnlighteningPreventionUnderstanding WhyBeing Adopted Author:Bill Gates
“I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the patches of trees, along the railroad tracks, and on red dirt roads. This had a profound effect on my view of the world - vast, open-ended, full of opportunity, and ready for exploration.” WorldRunningOpportunityViewsTreeEffectsFieldsReadyRedTownsProfoundTrackTinyMilesExplorationDirtPatchesWheatRailroadsOklahomaRailroad TracksDirt Roads Author:Chelsea Manning
“Society always needs a level playing field. In order to do that, you have to have opportunity, and providing that opportunity begins with 'how do we bridge that gap,' that so-called Digital Divide? How can we get internet into every home possible?” NeedsHomeOrderOpportunityLevelsFieldsInternetBridgesDigitalGapsDividesProvidingPlaying FieldsLevel Playing FieldDigital Divide Author:Jackie Joyner-Kersee
“People are at the mercy of internet trolls who bring people who are excellent in their fields down to their level. They're diminishing someone's flame to make theirs brighter.” PeopleLevelsFieldsInternetMercyExcellentFlamesBrighterTrollInternet Trolls Author:David Haye
“I think people face that in any artistic field, this idea of: oh, I could do that, if I had the time.” PeopleIfsThinkingIdeasFacesFieldsArtistic Author:Danielle Steel
“A number of African countries came to us and said, we request that South Africa should not field a candidate, because so many other African countries wanted to, and, in any case, South Africa would continue to play a role in terms of building the African Union, and so on. And they actually said, please don't field a candidate, and we didn't. As I have said, it is not because we didn't have people who are competent to serve in these positions.” PeopleShouldSaidCountryPlayWantedTermNumbersRolesCasesFieldsPositionBuildingPleaseUnionsSouthCandidatesSouth AfricaRequestCompetentAfrican Union Author:Thabo Mbeki
“For all the sophistication of GPS, there still remain numerous problems with their use. The most obvious problem in this context is the problem of landmines. For example, when the French troops went into Kosovo they were told that they were going to enter in half-tracks, over the open fields. But their leaders had forgotten about the landmines. And this was a major problem because, these days, landmines are no longer localized.” StillsUseProblemHalfLeaderExampleFieldsMajorsForgottenTrackObviousThese DaysTroopsSophisticationMajor ProblemsKosovoGpsLandminesOpen Fields Author:Paul Virilio
“On the field, you come into sync with your teammates and coaches and together you achieve something that you could never do on your own.” TogetherAchieveFieldsCoachesTeammateSync Author:Tom Brady
“As an athlete, when you are on that field and the fans get really engaged and you can feel their energy and passion and true love of the game, it is absolutely a spiritual experience.” FeelsSpiritualPassionGamesEnergyFansFieldsAthleteEngagedGet RealSpiritual ExperienceThe Love Of The Game Author:Tom Brady
“Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in terms of understanding hard science for people who are studying climate change, or people who are interested in health policy or food security, or people who care about education.” PeopleHardCarePoliticalUnderstandingTermStudySecurityPolicyFieldsHugeAspectClimateClimate ChangeForeign PolicyWho CaresPolitical ScienceFood Security Author:Madeleine Albright
“If I'm a pitcher, my only point would be that if I'm a relief pitcher, I think I like the idea of warming up on the field.” IfsThinkingIdeasWould BeFieldsReliefPitcherWarming Up Author:Joe Maddon
“Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats - the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms - while the field hands are left with the scraps.” HandsRunningLeftEconomyFieldsFirmFundCeoEquityScrapPlantationsHedge FundPrivate Equity Author:Bill Moyers