Navigational Skills Quotes

The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

Walking is easy ... but it requires faith to find the right path.

Every sailor knows that you can't sail a ship that isn't moving forward, strong leaders understand that to change direction, you first have to create forward progress.

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.

Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls.

The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

Anyone can steer a ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head

I have an incredible sense of direction, but London is confusing. It's a circle, but then it stops being a circle.

He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.

Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.

I'm working on a speed boat at the moment. Much more exciting. It'll really kick ass, give great photographs for the people in Bible.

I have an excellent internal compass.

It's right to trust in God; but, if you don't stand to your halliards your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be blown out of the bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike.