Charlie Pierce
Charlie Pierce

Launching a newspaper without a coherent idea of how you're going to promote it, or get it to people who might want to read it, is like launching a boat without a rudder or an engine... or a hull, now that I think about it.

Clayton M. Christensen
Clayton M. Christensen

I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.

Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

Edward Grey
Edward Grey

The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run into something some day and cause a catastrophe.

Eileen Caddy
Eileen Caddy

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Eric Hill
Eric Hill

As a child, during the war, I drew Spitfires and Messerschmitts. With Spot, I found that I had designed a fuselage! His spot is on his side, the roundel marking of an English fighter plane, and the color bar of his tail is the color stripes of a plane's rudder.

Nguyen Cao Ky
Nguyen Cao Ky

After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

Orville Wright
Orville Wright

The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.

Owen Feltham
Owen Feltham

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.