Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
Freedom is taking control of the rudder of your life.
A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.
Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing.
Law is the rudder of the ship of state.
Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.
Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment
Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals.
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.
The past can be a rudder that guides you or an anchor tha hinders you. Leave your mistakes with God and look to the future by faith.
Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.
The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course.
If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.
The entity that gives life and motion to the human body is finer still and lies infinitely beyond the reach of our finest scientific instruments. When this entity deserts the body, the body is like a ship without a rudder - deserted, motionless, dead.
The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.
A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U. S.
Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.
The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.
Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.