Best Navigation Quotes
76 Navigation quotes by 68 unique authors
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The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
— Thomas Reid
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Clear content, simple navigation and answers to customer questions have the biggest impact on business value. Advanced technology matters much less.
— Jakob Nielsen
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Aside from its importance to many branches of science, a knowledge of the oceans has a practical value for mankind. The intelligent development of our…
— Paul J. H. Schoemaker
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No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as…
— Muhammad Yunus
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A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never…
— Henry David Thoreau
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We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.
— Thor Heyerdahl
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How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?
— Christopher Fry
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Direct navigation traffic is by far the most highly targeted form of web traffic available.
— Marc Ostrofsky
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Many people bypass search engines altogether and still find what they're looking for online. These Internet surfers are using direct navigation.
— Marc Ostrofsky
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Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the navigation of space,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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But although we have noticed the ark as being the first ship, we cannot with propriety place it in the front of the history of…
— R. M. Ballantyne
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Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw…
— Billy Campbell
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Flying solo, you have a fair workload. I'm not only flying the balloon but doing the navigation, communications, repairing the burners, taking care of the…
— Steve Fossett
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...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of…
— Francis Bacon
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Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.
— Todd Gitlin
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If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car…
— Ken Jennings
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The budget acknowledges the importance of maintaining our ports and waterways to encourage commercial deep-draft navigation and economic competitiveness.
— Jeff Landry
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In an automobile, if you think about the navigation system - of all the cars in the world, four out of five cars in the…
— Stephen Elop
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What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.
— Robert Herrick
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Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor…
— Plutarch
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I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period of strain and…
— William Irwin Thompson
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As we battle the high price of fuel, cost efficiency will continue to be a top priority not only for airlines but for every partner…
— Giovanni Bisignani
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The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage,…
— Maria Mitchell
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68 authors contributed a total of 76 Navigation Quotes, led by these top contributors: