Field Quotes

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.

If I was crazy, I'd throw the ball into the stands with the bases loaded. Now, that's crazy. If I was stupid, I'd throw the ball into center field with the bases loaded and a 3-2 count on the hitter. Now, that's stupid.

Well, of course I would choose to be the top scientist in my field.

I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there.

The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn't do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates.

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field.

You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors.

Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.'

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

I don't think they should regulate the music field. I don't see how they can regulate the arts.

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

On the field, everyone is equal.

I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.

I'm taking T.O., every day... He gives me the whole football field.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.