"He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience."

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Source : Samuel Eliot Morison, Emily Morison Beck (1989). “Sailor historian: the best of Samuel Eliot Morison”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Samuel Eliot Morison

#Long Quotes #Experience Quotes #May Quotes

“Travel is the excitement of life! Everything is an adventure, and if you look at it like that, even at the worst moment you can say: 'We will laugh tomorrow about this.' And you do.”
“It is better to give children a rule to break than to give them no rules at all.”
“A cross without offense to the world is a cross without power in the world.”
“Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.”

Source : Interview at Scientific American online, March 26, 2001.
“Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends.”
“You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don't have to. It's that simple.”

Source : "High-Performance Marketing: An Interview with Nike's Phil Knight" by Phil KnightGeraldine E. Willigan, hbr.org. July 1, 1992.
“We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.”

Source : Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.127, NYU Press
“My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.”

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