A few favourite quotes..
There's no such thing as a fair wind for a man who has no idea where he's going.
(Seneca, 43 AD)
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour: Catch the trade winds in your sails. Dream. Discover.
(Mark Twain)
Murphy's Law as extended by Bill King:
- It something can go wrong, it will.
- Nothing is quite so bad as it seems.
- If anything goes wrong, it is usually your own fault.
- In life nothing is fair or unfair. Things are.
(Bill King - round the world sailor of the old school.)
We can't be lost if we don't care where we are!
(Read this somewhere recently, can't remember where.)
A navigator is never lost but he may be temporarily unsure of his position.
(Traditional)
"Never go to sea without a sense of apprehension"
(Sir Robin Knox Johnson at a lecture in Dartmouth, UK, October 2007).
Was A E Housman a sailor?:
- Therefore, since the world has still
- Much good, but much less good than ill,
- And while the sun and moon endure
- Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure,
- I'd face it as a wise man would,
- And train for ill and not for good.
- Much good, but much less good than ill,
From: A Shropshire Lad - Poem LXII, "Terence, this is stupid stuff",
"A goal without a plan is just a wish."
(
Antoine de Saint-Exupery)