Ships Quotes - Page 8

• Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down.

  James H. Boren

  Lectures, Navigation, Educator

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• The big man in a small village is the big ship in a small lake! Let him sail to the vast oceans!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ocean, Men, Lakes

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• A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: Courage; courage to leave the known for the unknown!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Journey, Wind, Important

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• A rotten ship is not afraid of the storms!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Storm, Rotten, Not Afraid

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• Don't be afraid of the storms; be afraid of the ship and the captain! Forget about the outside factors, what matters is the internal power!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  What Matters, Storm, Captains

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• For humans as well as for ships, dark stormy nights are better teachers than tranquil sunny days.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Teacher, Dark, Night

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• You need to save some mental, physical, and emotional resources for enhancing your product after you ship. A revolution is a triathlon, not a hundred-yard dash-it requires long distance stamina and multiple skills such as creating, churning, and evangelizing.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Distance, Emotional, Skills

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• My formative years, until I was 12, was all shaped by Jamaican culture, by that economy, by the people in my family, who are agriculturalists, who were plantation workers, who harvested those crops and took them down to the boats run by the United Food Company, to load those ships at night, hence all the songs that I sing that come from that environment.

  Harry Belafonte

  Running, Song, Night

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm standing in the desert, waiting for my ship to come in.

  Sheryl Crow

  Waiting, Desert, Standing

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• I prefer to sail in a bad ship with a good captain rather than sail in a good ship with a bad captain.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Captains, Sail

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• If you are in a remote desert island, let your best hope be your own efforts to build a ship instead of waiting for a ship to appear among the fogs!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Islands, Fog, Effort

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• If you don't trust either the captain or the ship, there remains only one thing for safety: Trusting the storm!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Safety, Storm, Captains

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• If you have a guru, leave him; if you don't have, get one. In other words, keep changing your gurus! Ocean's wisdom comes from knowing many ships and many fishes, many storms and many waves!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ocean, Knowing, Storm

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• Man is not a ship in harbour; Earth is not a ship in harbour; even Universe is not a ship in harbour! No safe harbour for anything exists!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Earth, Safe

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• Our heart is a port; allow every ship to come to the port; but let only the best one to anchor!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Heart, Anchors, Port

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• When the ship is sinking and you're forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to island. You don't have to pick.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Islands, Sides, Sinking

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2014.

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• Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Practice, Knowing, Entering

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• Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.

  Arthur Koestler

  Space, Machines, Desdemona

  1953 'The Boredomof Fantasy', collected in The Trail of the Dinosaur (1955), pt.2.

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• And there are Ben [Jonson] and William Shakespeare in wit-combat, sure enough; Ben bearing down like a mighty Spanish war-ship, fraught with all learning and artillery; Shakespeare whisking away from him - whisking right through him, athwart the big bulk and timbers of him; like a miraculous Celestial Light-ship, woven all of sheet-lightning and sunbeams!

  Thomas Carlyle

  War, Light, Woven

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• There is a persistent funny form of suspicion in most of us that we can solve our own problems and be the masters of our own ships of life, but the fact of the matter is that by ourselves we can only be consumed by our problems and suffer the shipwreck.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Suffering, Matter, Facts

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• To the documentary director the appearance of things and people is only superficial. It is the meaning behind the thing and the significance underlying the person that occupy his attention... Documentary approach to cinema differs from that of story-film not in its disregard for craftsman-ship, but in the purpose to which that craftsmanship is put. Documentary is a trade just as carpentry or pot-making. The pot-maker makes pots, and the documentarian documentaries.

  Paul Rotha

  People, Directors, Cinema

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• When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Captains, Gale, Crew

  Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.6748, Delphi Classics

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• God's people should plan for a voyage of a thousand years, but be prepared to abandon ship tonight.

  Joseph Bayly

  Years, People, Tonight

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• It's an old sailor's idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other held by the loved ones at home.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Home, Ideas, Bows

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• I'm bemused by the whole Robbie Williams aspect of British pop. Posh Spice? It all looks like cruise ship entertainment to me.

  David Bowie

  Looks, Spices, Entertainment

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