“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

What does it mean?

Giving people orders is less powerful than giving them a dream. When people truly want the goal, they will find the way to do the work.

Key vocabulary

drum up

gather or call together

long for

want something very much

immensity

very great size

• “Words are the source of misunderstandings.”– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry