Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Gustave Flaubert

Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo of wool. It grosses 200 tons. It is bound for Le Havre. The mainmast is broken, the cabin boy is on deck, there are 12 passengers aboard, the wind is blowing East-North-East, the clock points to a quarter past three in the afternoon. It is the month of May. How old is the captain?”

Quote by Gustave Flaubert

Create image

Author

Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert, born on December 12, 1821 and died on May 8, 1880, was a prominent French writer of the 19th century. Known for his exquisite literary skills and profound psychological portrayals, Flaubert is best remembered for his masterpiece 'Madame Bovary'. more

You May Also Like

“We must drop the idea that change comes slowly. It does ordinarily - in part because we think it does. Today changes must come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits, so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight. We must discard the idea that past routine, past ways of doing things, are probably the best ways. On the contrary, we must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.”

ThinkingWayInspirationalDoeIdeasDoneTodayPastChangeAcceptingOne ThingAcceptancePositiveHabitAssumingMindsetContraryBest WayRoutineStoppingMaking ChangesDroppingAdjustmentBetter WaysDiscardedAdjustingDoings
Author:Donald M. Nelson
Create image

“Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading: Was it done, is it being done, or is something to be done? Reports are now written in four tenses: past tense, present tense, future tense, and pretense. Watch for novel uses of CONGRAM (CONtractor GRAMmer), defined by the past imperfect, the present insufficient, and the future absolutely perfect.”

TryingRealDoneUsePastReadingPerfectWatchesNovelFourWrittenFutureDefinedReportsImperfectionImperfectTensePretenseInsufficientBeing DoneContractorPresent Tense
Author:Amrom Harry Katz
Create image