“The Male Factor is the singularly best business book for women I've read in years. This well-researched yet thoroughly readable book is rich with rare insights into how men really see women in the workplace-and how with a few simple adjustments you can even the playing field.” MenYearsWellsBookSimpleRichFieldsMalesInsightFactorsWorkplaceAdjustmentPlaying FieldsBest Business Author:Lois P Frankel
“We owe an enormous debt of gratitude to those who serve or have served in our countrys military, as well as to the families of those individuals. Whether protecting our freedoms in foreign fields or making contributions here at home, the value these men and women bring to the American workforce and our way of life is beyond measure.” MenWayWellsHomeLife IsValuesIndividualMilitaryFieldsGratitudeMen And WomenDebtEnormousContributionWorkforceDebt Of Gratitude Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell
“The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains as well as our fields so that when some of them fail, we can still eat.” NeedsWellsStillsWholeProblemFailingFieldsChainsEggsAgricultureBasketsFood ChainEggs In One Basket Author:Michael Pollan
“Well, a funny thing, there are three that I like all for the same reason, golf, fishing, and shooting, and I do because first, they take you into the fields. There is mild exercise, the kind that an older individual probably should have. And on top of it, it induces you to take at any one time 2 or 3 hours, if you can, where you are thinking of the bird or that ball or the wily trout. Now, to my mind it is a very healthful, beneficial kind of thing, and I do it whenever I get a chance, as you well know.” IfsThinkingKnowsShouldMindFirstsWellsKindReasonThreeIndividualSportsHoursChanceFieldsExerciseBirdShould HaveBallsGolfShootingFishingWhere You AreOne TimeBeneficialFunny ThingsTrout Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“I think of going back to the sports field again, and let's take a baseball game. Well, you have cracked out a grounder and you put in your last ounce of energy and you just happen to make first base. But you don't stop there. First base is the beginning. Now you call on all your alertness, your skill, your energy - and you count on your teammates, you count on the people that are working with you. And the purpose of that getting on first base was to get you around to count a run.” PeopleThinkingFirstsWellsHappensRunningLastsPurposeGamesEnergySportsFieldsSkillsBaseballTeammateCrackedBaseball GamesAlertness Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The attitude in terms of how players work both on and off the field has a massive impact on us as coaches but also the performance and how the team does as well.” WellsDoeTermAttitudePlayerTeamFieldsPerformancesImpactCoachesMassiveAnd Off Author:Warren Gatland
“In Iraq, [American administration] said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction endangering mankind. With this pretext, the U.S. intervened militarily, and all they did is take control over oil fields, and oil wells.” WellsSaidMankindFieldsWeaponsMassDestructionIraqOilAdministrationSaddamHusseinWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionPretextTake ControlOil Field Author:Evo Morales
“In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social philosophy and science. In his own field - though, of course, on a proportionately lesser scale - Wells may be likened to Dostoyevsky, who took the form of the cheap detective novel and infused it with brilliant psychological analysis.” InspirationalWellsMayArtPhilosophyFormValuesCoursesLiteratureSocialNovelFieldsAdventureElementsIntellectualRaisedBrilliantScalesPsychologicalAnalysisDetectivesAdoptingDostoyevsky Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“No one gets out of the game of life alive. You either die in the bleachers, or on the field. So, you might as well play out on the field, and go for it.” WellsPlayMightActionDiesGamesAliveFieldsBleachers Author:Les Brown
“As a kid, I wasn't given the sense that celebrity, or fame, or any of that, was something to be impressed by, or to seek out. It was always impressed upon me that making something well crafted, something respected, was the most important thing to do with your life, and I've tried to do that where I can in my field.” WellsI CanImportantKidsGivenFieldsFameImportant ThingsThings To DoImpressed Author:Adria Petty
“I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!” KnowsNeedsYearsWellsTwoWantedJobsReadingStuffFieldsHugeIndustryTradeSellsPressesLeavingBritishListsSettingSettingsReleaseAgentsAgencyEditorsClientsJournalNew AgePress Release Author:Charles Stross
“I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out. The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.” PeopleWorldWantWellsDoneHandsMovingCommonFireFieldsShapesTasksCleanRhythmDustBagsEvidentHarvestMudWell DoneParlor Book:Circles on the Water Source: Circles on the Water
“I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects, their free and gentle humor, their agility and breadth of thought, the ease with which they shifted from one engineering field to another, and, for that matter, from technology to social concerns and art. Then, too, they personified good manners and delicacy of taste; well-bred speech that flowed evenly and was free of uncultured words; one of them might play a musical instrument, another dabble in painting; and their faces always bore a spiritual imprint.” WellsArtMatterPlayMightRememberFacesSpiritualSocialTechnologyFieldsPaintingTasteSpeechConcernTwentiesInstrumentsShiningMusicalIntellectMannersEaseGentleGood ManEngineeringEngineersBoresDelicacyGood MannersBreadthAgilityMusical Instruments Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Anytime you give up one run in Coors Field you expect to win a ball game. It just shows how well Myers pitched.” GivingWellsShowsRunningGamesWinningFieldsGiving UpBallsBall Games Author:Garrett Atkins
“It's quite astonishing how much money people make in the hedge fund business and in the private equity field, and how well-off affluent families really are.” PeopleWellsFieldsFundEquityAstonishingAffluentHedge FundPrivate Equity Author:Kenneth Rogoff
“For me, the biggest champions out there are not just on the field, but also off the field. Some of the biggest champions around the world, the David Beckhams, the Lebron Jameses, they all hold themselves so well off the field, and do so many great things for the community and socially. So I think it's not just about how you perform on the field, but how you hold yourself off it.” ThinkingWorldWellsCommunityFieldsGreat ThingsAround The WorldChampionBeckham Author:Nick Youngquest
“Every team in the NFL is hard, but when we play our own division it's a fight. Our goal is to make it to the playoffs and to do that we have to win games within the division. We match up well against this division, it's just a matter of getting on the field and doing what we know we can do.” KnowsWellsMatterHardPlayFightingGamesWinningGoalCan DoTeamFieldsNflDivisionPlayoffs Author:Giovani Bernard
“When I have children that go home and mom and dad are not home because they're working, they're trying to get food on the table, and they come home to an empty house and they go to sleep in an empty house, there is no way that child can compete against a child from the west side of Los Angeles who both parents went to Stanford. Well, good for them, God love them. That's not an equal playing field.” WayTryingWellsChildrenHomeHouseParentSidesSleepFieldsMomDadEqualEmptyTablesWestGod LoveLos AngelesComing HomeGoing To SleepMom And DadPlaying FieldsStanfordWest SideEmpty Houses Author:Rafe Esquith
“In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself, and how much there is to learn. How little we know about this brain which made social evolution possible, and of the mind. How little we know of the nature and spirit of man and God. We stand now before this inner frontier of ignorance. If we could pass it, we might well discover the meaning of life and understand man's destiny.” IfsKnowsMenMindWellsLittlesMadeMightSpiritSocialNaturalBrainDestinyFieldsIgnoranceEvolutionTriumphMeaning Of LifeSpiteFrontiersAstonishingNatural ScienceLittle Man Author:Wilder Penfield
“Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession - in fact that has always been so, but at the moment it is very bad.” WellsEnoughMomentsFactsFieldsProfessionPeasantsPloughing Book:Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889 Source: Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889
“I sleep equally well in a soft bed or on the grass beside the road. If I am given food and shelter, fine. If not, I'm just as happy. Many times I am given shelter by total strangers. When hospitality is not available there are always bus depots, railroad stations and all night truck stops.... When no shelter is available to me, I sleep in the fields or by the side of the road with God to guard me.” IfsWellsNightGivenSidesSleepFieldsFineBedAvailableStrangerGrassStationsBusShelterTruckHospitalityAll NightRailroads Author:Peace Pilgrim
“My only real job is to play well and do my job on the field. If I do that, all the other stuff will take care of itself.” IfsWellsRealPlayCareJobsStuffFieldsTake CareReal Jobs Author:Freddy Adu
“Walking companions, like heroes, are difficult to pluck out of the crowd of acquaintances. Good dispositions, ready wit, friendly conversation serve well enough by the fireside but they prove insufficient in the field. For there you need transcendentalists-nothing less; you need poets, sages, humorists and natural philosophers.” NeedsWellsEnoughDifficultNaturalFieldsReadyPoetHeroWalkingConversationProvePhilosopherCrowdsWitFriendlyCompanionDispositionSageAcquaintanceHumoristsPluckInsufficient Author:Brooks Atkinson
“A new study says by 2030 household robots will dominate every phase of our lives. The study says the No. 1 field for robot growth is medicine. That makes sense. Robots already perform well in surgery. That is, until there is a power outage. Then it's just a coat rack leaning over you as you bleed to death.” WellsGrowthStudyOur LivesFieldsMedicineMake SenseOver YouHouseholdPhasesSurgeryCoatsRobotsRacks Author:Craig Ferguson
“Renewable energy fits well into the conservative mindset by allowing competition into the energy markets so that consumers have choice. The system as it is, with big utilities monopolizing the energy playing field or fossil fuel energy being given massive subsidies so that they are on a kind of corporate welfare, is the antithesis of conservative principles.” WellsKindBigsChoicesEnergyGivenPrinciplesFieldsFitCompetitionConservativeMindsetConsumersCorporateWelfareFuelMassiveAllowingFossilsUtilityFossil FuelRenewable EnergyPlaying FieldsSubsidiesAntithesisMonopolizing Author:Mark Ruffalo
“Every time we have a thought that's not a thought of kindness towards others - then we've left the field of intention and, therefore, lost the power of the field of intention, as well. The whole idea is to connect yourself back to this field from which all things emanate, to return to your source and watch it in every thought that you have.” WellsIdeasWholeLostLeftWatchesKindnessFieldsSourceReturnAll ThingsIntentionEmanate Author:Wayne Dyer
“Friedrich Hayek .. seems to have been the first to postulate what is the core of this paper, namely, the idea of memory and perception represented in widely distributed networks of interconnected cortical cells. Subsequently this idea has received theoretical support, however tangential, from the fields of cognitive psychology, connectionism and artificial intelligence. Empirically, it is well supported by the physiological study and neuroimaging of working memory.” FirstsWellsHas BeensIdeasSeemsMemoriesSupportStudyPsychologyFieldsPaperPerceptionCoreCellsArtificial IntelligenceArtificialTheoreticalCognitiveInterconnectedPhysiologicalHayekFriedrich Hayek Author:Joaquin Fuster
“The sporting fields where Australia's greats began their careers are built and rebuilt with Commonwealth help, as are the halls and community centres where our most of our well-known stars first felt the magic of the stage.” FirstsWellsHelpingStarsFeltCommunityKnownCareersMagicStageFieldsBuiltAustraliaHallsCentreWell KnownCommonwealth Author:Anthony Albanese
“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
“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
“We're proud to offer a wide variety of bloggers from a wide variety of fields. Some are well-known, some are unknown - but all have something interesting to say. And we cover everything from politics, to entertainment, to media, to business, to style, to green, to our upcoming launch of a technology page - it's why we call HuffPost "The Internet Newspaper."” WellsInterestingKnownTechnologyMediaStyleFieldsProudInternetOffersPagesGreenEntertainmentWideNewspapersVarietyWell KnownBloggersSomething Interesting Author:Arianna Huffington
“The digital revolution is forever. They put importance on that option as well. With Amazon, you're getting the best of both worlds, with a whole new playing field.” WorldWellsWholeForeverFieldsRevolutionImportanceDigitalAmazonPlaying FieldsBest Of Both WorldsDigital Revolution Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“Psychiatrists are usually very well imbued with the clinical role, where helping the sick person is the goal. And that's quite incompatible with the truthseeking role. That's probably true of the other fields, too, but maybe more so of the personalities that gravitate toward psychiatry. They tend to care about people and wish to be helpful.” PeopleWellsPersonsHelpingCareWishGoalRolesFieldsPersonalitySickHelpfulPsychiatryPsychiatristClinicalsSick Person Author:Park Dietz
“In fact, numerous scientific laboratory tests and field observations have led to the conclusion that animals are conscious, intelligent, emotional beings. They are not machines and truly feel physical pain when it is inflicted upon them. They are capable of experiencing a wide range of emotions, including loneliness, embarrassment, sadness, longing, depression, anxiety, panic, and fear, as well as joy, relief, surprise, happiness, contentment, and peace.” FeelsWellsFactsPainJoyAnimalEmotionSadnessLonelinessFieldsEmotionalAnxietyCapableConsciousTestsMachinesIntelligentLongingSurpriseIncludingWideConclusionObservationRangeReliefContentmentPanicEmbarrassmentLaboratoryPhysical PainContentment And PeaceRange Of Emotions Author:Sharon Gannon
“The mind and heart is the field upon which war is waged within us. If we can stop that internal fear-based battle, then those outside of us will be affected as well.” IfsMindWellsHeartWarFieldsBattleInternalsAffectedHeart And Mind Author:Brenda Strong
“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
“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
“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