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Fields Quotes - Page 10

The foundation of confidence in virtually every field is preparation.

Brian Tracy (1998). “The Gift of Self-Confidence”, p.27, Jaico Publishing House

Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.

"Wonkbook: Ben Bernanke’s surprisingly excellent, radical speech" by Ezra Klein, Evan Soltas, www.washingtonpost.com. June 3, 2013.

Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept

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