Quotes About Navigation

Not with all his brain development can man tell how a bird or an animal can be crated, taken miles away in darkness, and when released, strike back towards its home. Man only knows that animals can do what he can neither do himself nor explain.

A poor grasp of dead reckoning may have led Christopher Columbus to North America instead of India, a navigational error of about eight thousand miles.

There is no doubt that the last hour of any flight is the hardest. If there are any clouds about to make shadows one is likely to see much imaginary land. . . . As I approached shore I strained my eyes to see something recognizable, and there was nothing. However, I noticed a low place in the hills, and I thought, like the bear, I would go over the mountains to see what I could see.

When it does not yield to the rudder," said he to them, "the ship yields to the rock.

What I do know is that if one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river.

When it comes to exploring the sea of love, I prefer buoys.

The lake was always my orienting point when my dad was teaching me how to not get lost. The lake is east, so you'll always know that. It's a weird thing where you can kind of feel where you're at in Chicago, and when I was downtown, I was like, 'Oh, it feels more open over here. That must be east.' It felt like a little secret thing.

And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.

In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west.

I propose to construct a new chart for navigating, on which I shall delineate all the sea and lands of the Ocean in their proper positions under their bearings; and further, I propose to prepare a book, and to put down all as it were in a picture, by latitude from the equator, and western longitude.

For me, being able to go anywhere you want, with an element of precision and control, has been the goal.

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.

Some of the best navigators in the world are London taxi cab drivers. They have to learn 25,000 streets and how to get from one to the other.

The tasks were too many, the seas too vast, the sails too few.

Meeker Markers" at important trail junctions.

The best captains endure the most turbulence and greatest storms.

I hate when people question my ability to get from one place to another without mutilating myself. It's tantamount to saying, "Try to get home without screwing it up like last time, dummy," or "Farewell, for I may never see you again, given the mortality that awaits us all like a crouching panther.

the wagons were turned clear around, and many of the terrified oxen attempted to turn to the hills, with the heavy wagons attached to them. Others turned around so short

he seemed to have been driving for hours . . . going round and round in large or small circles, asking the way and being unable to understand the answers (when answers were vouchsafed), all the time seemingly more off-course than ever.

The shortest distance between two points assumes you know where you're going.

And I, I took the road less traveled by. I was using a GPS system.

The importance of ships employing these optimum tactics is illustrated by the fact that only 29 percent of the dives on ships using the proper tactics, as defined above, were successful whereas 47 percent of the dives were successful on ships using other than these tactics.14

I was east of Skepticism and north of Faith, with an unsettled compass and variable winds. But I could offer up a prayer as well as the next man, and leave it to Heaven to judge the result.

That man,' Elayne said, 'is never where he needs to be.' 'And yet,' Perrin said, 'he always arrives there eventually.