Quotes About Navigation

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

I can't control the waves of the ocean, but I can learn how to navigate my ship.

Either plan your life or get ready to get lost.

We can't calm waves, but we can steer the ship.

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

There's only one thing to do with politics, and that is to survive it.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

Stay the course. Don't tell me about the storms just bring the ship home and dock it.

God built lighthouses to see people through storms. Then he built storms to remind people to find lighthouses.

Door mijn voetstappen te tellen (...), is het me toch gelukt zonder kompas weer thuis te komen. is dat geen succes? Is dit niet het succes waarop mijn hele leven mij heeft voorbereid?

Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!

seen as soon as the reefs, from a ship's mast

And although it may be hard to think about larger issues while you are in the immediate turmoil of a transition, you must finally deal with them if you are to understand not only what is happening, but why, when, and how it is happening. In other words, I am not telling you to stop bailing - just to cast an eye over the map and think about where your little boat is heading.

He who, from zone to zone,Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,In the long way that I must tread alone,Will lead my steps aright.

The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

As a general rule, the Chinese seldom ventured west of Sri Lanka, the Indians north of the Red Sea mouth, and the Italians south of Alexandria. It was left to the Greeks, who ranged freely from India to Italy, to carry the greatest share of the traffic.

We have this morning dropped anchor, just off Williamstown.

If the line is 50 ft long and it takes 10 seconds to tow it, your boat speed is 0.6 times 50 divided by 10, or 3.0 kts.

V: You were everything to me, Stanley. Everything. S: You still love me? V: It's like a big stone in the road. S: And all those others? V: You know the way a bat bounces sounds off objects to find out where it is?

If two direction-finders take bearings like that on a signal and a control center draws the lines of direction on a map, the point at which they cross marks the position of the transmitter.

point your nose—rather than just swivel your eyes—in the direction that you want to go. For whatever physical or psychological reasons, the act of turning your head helps aim the motorcycle in that direction.