Quotes About Navigation

It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

I've known the anxiety of being completely lost, flying at night. It can be extreme. You're travelling at close to five hundred miles an hour, and every minute that goes by takes you further into being lost unless you get help from ground radar somewhere or somehow figure out the error.

Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

GPS has saved countless relationships because us men do not like to ask for directions. Now if women could only come with relationship GPS we would be one step closer to world peace.

The storm only comes to teach you how to skillfully sail your ship.

A sailor is not defined as much by how many seas he has sailed than by how many storms he has overcome.

When the sails are strong a ship has no reason to fear turbulence.

You don't throw a compass overboard because the ocean is calm.

Indeed, follow your star if you want to head north and it's the North Star. But if you want to head north and it's Mars, you had better follow somebody else's star.

When you're staring at your phone to navigate and being led places, you do become less aware of your environment, and the journey becomes kind of automated. There is an aliveness that comes with having to puzzle out directions for yourself. And you have to ask other people for help, which creates opportunity for social connection.

It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.

Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn't lose focus. That made the difference.

A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.

I have just been the man in the middle, trying to make sure that we steer the right course.

Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

In a way, Strandbeests have turned into migration animals, and the step counter gives them an idea of where they are. While counting their steps, they know more or less where they are between Kijkduin and Scheveningen.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Agriculture, manufactures, commerce and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.

Agriculture, manufacturers, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.