Alan Villiers Quotes

#1. Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.

Josef Pieper

#2. There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.

Alan Villiers

#3. It is quite disappointing that people you love the most don't love what you love the most. They don't know you. Don't apologise for your dreams.

Enock Maregesi

#4. The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art

Alan Villiers

#5. If you have a goal in life that takes a lot of energy, that requires a lot of work, that incurs a great deal of interest and that is a challenge to you, you will always look forward to waking up to see what the new day brings.

Susan Polis Schutz

#6. Tolerance is nothing more than patience with boundaries.

Shannon L. Alder

#7. I'd like people to know that you can head off kidney disease, maybe prevent a transplant or stop the disease from progressing after detection by doing a simple urine test in the doctor's office.

Sean Elliott

#8. Boats in the harbor are safe but that is not what they are meant for.

Zig Ziglar

#9. Only prisoners have time to read, and if you want to engage in a twenty-year long research project funded by the state, you will have to kill someone.

Mark Fisher

#10. To listen also means to stay in relationship, the central challenge of our time, and this requires us to constantly minimize whatever stands between us and life.

Mark Nepo

#11. Every ship should have a cat.

Alan Villiers

#12. The psychiatrists say that everybody should have a hobby. The hobby I recommend is advertising

David Ogilvy

#13. Only fools and passengers drink at sea.

Alan Villiers

#14. You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.

Jenny Han

#15. You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca The Younger

#16. There's a genius in all of us.

Albert Einstein

#17. Why wouldn't you want to buy something that made you money?

Duncan Bannatyne