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Adjusting course when the wind won't cooperate.

These sails quotes turn sailing into a metaphor for attitude, most famously contrasting the pessimist who complains about the wind with the realist who simply adjusts the sails. A more technical line explains how sailing's effect depends on arranging sails to the wind's Movement.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by William Falconer

Expects
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by William Arthur Ward

Time
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Nov 07, 2020

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

Quotes by John Florio

Nov 07, 2020

There is no trophy for the team that sails the most.

Quotes by James Spithill

Nov 07, 2020

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

Quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Cannot
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Dolly Parton

Grammar School
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Nov 07, 2020

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!

Quotes by Beverly Cleary

Out
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Nov 07, 2020

Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails.

Quotes by Andy Coulson

One quote pairs wisdom itself with sailing, noting it moves with both wind and time, while another wryly points out there's no trophy for the team that sails most. Explore related themes in Freedom quotes.

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