If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.
I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open; your field is the entire human condition.
Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study - ourselves.
I love Serena [Williams]. Seeing what Serena's done in her field has been incredible.
…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
Who can object to a monopoly when any new company, if it is built around a scientific nucleus, can create a new monopoly of its own by creating a wholly new field?
A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field.
I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
And all now is war where so lately there was peace, and the sweet brotherhood, the use of tilled fields.
Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure - just a big field to wander in.
The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
One of the things I've done is tell myself I can't let bad things that happen to me on the field, off the field, whatever, affect me.
You have to have patience in this field.
Losing touch with spirit does nothing to the field of creativity, which is beyond harm; but it can do much to damage a person's chance in life.
In a thousand fields the welfarists, statists, socialists, and interventionists are daily driving for more restrictions on individual liberty.
On the field I defend our colours, love our flag and sing our anthem. I could not be more Italian than I am now.
Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.
Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages. . . all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on. . . There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.
Refined indifference is a sports psychology precept: train like there's no tomorrow and then accept whatever happens. Once you step on the field realize that whatever is meant to be is meant to be.