...may come nearer to your opinion of them. OSCAR WILDE FIFTY-FIVE Flexibility 1. GOING WITH THE FLOW The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. EDWARD GIBBON 2. BOOKER T.'S FLEXIBILITY Booker T. Washington arrived in a city to make a speech. His...

...best of their ability data on the capabilities and intentions of present or potential adversaries. "The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators," wrote Gibbon.22 Skillful navigation is dependent upon the gathering of precise information. Without...

...strategy by which they could have better served their own interest. Edward Gibbon has observed that "the winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."49 The British generals compounded their difficulties with nature by decisions fundamental...

...means contemptible.) [Roman Emperor, died 238] The Decline and Fall of tke Roman Empire Chapter 7 35' The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest of navigators. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Josiah Willard Gibbs 1839-1903 36 One of the...

...Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant. 3923 0 (in a pamphlet on the army) We are suffering from a debilitating f GIBBON lohn Murray 3924 I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead. GIBBONS Orlando...

...sort of clever stupidity to develop just one sort of talent—like a carrier pigeon. —George Eliot The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. —Edward Gibbon The best evidence of ability is an immense capacity for hard work and an intense conviction...

...around me myriads of other globes. — Walt Whitman, "Night on the Prairies," from Leaves of Grass The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. — Edward Gibbon *** Ly father's desk was filled with mysterious instruments. As a child, I'd slip...

...Chinese proverb Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas Edison The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Edward Gibbon Buy gear that is "good enough" but learn to use it really well. Owning a paint brush...

...Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. — Aldous Huxley The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. — Edu'ard Gibbon As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are....

...Future "A great historian1 once wrote [ — and all of you who are sailors know this, I'm sure — ]/the winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.' As we chart the future of our business, we have to be the ablest navigators of all. And while the outcome...