Lynda Field Quotes

#1. I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.

Jonathan Carroll

#2. There are vast differences between scripts and stories, of course. Few fiction writers would want to give up the opportunity to explore how the minds of their characters work, or to set aside the opportunity to provide necessary background exposition in a succinct fashion.

Les Standiford

#3. People who achieve their goals do so with passion, planning, persistence and purpose.

Lynda Field

#4. The man's tongue was like a heat-seeking missile and it blew Kory to pieces.

Gina A. Rogers

#5. I'll play anyone in Uno and crush them.

Nikki Sixx

#6. Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind.

Lynda Resnick

#7. Persistence is the quality of winners. Successful people never, never give up.

Lynda Field

#8. In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult belonging has to be chosen, received, and renewed. It is a lifetime's work.

John O'Donohue

#9. The real subject of every painting is light.

Claude Monet

#10. He again fully and sincerely loved mankind.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. Motivated people are passionate! They love what they do and they are full of themselves (in the nicest possible way). Their enthusiasm and excitement are catching and they attract other people's interest and attention.

Lynda Field

#12. You are the only one who can make it happen for you. Others can support and encourage you, but you have to find the energy within in order to step into the center of your own life and take charge.

Lynda Field

#13. The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#14. The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.

Harold H. Greene

#15. This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own ...

Woodrow Wilson

#16. Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

Todd Akin

#17. ...man is a useless passion.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#18. The best way we can help our children welcome challenges is to encourage them to work just outside their comfort zone, stand by to lend a hand when needed, and model enthusiasm for challenging tasks.

Madeline Levine

#19. The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.
[Letter objecting to the use of government land for churches, 1803]

James Madison