Moitessier Joshua Quotes & Sayings

I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits. To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree's point of view, this is just the chattering of birds. — Ajahn Chah

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin. — T.E. Lawrence

Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. — Jeanette Winterson

There has always been tension between reporters and the administration, particularly when it comes to war in the modern era. You can go to Kennedy or Johnson and see that they weren't happy with David Halberstam or Morley Safer. — Lowell Bergman

Want a role? Fuck a screenwriter. — A.D. Posey

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I. — Ralph Nader

The secret of evangelism is Guy's golden touch - whatever is gold, Guy touches. That's very different than saying whatever Guy touches turns gold. — Guy Kawasaki

As soothing as it would be to rip off his arm and beat him with it, it would really slow things down. — Eileen Wilks

I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time. — Alan Dershowitz

In the middle of our lives, we mistakenly fall prey to the myth that successful people are those who help rather than need, and broken people need rather than help. — Brene Brown

Life is complicated, but not uninteresting — Jerzy Neyman

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Consciousness is the process of creating a model of the world using multiple feedback loops in various parameters (e.g., in temperature, space, time, and in relation to others), in order to accomplish a goal (e.g., find mates, food, shelter). I call this the "space-time theory of consciousness, — Michio Kaku

I realized little by little that words are very powerful, and taking those words to encourage people rather than tear them apart was the desire of my heart. — Tracie Peterson

One thing at a time, as in the days when I was building Joshua. If I had wanted to build all the boat at once, the enormity of the task would have crushed me. I had to put all I had into the hull alone, without thinking about the rest. It would follow . . . with the help of the gods. Sailing non-stop around the world is the same. I do not think anyone has the means of pulling it off - at the start. — Bernard Moitessier