Lowell Thomas Quotes

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.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.

If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.

A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.

It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.

The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.

Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.

The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.

Young sailors once stood under a square sail, gazing wonderingly across the water to where a strange shore rose about the sea - a New World.

Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth.

Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea.

But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.

Psycho-babble is that language spoken by sailors who have become so interested in navigating their way around their boat that they have forgotten to read the stars and sea. They may be able to get from the galley to the head but will be lost in their journey from point to port.

Love creates new form, changes matter, and holds the cosmos together beyond time and space. It's in every one of us. It's what God is.

The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.

I'm standing at a crossroads. I'm not entirely sure what the future holds ... I'm at a crossroads, but it's a little bit different than the crossroads I've been at before because I'm doing what I do because I love it, and doing what I do because it's pure passion.

Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.

Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there.

I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.