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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
People
Will
Sail
Few
Rudder
Willing
Steer
Take
Most
Mount
Flag
Which
Use
Sermon
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
Leonardo da Vinci
Practice
Rudder
Cast
Never
He
Like
Knows
Without
Sailor
Ship
May
Where
Loves
Boards
Theory
Who
Compass
If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.
Freya Stark
Life
Faith
Age
Strong
Old
Will
Sail
Old Age
Rudder
Waters
Our
Steadily
Sure
Am
Surprises
Quiet
Hands
Hold
Richness
Launching a newspaper without a coherent idea of how you're going to promote it, or get it to people who might want to read it, is like launching a boat without a rudder or an engine... or a hull, now that I think about it.
Charlie Pierce
You
People
Think
Rudder
Launching
Promote
About
Idea
Like
Read
Without
How
Get
Going
Hull
Want
Newspaper
Boat
Might
Engine
Who
Now
Coherent
I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.
Clayton M. Christensen
Life
Time
School
Will
Important
Sail
Rudder
Back
Out
Promise
Purpose
Take
Students
Look
Most
Most Important Thing
Without
Important Thing
Discovered
Off
Very
Get
Just
The Most Important
While
Figure
Rough
Seas
Thing
The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run into something some day and cause a catastrophe.
Edward Grey
Day
Me
Cause
Will
Rudder
Run
Some
Something
Steam
He
Catastrophe
Emperor
Like
Up
German
Going
Ageing
After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.
Nguyen Cao Ky
Fate
Watergate
Own
Rudder
Drifting
Towards
Along
Devices
Without
Ship
Left
America
After
Vietnam
The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.
Orville Wright
Experience
Control
Down
Difficult
Too
Rudder
Air
Machine
Exceedingly
Balanced
Partly
Course
Due
Erratic
Up
Up And Down
Account
Handling
Front
Lack
Being
Center
Flight
Near
Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
Owen Feltham
Humanity
Liable
Rudder
Like
Without
Ship
Any
Stranded
Moment
Zeal