“The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.” MenArtistStruggleFieldsBattleEssentialsOrdinaryOrdinary Man Author:Andre Malraux
“On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer programmers, artists, lawyers, poets, plumbers, and auto mechanics -- women and men from many backgrounds come together to celebrate the mysteries of the Triple Goddess of the Dance of Life. The religion they practice is called Witchcraft.” MenTogetherArtistHousePracticeTeacherMysteryFieldsPoetMoonComputerOrdinaryMen And WomenLawyerBackgroundsCelebrateBeachRitualNurseGoddessMechanicWitchcraftPaganismProgrammersFull MoonPlumberComputer ProgrammersOpen FieldsWiccanAuto Mechanic Book:Spiral Dance: Slipcase Source: Spiral Dance: Slipcase
“The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that time and place, so that life around him presses in on all the senses and small details grow in significance. He begins the scanning search for which cognition was engineered. His mind becomes unfocused, it focuses on everything, no longer directed toward any ordinary task or social pleasantry.” MindSocialGrowsFieldsOrdinaryTasksPressesDetailsSensesSignificanceCivilizedHuntersCognitionNaturalistWoodlandSmall DetailsScanningPleasantries Author:E. O. Wilson
“The Red Cross in its nature, it aims and purposes, and consequently, its methods, is unlike any other organization in the country.It is an organization of physical action, of instantaneous action, at the spur of the moment; it cannot await the ordinary deliberation of organized bodies if it would be of use to suffering humanity,[ellipsis in original] it has by its nature a field of its own.” IfsCountryMomentsUseBodyWould BeActionPurposeSufferingHumanityFieldsOrdinaryRedCrossesOrganizationOriginalsAimMethodOrganizedSpursDeliberationInstantaneousRed CrossSpur Of The Moment Author:Clara Barton
“If, in the very intense electric field in the neighbourhood of the cathode, the molecules of the gas are dissociated and are split up, not into the ordinary chemical atoms, but into these primordial atoms, which we shall for brevity call corpuscles; and if these corpuscles are charged with electricity and projected from the cathode by the electric field, they would behave exactly like the cathode rays.” IfsFieldsOrdinaryIntenseBehaveGasChemicalsRaysAtomsSplitsElectricElectricityMoleculesBrevityNeighbourhoods Author:Joseph John Thomson
“I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.” BelieveSpiritualLawPoliticalSocialEconomicFieldsActivityOrdinaryContrary Book:Gandhi: Selected Writings Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
“We are having wool pulled over our eyes if we let ourselves be convinced that scientists, taken as a group, are anything special in the way of brains. They are very ordinary professional men, and all they know is their own trade, just like all other professional men. There are some geniuses among them, just as there are mental giants in any other field of endeavor.” IfsKnowsMenWayEyeScienceBrainTakenGroupsSpecialFieldsGeniusOrdinaryScientistTradeConvincedDeceptionGiantsEndeavorWool Author:Anthony Standen
“I'm a very, very modest person and with limited abilities. I do have the wish to succeed in anything I undertake, and that does help out, but, in general, there are so many other people who are skilled in their field that I feel very ordinary.” PeopleFeelsPersonsDoeHelpingWishAbilityFieldsSucceedOrdinaryModest Author:Edmund Hillary
“When ordinary human beings perform extraordinary acts of generosity, endurance or compassion, we are all made richer by their example. Like the rivers that flow out of the Karakoram and the Hindu Kush, the inspiration they generate washes down to the rest of us. It waters everyone's fields.” HumansMadeInspirationWaterHuman BeingsCompassionExampleFieldsOrdinaryFlowRiversExtraordinaryGenerosityEndurance Author:Greg Mortenson
“There are days when I am convinced that Heaven starts already, now, in this ordinary life just as it is, in all its incompleteness, yet, this is where Heaven starts.. see within yourself, if you can find it. I walked through the field in front of the house, lots of swallows flying, everywhere! Some very near me..it was magical. "We are already one, yet we know it not.” IfsKnowsWisdomHouseHeavenFrontsFieldsOrdinaryConvincedFlyingOrdinary LifeIncompleteness Author:Thomas Merton
“They say that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual. Truth be told, we don't love him because of that, but he was a great musician, and we all love his music. So what? I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in various fields. We have absolutely normal relations, and I don't see anything out of the ordinary here.” PeopleSometimesStatesFieldsTruth IsGayNormalAchievementMusicianOrdinaryRelationVariousPrizeAwardsSyriaHomosexualGay RightsGreat MusicDecorationGreat MusicianTruth Be ToldTchaikovsky Author:Vladimir Putin