Projection into the future does not create security because the future is not really there. It's a fluid mirage. The only security is merging with The Field, right now.
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.
We live inside our mind. That's all there is. Everything that you experience is not external, it's internal. All your experiences are predicated upon your awareness field.
Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention. . . Maybe it's because in a country that prides itself on being egalitarian, sport is intellectually and socio-economically an equal playing field. In fact, the more humble your background, the better, the underdog-turned champion is a narrative that resonates powerfully. We're far less interested in the stories of our best doctors, writers, lawyers, engineers, teachers or social workers. Their triumphs do not capture our collective imaginations.
I've never wanted to chuck my mortgage, drop the kids off at their grandparents' and run gloriously naked in fields of flax.
Spiritually, yes, now many people knows Tibetans in spiritual field are very, very advanced but in material field is very, very backward.
Those who spend their strength in field and factory would rather hear that their emancipation is bound to come than that it is something to be hazardously purchased by struggle and sacrifice.
I could do exploration in this particular career field, and it was a goal that, even if I didn't reach it, it was so high it seemed almost impossible, but even if I didn't reach it, I would still have a good time and a very satisfying career.
I've always believed a great photographer should concentrate more on depth of feeling and less on depth of field.
The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field. " They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.
The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and coming down the lane with me, then.
I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.
I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.
Sometimes I find myself exploring very different and new fields but I have a very clear vision of what I would like to do and the questions I would like to raise.
It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.
Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.
If you don't actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field.
I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.
I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.
