Quotes About Navigation

I needed to bring my own gifts to my new home, not resist them, not sway to and fro like the tidal waters of the lagoon, but rather chart my own course through the shallows like an experienced boatman.

Love is like the North Star. In a changing world, it's always constant.

Everyone can navigate in fine weather.

The good seaman is known in bad weather.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.

New York's a pretty big town. You might take a wrong turn and get lost." "You know," she'd said sweetly, "you might take a hint and do the same.

If you can find your North Star," he'd say, "you can find your whole universe.

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel

There is only one sensible way to think of the Pacific Ocean today. It is the highway between Asia and America, and whether we with it or not, from now on there will be immense traffic along that highway.

Where is Winesooth?" she had asked Wiktor, and he had said rather sharply: "On the map, where else?" "But where on the map? Clearly, it's not on mine." "It's got to be," he snapped, grabbing the map from her, then jabbing at it with his finger. "Right there, where it should be." "But that says Lancut," she protested, and when Wiktor looked again at the map he repeated: "It's right here, where I said.

The world right now is filled with fog. Honesty is a beacon. Your honesty—saying no to the lying—is what will bring the lost ships home. It's what will bring health, love, and money to you.

For nearly three hundred years, the Spanish calendar for the Philippines had been one day ahead of the Spanish calendar, because Magellan's expedition had not, of course, adjusted for their westward travel halfway around the globe.

The earth's round, like an orange, but this map is like its skin, cut off in ovals, north to south, laid flat and stretched a bit at the top and bottom. A Dutchman called Mercator invented the way to do this accurately twenty years ago. It's the first accurate world map.

The driver drove by roadway Braille

It's a skill to navigate uncertainty.

My least favorite word is 'Bank' because it's the worst underground station in London. It's terrible. I get lost in it all the time; like a labyrinth, and you just can't find your way out.

We all fall into biological and mental habits. It's an easy way for us to navigate day-to-day work and life, but it also doesn't do us any favours in terms of growing into wisdom, growing into a greater understanding of each other, growing into a deeper relationship - all the things that we really crave.

One who is lost cannot show others the way.

Water has no hands, but carries great ships.Air has no shoulders, but carries large planes.The Sun has no eyes, but finds its way around the universe.

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through.

For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.

Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.

All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them