“Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.” PeopleThinkingWayGivingWellsArtistCompanyCreativeFieldsSucceedPicksIndependentEntrepreneurMedicalEmployeePaychecksOperatorsMedical Insurance Author:Steven Pressfield
“Admittedly, I do have several bones... whole war fields full of bones, in fact... to pick with organised religion of whatever stripe. This should be seen as a critique of purely temporal agencies who have, to my mind, erected more obstacles between whatever notion of spirituality and Godhead one subscribes to than they have opened doors. To me, the difference between Godhead and the Church is the difference between Elvis and Colonel Parker... although that conjures images of God dying on the toilet, which is not what I meant at all.” ShouldMindWarWholeFactsSpiritualityDifferencesChurchDoorsDyingFieldsPicksNotionObstaclesBonesAgencyToiletsCritiqueGod ImageStripesOrganisedColonelsOpened DoorsOrganised Religion Author:Alan Moore
“Every day before supper and before we went to services on Sundays. My grandmother would read the Bible to me, and my grandfather would pray. We even had devotions before going to pick cotton in the fields. Prayer and the Bible, became a part of my everyday thoughts and beliefs. I learned to put my trust in God and to seek Him as my strength.” BeliefPrayerFieldsPrayingPicksEverydayDevotionGrandmotherSundayTrust In GodGrandfatherMy GrandmotherMy GrandfatherCottonSupper Author:Rosa Parks
“You come to work knowing you're going to do good work without any doubt. You can go where you need to go and nothing is wrong and you pick the rightnesses out. If something doesn't work, you let them go, but you don't hold onto those wrongnesses. You just hold onto the rightnesses, so it's a playing field that anyone would want and feel much more comfortable with.” IfsWantNeedsFeelsKnowingDoubtFieldsComfortablePicksGood WorkPlaying Fields Author:John Travolta
“I ran through the manuscript in the space of a day, much as one might pick compulsively at a box of chocolates. It was simply too provocative to put down. Has the potential of being highly influential inside the field and among an informed public.” MightSpaceFieldsPicksBoxesRanChocolateInfluentialManuscriptsProvocativeBox Of Chocolates Author:Baruch Halpern
“The sense of it may come with watching a flock of cedar waxwings eating wild grapes in the top of the woods on a November afternoon. Everything they do is leisurely. They pick the grapes with a curious deliberation, comb their feathers, converse in high windy whistles. Now and then one will fly out and back in a sort of dancing flight full of whimsical flutters and turns. They are like farmers loafing in their own fields on Sunday. Though they have no Sundays, their days are full of sabbaths.” MayTurnsFieldsEatingPicksDancingWoodsFlightCuriousSundayFarmersAfternoonNow And ThenFeathersGrapesNovemberFlocksSabbathConversesDeliberationCombsWindyWhimsicalCedarsLoafing Author:Wendell Berry
“My job is to evaluate the field, pick the guy that I think is most open and make a good throw.” ThinkingJobsGuyFieldsPicksEvaluate Author:Tom Brady
“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.” PeopleGivingTryingChildrenCareJobsThreeInterestHoursWeekFieldsPicksSatisfying Author:Warren Buffett
“When war ends, women are the first to pick up the pieces. Where there is no market place, they go door to door. When homes are destroyed, mothers and daughters haul stones to rebuild or plow fields together.” FirstsWarEndsHomeTogetherMotherPiecesDoorsFieldsPicksDaughterStonesDestroyedMother And DaughterHaul Author:Zainab Salbi
“I don't like it when people ask me what my favourite Beatles song is. I always get that. First of all, I don't like having to pick a favourite thing anyway. You can't pick a favourite Beatles song! What about "Strawberry Fields"? What about "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"? What about "Tomorrow Never Knows"? Come on. That question is small minded to think you could even have a favourite Beatles song.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFirstsSongAsksSkyFieldsTomorrowPicksAsk MeDiamondFavouriteLucyStrawberriesSmall MindsFavourite Things Author:Kemp Muhl
“I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. The first book in the field that I ever read was Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall. I suppose subsequently I would have to pick out Keynes, Adam Smith, Marx.” FirstsBookPrinciplesFieldsReaderPicksEconomicsFaithfulAdamDocumentsKeynes Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“Without perceiving things through the old filter of past conditioning and conceptualization, one can sense the universe is intensely alive. Even so-called inanimate objects - I often pick up little objects and just look at them and sense that they are alive. Physicists actually confirm that what we perceive as dead matter is not dead at all. Everything is an intensely alive energy field. That aliveness is only an aspect of the aliveness or life that I am.” LooksLittlesMatterPastUniverseEnergyAliveFieldsObjectsPicksAspectPerceivePhysicistConditioningFiltersInanimate ObjectsEnergy FieldsConceptualization Author:Eckhart Tolle