Quotes About Navigation

Nollie's having plotted their course with her fleX GPS turned out to be unnecessary. The directions all the way to the Nevada border at Wendover, Utah, came down to: "cross George Washington Bridge, then turn right.

Stars to light our way.

Among the fables that inspired the British Admiralty's cartographic assignments to Captain James Cook in the 1770s and Captain George Vancouver in the 1790s was a 1640 account under the name of Bartholomew de Fonte that appeared in a journal with the delightful title 'The Monthly Miscellany, or Memoirs for the Curious.'

You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers.

China believes that it has the rightful claim to a vast portion of the South China Sea, which is claimed by other countries.

I started accessible GPS research in 1994 and the first version became available on a laptop in 2000.

Sign cutting taught me that terrain determines the route the prey follows 90 percent of the time: you generally have only to follow the path of least resistance to be pretty sure of remaining on the trail of your target. Henry Loving was different. His route took him in directions that didn't seem to make sense, less direct and more difficult. But

Acquiring navigational skills causes a redistribution of gray matter in the hippocampus as a driver's mental map of London grows larger and more detailed with experience.

Make a right onto Hoover Ave., and then bear left and head back to campus up Webber Road. We'll have to double-park outside Reber Hall." We

At least in Phoenix, you can get off the main highways and take side streets to where you want to go. In L.A., you can't. You're stuck.

On one hand, to be able to go from one direction in the sky to study such an object to another direction to study another object, and on the other hand to be able to maintain accurately the position in space.

As a navigator, I started studying astronomy because sometimes you're not able to use the equipment, so you'd have to do it the old-fashioned way, figuring out what you were seeing in the sky.

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.

God is like a satellite that navigates us around our lives. He's telling us which direction to take and what turns to make. But God's directions are like the GPS in your car: You have to pay attention to them or you're going to get lost. You may have to backtrack. You may have to take a different

If everything comes your way, you are in the wrong lane.

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

Run straight ahead, And if anything gets in your way...turn

Good seamanship is recovering from an incident at sea. Great seamanship is avoiding an incident at sea.

Are you lost if you know where you're going-- just not how to get there?

The compass rose is nothing but a star with an infinite number of rays pointing in all directions. It is the one true and perfect symbol of the universe. And it is the one most accurate symbol of you . Spread your arms in an embrace, throw your head back, and prepare to receive and send coordinates of being . For, at last you know —you are the navigator, the captain, and the ship.

The difficulty in dealing with a maze or labyrinth lies not so much in navigating the convolutions to find the exit but in not entering the damn thing in the first place. Or, at least not yet again. As a creature of free will, do not be tempted into futility.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.

Remember the street car cannot turn out.