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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

When you do a record like 'Talk,' and you're happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn't sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little.

I've always loved the songs of the sea. I was first introduced to them back in 1957, at the Old Town School of Folk Music. I used to go to Pete Seeger concerts, and he would do songs like 'Ruben Ranzo' and talk about how the sailors sang songs to do their work - to raise the anchors, pull up the sails and that sort of thing.

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that sails right over the heads of most kids. There's something to be said for a well-told fairy tale. There's a reason that these mythic stories stay with us.

Sails Quotes

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