Able Quote by Otto Neurath

“We are like sailors who must rebuild their ship on the open sea, never able to dismantle it in dry-dock and to reconstruct it…

— Otto Neurath

“It's hard to salvage jettisoned cargo and, if it is retrieved, it's usually irreparably damaged. And I fear that when you can afford to…

— Margaret Mitchell

“We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom.”

— Otto Neurath

When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I would rather sail and hit a rock than sit and rot in dry dock.

— Lester Roloff

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea…

— Sylvia Earle

Take a chance in life because a ship is safe in the harbor...but that's not what it was built for!..

— Anonymous

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather…

— Antoine De Saint-Exupery

“a ship could be built entirely from foreign planks, but it must have its own form”

— Osip Mandelstam

I saw a documentary on how ships are kept together. Riveting!

— Stewart Francis