Ships Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you need the approval of the platform vendor to ship an app, then it isn't a platform.

  Dave Winer

  Needs, Approval, Vendors

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

  James H. Boren

  Lectures, Navigation, Educator

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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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• Entrepreneurship is the engine fuelling innovation, employment generation and economic growth. Only by creating an environment where entrepreneur- ship can prosper and where entrepreneurs can try new ideas and empower others can we ensure that many of the world’s issues will not go unaddressed.

  Klaus Schwab

  Ideas, Creating, Issues

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

  Sheryl Crow

  Waiting, Desert, Standing

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Clint Eastwood just runs an incredibly tight ship, but it's really laid back.

  Matt Damon

  Running, Laid Back

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• A rotten ship is not afraid of the storms!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Storm, Rotten, Not Afraid

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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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• 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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• If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Distance, Long, Water

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• Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Rudders, Security, Values

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• It was such a dramatic escalator that I was on. It was at 90 degrees. I was going straight up like a rocket ship into space. And I was thrown in with the sharks. They said sink or swim in this Cup deal.

  Kurt Busch

  Sharks, Space, Swim

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• Insulate yourself...
  from anonymous angry people
  Expose yourself to art you don't yet understand
  Precisely measure the results that are important to you
  Stay blind to the metrics that don't matter
  Fail often
  Ship
  Lead, don't manage so much
  Seek out uncomfortable situations
  Make an impact on the people who matter to you
  Be better at your baseline skills than anyone else
  Copyedit less, invent more
  Give more speeches
  Ignore unsolicited advice

  Seth Godin

  Art, Impact, Skills

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