The Norwegian Shipping Academy - Foundation established by The Norwegian Shipowners Association to improve business performance through education and training programmes.
Vestfold Department of Maritime Studies - The students become qualified for senior positions in the merchant navy or offshore, or within shore-based maritime activities.
IDESS Maritime Training Centres - IDESS is an independent organisation providing training services to the maritime and offshore industries.
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
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-- Salvador Dali "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maritime Training The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Maritime Training
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Maritime Training Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Maritime Training
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Maritime Training I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Maritime Training
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Maritime Training Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Maritime Training
"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Maritime Training This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Maritime Training
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Maritime Training In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Maritime Training
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Maritime Training You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maritime Training
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Maritime Training "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Maritime Training
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Maritime Training It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Maritime Training
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Maritime Training I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Maritime Training
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Maritime Training Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maritime Training
