Quotes About Navigation

I've got a very poor sense of direction. I keep forgetting which way is forwards.

I'd go to the end of the world for my husband. Of course, if he'd just stop and ask directions, I wouldn't have to.

They had passed a lift junction, but it wasn't big enough for all of them at once and Wilken sensibly refused to split the group.

Now that I knew where we were going, it was a lot easier to get there

Si le pasaba algo al transporte, tendrían que volver a pata. Y nadarían, ya que había una masa de agua del tamaño de un océano entre esos dos puntos del mapa.

There are not many road signs in Russia, you know. He laughed. If you don't know where the road goes, you shouldn't be on it.

that prudence of yours makes you veer about, determined not to commit yourself to either side, but to pass safely between Scylla and Charybdis; with the result that, finding yourself battered and buffeted by the waves in the midst of the sea, you assert everything you deny and deny everything you assert.

Navigation, you see, is not just a problem for sailors. Everyone must go adventuring sooner or later, yet finding one's way home is not easy. Just like the North Star and all its whirling, starry brethren, a person's idea of where 'home' is remains in perpetual motion, one's whole life long. Home was more than a house, even if the house was very grand.

It is also about keeping in mind what is and what is not under our control, focusing our efforts on the former and not wasting them on the latter. It is about practicing virtue and excellence and navigating the world to the best of our abilities, while being mindful of the moral dimension of all our actions.

She knew that everything humans see is a simplification. A human sees the world in three dimensions. That is a simplification. Humans are fundamentally limited, generalising creatures, living on auto-pilot, who straighten out curved streets in their minds, which explains why they get lost all the time.

Movement isn't progress if we are heading in the wrong direction

She knew that everything humans see is a simplification. A human sees the world in three dimensions. That is simplification. Humans are fundamentally limited, generalising creatures, living on auto-pilot, who straighten curved streets in their minds, which explains why they get lost all the time.

She knew that everything humans see is a simplification. A human sees the world in three dimensions. That is a simplification. Humans are fundamentally limited, generalizing creatures, living on auto-pilot, who straighten out curved streets in their minds, which explains why they get lost all the time.

The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides.

When in doubt, head into the wind.

taking a roundabout route in an effort to disorient the Amorite.

to the North

The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink!

Use the rows, otherwise you either go nowhere or you are drifted to somewhere unwanted!

Damn it all. A perfect exit ruined by her crappy sense of direction.

these engineers turned the real world into a video game and navigated the car through it.

Um cego semelha uma ilha: navegante à espera de viagem, um silêncio frente ao espelho.

under the same cross that Christopher Columbus's three caravels crossed the Atlantic to the New World.

I propose going up the Delaware, In order to be nearer this place than I should be by taking The course of the Chesapeake which I once intended."1 — William Howe, July 16, 1777