Assents To The Captain Quotes & Sayings

Just be true to yourself, and listen as much as one is able to to other people whose opinions you respect and look up to but in the end it has to come from you. You can't really worry too much by looking to the left and the right about what the competition is doing or what other people in your field are doing. It has to be a true vision. — Anna Wintour

I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real. — Laura Whitcomb

The will was the main target of bitterness — Paulo Coelho

I encased my heart in stone so as to stop it from beating — Sonya Watson

One of the most powerful and prophetic analysts was Karl Marx. He showed how work can alienate a person from their nature and potential. Certain work can dull and darken human presence ... the linear mind can miss its gift ... Perception is crucial to understanding. — John O'Donohue

Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it. — Paul De Rapin

I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life. — Charles Stross

When I fly, I never check my bags. I bring a carry-on, an eye pillow, noise-canceling headphones, a big pillow and a blanket. — Nina Dobrev

We must understand that when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it represses biological freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally good. — Robert M. Pirsig

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos. — Diana Gabaldon