Fields Quotes - Page 3

• Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

  Robert Collier

  Lying, Opportunity, Giving

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• I love experienced people. I love people who are phenomenally talented. I love people who've worked so hard and been so courageous and are the leaders in their fields. For me to meet somebody like that and learn from them and share words with them -to me that's magic.

  Michael Jackson

  People, Leader, Magic

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Mar 21, 2013

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• Fields' reply: He'd think I was a sissy.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Thinking, Sissy

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• Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

  Rumi

  Love, Friendship, Marriage

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.108, Lulu.com

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• In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.

  Louis Pasteur

  Past, Mind, Favors

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• Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Teacher, Nature

  "The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.

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• In Flanders fields the poppies blow.

  John McCrae

  Blow, Poppies, Larks

  "In Flanders Fields" l. 1 (1915)

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  Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

  Ted Williams

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

  Steven Levitt

  Cheating, Said

  Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (2006). “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything”, p.25, Penguin UK

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• I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

  Ovid

  Envy, Crops

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• Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Stars, Memories, Night

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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• But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years.

  Daniel Yergin

  Oil, Years, Agendas

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• The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields ... is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

  Leo Rosten

  Dog, Baby, Hate

  Speech at Hollywood dinner in honour of W. C. Fields, 16 February 1939, in 'Saturday Review' 12 June 1976

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• Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

  John Stuart Mill

  Teacher, Sleep, Enemy

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin”, p.120, John Wiley & Sons

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• All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.147, Broadway Books

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• Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.

  Althea Gibson

  Aspiration, Aspire, Amount

  Althea Gibson, Richard Curtis (1968). “So Much to Live for”

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• Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

  Jean-Henri Fabre

  Corny, Commonplace

  Jean-Henri Fabre, Alexander Teixeira De Mattos (2000). “The Life of the Fly”, p.175, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• It can hit at any time [anxiety/panic attack]. You feel like you're in an open field, and there's a tornado coming at you. And you're just consumed by it.

  Kim Basinger

  Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Tornadoes

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• There is a feeling when you are in Yankee Stadium that it is a very sacred ground you are walking on and you know you had the same feelings that other great players have had in other eras that played right there on that field.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Player, Yankee Stadium, Yankees

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. February 16, 2007.

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• I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field.

  Natalie Portman

  Thinking, Position Of Power, Able

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• That is again a romantic notion: the hero. I think people enjoy a much more levelled playing field where you have the ability for many people to become heroes.

  Martin Sorrell

  Hero, Thinking, People

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• American Rifleman and Field & Stream had ads for "varmint guns." Another varmint was a ground hog because a horse would be going along and he'd stick his foot in a ground hog hole and break his leg. So we were trying to prevent that, too. But we finally scared ourselves. We didn't realize we were nuts.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Horse, Gun, Nuts

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• Businesses will have to lead the charge - demanding uniform, national, predictable rules to govern this transition, so that there is a level and rational playing field on which they can compete to make the next fortunes.

  Van Jones

  Transition, Levels, Uniforms

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• Here you have the Republican Party, and they had, what, 16, 15 candidates seek the Republican nomination? And Donald Trump won it. And they have been enraged actually since day one when Trump announced, and his statement did not result in a Trump implosion, and then future Trump statements and appearances did not result in a Trump implosion. But the candidates that the Republican Party...They thought they had the best presidential field ever, and they hated and resented Trump for that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Presidential, Nominations

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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