This last sentence is particularly true and so, despite the captain's insistence, are City allowing a negative mind-set to hamper them?
"The continued run of poor UK public borrowing figures looks set to severely hamper the chancellor's ability to announce giveaways to address his party's deficit in the national opinion polls before next year's general election," said Samuel Tombs, senior economist at Capital Economics.
He added: "But with recent strong demand from first-time buyers set to be hampered by higher inflation, and credit standards no looser than last year, we don't expect approvals to surge".
Horne, a 35-year-old pit worker from South Yorkshire, was a regular on the picket line and had become used to clambering over fences and crossing streams to avoid the police road blocks set up to hamper the striking miners.
With inflation likely to hold stubbornly above the 2.5% mark for much or all of 2013, real earnings growth looks set to remain elusive, hampering consumer spending in the UK economy.
Anything lacking in the Elliott household she was able to supplement from a china breakfast set to a clothes hamper.
"These measures damage the business reputation of Serbia and Yugoslavia as a whole and erode creditor and investor confidence". Serbia's move is certain to hamper negotiations, set to begin Thursday, between the leaders of the country's six highly autonomous republics on their future relationship.
The bad news is that mind-sets and practices tend to hamper the generation of and participation in those flows.
Catwoman doesn't have Batman's array of gadgets, but she does carry a whip, a set of bolos and caltrops to hamper her attackers.
The lack of 3D did little to hamper the take-up of television sets.
This is bound to hamper the recovery.
