Quotes About Navigation

I have never been lost but I was bewildered once for three days.

Daniel Boone, when asked if he ever got lost out in the wilderness, replied, "I can't say I was ever lost, but I was once bewildered for about 3 days.

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks." -

I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. — Daniel Boone

High-purpose environments are filled with small, vivid signals designed to create a link between the present moment and a future ideal. They provide the two simple locators that every navigation process requires: Here is where we are and Here is where we want to

High-purpose environments are filled with small, vivid signals designed to create a link between the present moment and a future ideal. They provide the two simple locators that every navigation process requires: Here is where we are and Here is where we want to go. The surprising thing, from a scientific point of view, is how responsive we are to this pattern of signaling.

We spent four days filming in a helicopter. I had never seen London from that viewpoint - you get a sense of how big it is and how easy it is to get lost. There was one day when we couldn't find Brick Lane: we spent 25 minutes looking and then realised it was directly below us.

On the whole, GPS is fine but you still need maps because the information available can be different to what's on the ground. You need to be vigilant for obstacles.

Ease of navigation is important in both physical and virtual space.

New York City is one of the best cities in the world for walking: it's virtually impossible to get lost.

And so it begins, at last. Charlotte doesn't leave this time. Instead, she stays in therapy until she learns to drive her own car, navigating her way through the world more safely, looking both ways, making many wrong turns but finding her way back, always, to where she truly wants to go.

Users need to be able to find content before they can use it — findability precedes usability.

Maps gave them control over their surroundings, for the first time ever. It showed how to get from one place to another. It sounds simple now, but a thousand years ago it would have been an incredible feat of imagination and imagery. All maps are drawn as though looking down. From a bird's point of view. From their god's point of view. Imagine being the first person to think of that. To be able to wrap their minds around a perspective they'd never seen. And then draw it.

Like a ship changing course. It might take a while to get to port, but at least it was going in the right direction.

True Québécois walked in the middle of the road.

Even Google Maps doesn't have it," said Huifen. "And the GPS thinks we parked in the middle of the forest." "The middle of nowhere," said Jacques. "It's still recalculating," said Nathaniel. "She seemed quite concerned for us.

A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent.

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

The children could see their own roof, weighted down by stones, peeping over the edge of the hill long before they were anywhere near it, and they fastened their homesick eyes upon it as a sailor fixes his upon the North Star at sea.

I didn't know why it's called getting lost. even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turns to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected

She pictured how it would feel to trust your instincts in a strange land, to know the difference between where you had been and where you were going.

Ships and sails proper for the heavely air should be fashioned. Johannes Kepler to Galileo 1609

anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Leaders who are good navigators are capable of taking their people just about anywhere.

When I'm swimming with the tide, my progress has little to do with the speed and strength of my strokes. It is determined by how fast the tide is moving. Swim with it and you make fast progress. Swim against it and you move very slowly, no matter how hard you work at it.