"Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead."

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Source : Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.275, Applewood Books

Joshua Slocum

#Building Quotes #Good Work Quotes #Vessel Quotes

“The obstacles to peace are in the minds and hearts of men. In the study of matter we can be honest, impartial, true. That is why we succeed in dealing with it. But about the things we care for â€” which are ourselves, our desires and lusts, our patriotisms and hates â€” we find a harder test of thinking straight and truly. Yet there is the greater need. Only by intellectual rectitude and in that field shall we be saved. There is no refuge but in truth, in human intelligence, in the unconquerable mind of man.”

Source : Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. June 12, 1935.
“I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball)”
“Thereâ€™s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his faceâ€¦ I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone elseâ€™s. Thatâ€™s a difficult statement to live up to, but then Iâ€™ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.”
“Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.”
“The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.”
“There is a deep interconnectedness of all life on earth, from the tiniest organisms, to the largest ecosystems, and absolutely between each person.”
“Wednesdays were the best thing about Atlantis. The middle of the week was a traditional holiday there. Everyone stopped work and celebrated the fact that half the week was over.”

Source : Walter Moers (2006). “13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear”, p.296, The Overlook Press
“Those Europeans, they know how to negotiate.”

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