Fields Quotations | Page 3

To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.

Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields.

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.

I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.

Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.

I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fishermen and the families that ran the boats. I would go work the fields with farmers. I would go and talk with farmers about growing particular products for me.

Is instinct in the head or in the heart? Off the field, I follow my good instincts which steer me in the right direction. Sometimes on the field my head leads me astray. That's what I believe.

The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

How the woman movement has elevated woman's work, since it has raised the standard of qualification in many fields and increased the feeling of responsibility in all!

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.

Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.

As a boy, it was clear that my inclinations were toward the physical sciences. Mathematics, mechanics, and chemistry were among the fields that gave me a special satisfaction.

I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.

And Clinton was like that - he saw the whole playing field. He didn't just see the event that he was at or the circumstances of that week or that month. He saw the whole playing field all the time.

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.

Track and field was very big when I was growing up.

It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.

Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close.

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.

I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

In the fields I know best, among the life sciences, it is required that the most expert and sophisticated minds be capable of changing course - often with a great lurch - every few years.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

I am pushed by my critics. I don't want to say I want to prove them wrong, but it pushes me on the field to play with a chip on my shoulder, and I play best when I have a chip on my shoulder.

While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.

I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language.

The movie I've seen a million times is 'Steel Magnolias,' directed by Herbert Ross, starring Sally Field and Julia Roberts.

A force field is basically an invisible shield. You push a button and all of a sudden a bubble forms around you which is impenetrable. It can stop bullets, it can stop ray gun blasts and we realized force fields are actually a little bit difficult to create.

The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.

On the Republican playing field, Republicans always win.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not.

Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

Whatever the potential pitfalls, banks are increasingly enthusiastic about venture capital, particularly in new companies with strong prospects in fields like health care and technology.

One of my fields of experience is with pension funds. And what this governor has done is dangerous, and I will immediately take steps to undo this.

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory

I work specifically with the athletic department on all of the fields here at UK. My crew is responsible for the day-to-day maintenance and game preparation of six different sports fields.

Some areas will have active sports fields like that, but the majority of this will be left in natural state.

Some are from the world of the arts, some from the fields of business, architecture, wine-making and education. What they have in common is that they are all known nationally -- and many internationally -- for their wide-ranging achievements.

Of course, it is very expensive too. You have to pay the coaches and for the fields and the lights. You have to pay for equipment.

Right now it's very clay-like soil that holds a lot of water and gets real spongy. The clay soil holds the water so the fields stay wet. We can't mow it and then it's unsafe to play on. It's a vicious cycle.

I have desired to go / Where springs not fail, / To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail / And a few lilies blow,

I'd love to work across all three fields - theatre, film and TV.

Many millions of people across the seas, as well as our own people, must rely in large part upon the products of our fields and ranges.

There are people who think there are hundreds of millions, perhaps even billion barrel oil fields down there or trillions of cubic feet of gas.

When this secondary task was of a linguistic nature, the differences in response times for stimuli in the two visual fields disappeared. The differences remained, however, when the secondary task was of a non-linguistic nature.

There are perhaps opportunities for greater political cooperation, at least more cooperation than exists now. But there can be no cooperation in the field because every situation is different

Let us teach that the honor of a nation consists not in the forced submission of other states, but in equal laws and free institutions, in cultivated fields and prosperous cities; in the development of intellectual and moral power, in the diffusion of knowledge, in magnanimity and justice, in the virtues and blessings of peace.

Since theological propositions are scientifically meaningless, those of us of pragmatic disposition simply won't buy such dubious merchandise. . . . Maybe -- remotely -- there might be something in such promotions, as there might be something in the talking dogs and the stocks in Arabian tapioca mines that W.C. Fields once sold in his comedies, but we suspect that we recognize a con game in operation. At least, we want to hear the dog talk or see the tapioca ore before we buy into such deals.

Move him into the sun Gently its touch awoke him once,At home, whispering of fields unsown.Always it woke him, even in France,Until this morning and this snow.

Since the school opened up (in Sept. 2000) the grass has never had the proper time to establish itself and completely fill in. The constant beating these fields have undergone is beginning to deteriorate them badly and immediate actions need to be taken to remedy this situation.

When you put on that black robe and assume your spot on the Supreme Court, you will surely bring with you your heart and your soul, the values you learned from your parents and others that you learned as you grew up in the wide open fields of your youth, ... I must say, sir, they must never leave you.

Maiden, and mistress of the months and stars/ Now folded in the flowerless fields of heaven.

L. R. H. in Clearing Procedure, 1957:"The work was free. Keep it so."Therefore, although we have no such stature as the Great Philosophies, I charge you with this - look to source writings, not to interpretations. Look to the original work, not offshoots. If I have fought for a quarter of a century, most of it alone, to keep this work from serving to uphold the enslavers of Man, to keep it free from some destructive "pitch" or slant, then you certainly can carry that motif a little further. I'll not always be here on guard. The stars twinkle in the Milky Way and the wind sighs for songs across the empty fields of a planet a Galaxy away. You won't always be here. But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons - "The work was free. Keep it so.

Silence and sleep like fields / Of amaranth lie.

I've taken up the Bible again, somewhat in the spirit of W.C. Fields - looking for loopholes.

Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities

Life is a field of unlimited possibilities.

The force fields of nature are force fields of consciousness. They are force fields of knowledge.

Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness with you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality.

Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is one unified field of wholeness. Here the seer and the scenery are one.

There are periods in life when you get caught up in the whole field of relativity and lose your moorings with the absolute.

Look, I don't want to win in the press. I want to win on the field.

I just didn’t want to be pigeonholed as an 'ethnic comic' or an 'Asian comic.' I just wanted to be on the same playing field as everyone else.

Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.

I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a person and as a historian, although it must be admitted it has served to make my historical interpretations less conventional than may be acceptable of many of my colleagues in the field.

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

Kevin Fields really gave us a spark. When you have three guys hitting double figures, you've got a good chance (to win).

There are still a lot of narrow fields out there. It's a completely different game when you have to play on a football field and we have to be able to adapt to that. If you want to win, you have to learn to deal with any situation.

We are going to put the fields in the best condition we can,

This was one of the toughest, if not the toughest, fields we've had.

Growing and developing fields performed as well as expected for this time of the year ... The warm growing conditions made it more difficult for these fields to have optimum growth and development.

From what I can tell, it's a good deal for the city, where we can wind up with four soccer fields replacing one, for instance.

I am excited about this unique conference that will bring together women leaders from around the world to network, motivate each other, provide insight into their fields of expertise, and share their inspirational stories of success.

I don't remember any kind of bet. Jim and I play together over the summer and we're pretty good friends. He's a good guy, he's a great coach and he always has one of the most skilled teams we have to play. He fields one of the best passing teams in the area. He always puts out a good product. In fact, now that you mention it, I think he might owe me a dinner.

From the time I was a small boy, I remember working in the fields with my grandfather and father. We weren't growing grapes, but we were farming crops, creating something good out of the earth.

I expect her to be a consistent, solid player, but this exceeded my expectations. She hit the ball hard every time at bat. Even the out she made were hit hard. She's got great confidence at the plate. She's very relaxed when she goes up there. She can hit the ball to all fields and she goes with the pitch very well.

I believe the visit will deepen bilateral cooperation in various fields and upgrade the China-Canada comprehensive partnership to a new level.

Basically, we wanted to tell them when we say the fields are closed, we mean closed.

China believes both itself and Germany are influential countries in the world and their respective regions, they have broad fields and great potentials of cooperation.

China is ready to work with Canada to tap the potential of continued cooperation in all fields in the spirit of equality and mutual benefit so as to better serve our two peoples and further promote peace, stability and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region and the world at large.

China will actively encourage her best companies to invest in Guinea to conduct economic cooperation of various fields and in various forms,

Basically, it was developed as an all-school project. We have faculty from nearly all fields as well as staff and students.

What is decisive is what actually happens, ... The need for reform in those fields is undisputed. If we don't manage to agree on real, far-reaching reforms here, the grand coalition would be meaningless.

We swung the ball and switched fields real well tonight.

We're pleased that our Green Wave teams will be able to continue to compete and proudly represent Tulane University and the city of New Orleans during the fall semester. We have received a tremendous amount of support already from our Conference USA family and from athletics programs around the country. This collaborative effort to put Tulane University teams on the fields of play this fall is unprecedented.

He was our most consistent pitcher. He did a good job of getting the fastball over with the changeup. He's a great athlete who fields well and does a good job of holding runners on. He never seems to get rattled.

We may talk as we please of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles in fields of d'or or d'argent, but if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in the field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms

We make it very clear to employees that you are allowed to advance and there is no glass ceiling that prevents them to advance because of their heritage. We have had people go from our fields to our office.