“If you are afraid of someone, you immediately give them an advantage and give them entry to your awareness field.” IfsGivingAwarenessFieldsAdvantageEntry Author:Frederick Lenz
“Whatever field you can do that, that's where you want to do it, and I think that's why people like David Fincher and Ridley Scott are interested in it, too, because when you sit down on a meeting in HBO and they're like, "More, more." You're just like, "Oh yeah, I love this." Sometimes it's a little harder in film. I think also it's a great audience, take advantage of it. It's a great audience.” PeopleThinkingWantLittlesSometimesFilmCan DoAudienceFieldsAdvantageHarderYeahMeetingsHbo Author:Charlize Theron
“Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so on through a series of triumphs, but in gathering, on the very field of defeat itself, the materials for renewed efforts, and in proceeding, with no abatement of heart or energy, to form fresh designs upon the very ruins and ashes of blasted hopes. Yes, it is this indomitable persistence in a purpose, continued alike through defeat and success, that makes, more than aught else, the hero.” HeartFormPurposeEnergyEffortDesignFieldsMaterialsHeroElementsAdvantageSeriesDefeatRuinsTriumphPersistenceHeroicAshesGatheringProceedingIndomitable Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“Technology and computers are very much at the core of our economy going forward. To be prepared for the demands of the 21st century-and to take advantage of its opportunities-it is essential that more of our students today learn basic computer programming skills, no matter what field of work they want to pursue.” WantMatterTodayOpportunityTechnologyEconomyCenturyFieldsStudentsSkillsDemandEssentialsComputerAdvantageNo Matter WhatPreparedCorePursueProgrammingBe Prepared21st CenturyComputer ProgrammingStudents Today Author:Todd Park
“It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.” IfsMindGrowsFieldsAdvantageOvercomingFaultsDestroyedFollyWeedConsumedSprung Book:Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published Source: Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published
“The writer's advantage, in some respects, over those whose expression lies in other fields, is in the privilege of a double - sometimes a triple - living. Pleasure multiplied in the mirrors of words, and pain siphoned off in words.” SometimesPainLyingPleasureFieldsExpressionAdvantageMirrorsPrivilege Author:Josephine Winslow Johnson
“There's strong men of wisdom in many different fields. They say 5% of the people are wise and righteous and 10% are wise but use their wiseness for wickedness or to deceive others. It's like a magician: he knows the answer to the trick, but you don't. He has to keep you blind to the truth in order for the illusion to work. When you've got that kind of wisdom and somebody else doesn't, you can always take advantage of them.” PeopleKnowsMenKindDifferentUseOrderStrongAnswersWiseFieldsIllusionAdvantageBlindTricksRighteousDeceivingWickednessMagicianStrong Man Author:RZA
“I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.” IfsGivingHas BeensBookJoyReadingMemoriesFieldsGiving UpAdvantageGoldPursuitIf I CouldOccupationReading BooksExplorersMisers Author:Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
“... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance--no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and exclude it from the vast field of useful and scientific knowledge. O, had I received the advantages of early education, my ideas would, ere now, have expanded far and wide; but, alas! I possess nothing but moral capability--no teachings but the teachings of the Holy Spirit.” IdeasSoulSpiritEducationMoralTeachingFieldsIgnoranceHolyAdvantageWideChainsHoly SpiritCapabilityAlasBindingFettersScientific KnowledgeEarly Education Author:Maria W. Stewart
“I think women who are pretty certainly have an advantage in any field, in any profession. When a girl is born people still say: Oh, I'm glad that she is pretty. They don't look at whether she is intelligent.” PeopleThinkingLooksStillsGirlBornFieldsAdvantageIntelligentProfessionGlad Author:Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
“I'd love to take a stab at writing videogames. There are a lot of storytelling opportunities that really aren't being taken advantage of in that field. I'd like to experiment with telling a truly non-linear story.” WritingStoriesOpportunityTakenFieldsAdvantageExperimentsStorytellingLinearVideogameTaken Advantage Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“The best advice I could give someone trying to get into the comedy field is to take advantage of every opportunity you have to work to hone your skills.” GivingTryingOpportunityComedyAdviceFieldsSkillsAdvantageBest Advice Author:Bob Newhart
“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