Quotes About Navigation

You have to trim your sails to take advantage of how the wind is blowing. Think coolly, and you make it back to shore. Get your neck hot, and you'll drown.

So we navigate mostly by dead reckoning, and deduction from what clues we find. I keep a compass in one pocket for overcast days when the sun doesn't show directions and have the map mounted in a special carrier on top of the gas tank where I can keep track of miles from the last junction and know what to look for. With those tools and a lack of pressure to 'get somewhere' it works out fine and we just about have America all to ourselves.

Don't be like my friend who tried to swim against the rip current.

Tact is a faculty for meandering around to a given point instead of making a bee-line.

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We stop, swivel, pause in the middle of the Grand Canal. We're waiting for another water taxi to emerge from under a bridge, and once it's gone we pass through, the buses slipping past us, a gondola too, the gondolier angling his pole skillfully under the bridge; everyone seems to know how to get past everyone else with no obvious rules, no traffic lanes. "Imagine a pileup," Paige comments. "Everyone would drown.

The next day, Magellan gave the order to weigh anchor. The ships fired a salvo of cannon that reverberated among the splendid dark green mountains, gray ravines, and azure glaciers of the strait, and the armada set sail once again, heading west, always west.

Europeans knew little about the ocean beyond latitude 27°N, marked by Cape Bojador in West Africa.

because they knew the sea better than they knew land;

It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.

The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.

The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.

If you want to see sharks, I'd go to the port side. That's the left side for you landlubbers.

Books and stories are lifelines, and libraries house those lifelines, making them available to all. They are important not just for the books, but for the space and freedom they provide, as well as the navigation and advice provided by librarians.

Infinite scrolling should never be employed for interfaces in which users need to get to the end of the list quickly, or need to return to a particular list item after navigating elsewhere.

Over the past hundred and fifty years , it has become increasingly difficult to extricate reading from academic expectations; but I believe such extrication is necessary. Education is and should be primarily about intellectual navigation, about --I scruple not to say it -- skimming well, and reading carefully for information in order to upload content. Slow and patient reading, by contrast, properly belongs to our leisure hours.

I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.

You are my compass star." And he was hers.

We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don't hesitate to be a lighthouse.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Two of the most important characteristics of good design are discoverability and understanding.

Chapman's Piloting, Seamanship, and Small Boat Handling

Live your life by a compass, not a clock.

I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.