Fields Quotes - Page 10
Ernest Bramah (1936). “The Kai Lung Omnibus”
The foundation of confidence in virtually every field is preparation.
Brian Tracy (1998). “The Gift of Self-Confidence”, p.27, Jaico Publishing House
Time Magazine, August 18, 1986.
Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
Attributed in N.Y. Times, 26 Dec. 1886. The earliest trace of this quotation was in Charles de Montalembert, De l'Avenir Politique de l'Angleterre (1856). Montalembert quoted Wellington, supposedly visiting his old school, in French: "C'est ici qu'a ete gagnee la bataille de Waterloo." In fact,Wellington was a notably unenthusiastic alumnus of Eton, and Elizabeth Longford, in Wellington: The Years of the Sword (1969), concludes that "probably he never said or thought anything of the kind." See O
"Vorlesungen über analytische Mechanik" edited by Helmut Pulte, 1996.