Quotes About Navigation

Sometimes the paths that lead back to places get blocked.

There are no trees in Iceland," - "We have a joke, do you know it?" She took a breath, then said, "What do you do if you get lost in a forest in Iceland?" I shook my head. "I dunno." "Stand up.

How many people must have sailed out and vanished on the Pacific before you found Easter Island?

this thing of venturing out on the ocean where you don't see land.

To be human is to be lost in the woods.

Het heeft weinig zin te blijven studeren op een plattegrond die je zelf hebt getekend.

idea of the latitude and longitude of Treasure Isle, which,

We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils.

Si un objeto cae, golpea los cuerpos que encuentra en su caída y les comunica movimiento según su densidad... Si un navío navega de A hacia B, abate en su rumbo debido al factor C, integrado por el viento y la corriente... Ése es el catecismo real. El único que sirve de algo.

And I believe that a lost ship/steered by tired, seasick sailors/can still be guided home/to port

Keep your feet on the deck, your hands on the tiller, your eyes on the horizon and your beer in the fridge!

Going from an error rate of 25 meters in GPS to 2.5 meters is huge. Going to 25 centimeters is going to matter just as much.

Take Google Maps or Waze. On the one hand, they amplify human ability - you are able to reach your destination faster and more easily. But at the same time, you are shifting the authority to the algorithm and losing your ability to find your own way.

You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.

I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

I use maps in my phone a great deal because I can't tell left from right. Having easy access to maps has given me a completely different life. When I first moved to London, I couldn't get anywhere and spent so much money on cabs because I couldn't figure it out.

You have to know where you are to know where to go.

Will, have you been paying attention to the number of times we had to go one passage farther than the first left? I've been trying to. Why? This place is really getting to me. I don't like the idea of spending the rest of my life down here. Will sighed. Relax, Sarah. Just lie down and go to sleep. Humor me and tell me how many times. Okay. Three. We've hit three dead ends. It's four, Will. I knew that. I was just checking to see if you were on your toes.

HECTOR Well, I don't mean to be drowned like a rat in a trap. I still have the will to live. What am I to do? CAPT. SHOTOVER Do? Nothing simpler. Learn your business as an Englishman. HECTOR And what may my business as an Englishman be, pray? CAPT. SHOTOVER Navigation. Learn it and live; or leave it and be damned.

And if I am further pressed to declare straightforwardly whether I mean to disparage these authorities [who criticize Ibsen], I reply, pointedly, that I do. I affirm that such criticisms are written by men who know as much of political life as I know of navigation.

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight—that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight - that, in fact, you are exploring a closed basin.