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Quotes About Navigation

Him, haply slumbering on the Norway foam, the pilot of some small night-founded skiff, deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, with fixed anchor in his scaly rind, moors by his side under the lee, while night invests the sea, and wished morn delays.
~ John Milton
Second star to the right and straight on to morning.
~ John Ringo
sixty miles north of Bluestem, as the crow flies, or eighty miles, if the crow were driving a pickup.
~ John Sandford
She thought, Hmmm. She had an interest in the Senate, as a stepping-stone, and it was clear from early on that the main Democratic candidates would be the usual bunch of stooges, clowns, buffoons, apparatchiks, and small-town wannabees—and a witch—who couldn't have found Washington, D.C., with a Cadillac's navigation system and a Seeing Eye dog.
~ John Sandford
While landing a spacecraft on a planet via Skip Drive navigation was officially and strongly discouraged by the Colonial Union, the Colonial Defense Forces recognized the strategic value of sudden and unexpected arrivals.
~ John Scalzi
hundred klicks
~ John Scalzi
But to find where you are going, you must know where you are, and I didn't.
~ John Steinbeck
FAR 91.21 – You must determine that the iPad, as a portable electronic device, does not cause interference in the airplane's communication or navigation equipment.
~ John Zimmerman
You can't sail straight into the wind, and if you only know how to sail with the wind at your back, you will only go where the wind blows you. But if you know how to use the wind's energy and are patient, you can sometimes get where you want to go. You can still be in control
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
I grew up in a sailing family. My dad lived for sailing, and when we moved to Canada when I was a child, he really wanted us to learn.
~ Daria Werbowy
Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.
~ Antonio Machado
I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.
~ Jerzy Kosi?ski
Oh, pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.
~ Thomas Haynes Bayly
Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.
~ Horace
In a day if you don't come across any problems, you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong way.
~ Swami Vivekanand
Lost with no directions in a world with no instructions.
~ Unknown
'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
As we sail thru life, don't avoid rough waters, sail on because calm waters won't make a skillful sailor.
~ Unknown
Many roads are bad, but they still take you where you want to go.
~ Unknown
Life is like a maze, you have to go through different things to get to where you want to be.
~ Unknown
Life is a great trip, the only problem is that it doesn't come with a map. We have to search our own routes to reach our destination..
~ Unknown
On the journey of life, its okay to stop and ask for directions.
~ Unknown
Life is never an easy road. But alternative routes are always available when you feel you're lost. All you have to do is choose the right way.
~ Unknown
You cannot direct the wind but you can always adjust your sail.
~ Unknown