"The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good."
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"When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you."
"Women are the field that produces our nation. And if you can't protect your women, you can't protect your nation."
"Always when I come to the field, I try to do my best for other people."
"I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two."
"The force fields of nature are force fields of consciousness. They are force fields of knowledge."
"In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts."
"I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields."
"Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil."
"Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness."
"In the fields of opportunity it's plowing time again."
"The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers."
"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."
"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."
"If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field."
"The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips."
"I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields."
"I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented."
"The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words."
"He’s a fantastic talent and the complete footballer, probably the most coveted in the Premiership. It’s a privilege for the rest of us to be on the same field. If i could have anything i wanted for Christmas, i’d take Thierry Henry"