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  • Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent. -- Todd Gitlin
  • The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. -- Thomas Reid
  • History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. -- David McCullough
  • 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
  • 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 in the parking lot every single time. -- Ken Jennings
  • More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media. -- Michael K. Powell
  • Navigation is easy. If it wasn't, they wouldn't be able to teach it -- James Lawrence
  • I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization. -- George Cayley
  • I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization. (1804) -- George Cayley
  • One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation') -- Anne Tyler
  • Navigation is about wayfinding, you can't treat it as separate because many other things run parallel with it. If you look at studies in wayfinding, everything from exhibit design to building the cathedrals, it's about creating a complete system. It's about looking at the whole. -- Clement Mok
  • We come to God by love and not by navigation. -- Saint Augustine
  • The bottom line is, winter navigation on the Seaway is a bad idea. -- John M. McHugh
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  • Direct navigation traffic is by far the most highly targeted form of web traffic available. -- Marc Ostrofsky
  • We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation. -- Clyde Tombaugh
  • What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before. -- Robert Herrick
  • Freedom of navigation through international waterways is critical to the international community and to nations in the region, including Iran. -- John C. Stennis
  • Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean. -- Dionysius Lardner
  • 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 equipment. -- Steve Fossett
  • He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation. -- Norman Douglas
  • I've been in navigation systems, robotics, restaurants, communications systems, touch screens, and now I'm back in games. I like to say I have five-year A.D.D. -- Nolan Bushnell
  • 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 cause any waves? -- Plutarch
  • I have studied humans for a small eternity. Intent infuses their every movement. Road maps to their inner navigation, plastered all over their skin. Born to be slaves. -- Karen Marie Moning
  • 3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before. -- Bill Gates
  • The value of the television network is partly tradition, serving as a navigation device and as a brand. Research shows that people do know and understand ABC as a brand, like Disney. -- Anne Sweeney
  • We are not pursuing research to develop ABM space systems. There are studies to improve systems of warning against a missile attack, communications and navigation systems and to develop ground-based ABM defences. -- Sergey Akhromeyev
  • A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation. -- Maria Mitchell
  • 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, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation. -- Maria Mitchell
  • In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi River. Yes, there is commercial navigation on it, and there will be tomorrow. -- Ron Kind
  • 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 in the value chain including airports and air navigation service providers. -- Giovanni Bisignani
  • It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition. -- Frank Black
  • You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers. -- John H. Reagan
  • You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers. -- John H. Reagan
  • 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 pain and contradiction, so more than ever, we need to have an internal sense of navigation. -- William Irwin Thompson
  • In direct navigation, users type exactly what they are looking for in the browser's web address field. This could be the exact domain name or web address. Millions of people do this, emphasizing the need for on- and off-line marketing and branding. -- Marc Ostrofsky
  • The idea that a robot will become more aware of its environment, that telling it to 'go to the kitchen' means something - navigation and understanding of the environment is a robot problem. Those are the technological frontiers of the robotics industry. -- Colin Angle
  • Thanks to the unprecedented reach of British navigation, London in the early 18th century was not just the emporium of the world, it was the first place in which it was possible to assemble artifacts from around the world and allow people to study them. -- Neil MacGregor
  • Our old site did not have very good support for the disabled, but our new site should soon have much better support. With all of our content in divs now, we can hide all but the relevant chunks of content and navigation with a simple alternate CSS file. -- Mike Davidson
  • 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 recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking. -- Billy Campbell
  • I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat. And I built a boat. I had a boat built for me, I mean, and my second day out to sea I realized that (a) I'm not a sailor, and (b) I have no knowledge of basic navigation. -- Will Ferrell
  • I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine. (12 May 1780) -- John Adams
  • In an automobile, if you think about the navigation system - of all the cars in the world, four out of five cars in the world if they have a navigation system have something from Nokia inside that car - the data, the platform, something. So we play a very strong role there. -- Stephen Elop
  • Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots - who provide specialized local navigation - when they approach a port, but in the canal, a Suez crew is also obligatory. The crew members are there in case the ship needs to be moored during the canal transit, but this rarely happens. -- Rose George
  • They said that the Negro had no initiative; that he was not a business man, but a laborer; that he had not the brain to engineer a corporation, to own and run ships; that he had no knowledge of navigation, therefore the proposition was impossible. Oh! ye of little faith. The Eternal has happened. -- Marcus Garvey
  • Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my father's position, if you will. But in the air, I had no name; to the Federal Aviation Agency I was simply Comanche Nine-Nine POP. The quality of my landings, navigation and judgment were mine alone. -- John Eisenhower
  • I know the stars are my home. I learned about them, needed them for survival in terms of navigation. I know where I am when I look up at the sky. I know where I am when I look up at the Moon; it's not just some abstract romantic idea, it's something very real to me. See, I've expanded my home. -- Gene Cernan
  • How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder? -- Christopher Fry
  • We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air. -- Tony Abbott
  • Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down. -- James H. Boren
  • It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore. -- Carol Bly
  • The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims. -- Joyce Cary
  • The budget acknowledges the importance of maintaining our ports and waterways to encourage commercial deep-draft navigation and economic competitiveness. -- Jeff Landry
  • Many people bypass search engines altogether and still find what they're looking for online. These Internet surfers are using direct navigation. -- Marc Ostrofsky
  • The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Clear content, simple navigation and answers to customer questions have the biggest impact on business value. Advanced technology matters much less. -- Jakob Nielsen
  • Content will become more important than navigation. Content is the 'there' of navigation. It is the reason people go on the Net. -- Jake Winebaum
  • America is the one that leads the effort to make sure the freedom of navigation in the South China Sea is protected. -- John F. Kerry
  • The Persian Gulf is our lifeline ... We will respect international navigation, for us, freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf is a must. -- Mohammad Javad Zarif
  • Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design. -- Jesse James Garrett
  • 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 equipment." -- Steve Fossett
  • 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 no definition at all. -- Muhammad Yunus
  • I'm really looking at questions of power, navigation, and spin. Then I am also looking for real-world stories that give me greater insight into smart and new ways of thinking. -- Noreena Hertz
  • The original specifications for Apollo navigation called for the ability to fly a complete mission, including a lunar landing, with no help from Earth - none, not even voice communications. -- Henry Spencer
  • To dismiss basic contexts such as link colours, page layouts, navigation systems, and visual hierarchy as 'boring' or 'pedestrian' is akin to laughing at a car's steering wheel as unimaginative. -- Jeffrey Veen
  • 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 been out of sight of land. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding. -- Gian-Carlo Rota
  • Those interested in celestial navigation are advised to first obtain a rudimentary knowledge of integral calculus, phlebotomy, astral physics and related subjects. The use of liquor is strictly forbidden on interplanetary flights. -- Henry Miller
  • When walking alone in a jungle of true darkness, there are three things that can show you the way: instinct to survive, the knowledge of navigation, creative imagination. Without them, you are lost. -- Toba Beta
  • Financial planning is like navigation. If you know where you are and where you want to go, navigation isn't such a great problem. It's when you don't know the two points that it's difficult. -- Venita VanCaspel
  • The United States is committed to a regional order rooted in international rules and norms, including freedom of navigation, and the peaceful resolution of disputes. That's the only way to ensure our common security. -- Barack Obama
  • On the technical side, Apollo 8 was mainly a test flight for the Saturn V and the Apollo spacecraft. The main spacecraft system that needed testing on a real lunar flight was the onboard navigation system. -- Henry Spencer
  • The journey of success requires a map for effective navigation. Establish a destination by defining what you want. Once you have a destination, take physical action by making choices that move you towards that destination. -- Steve Maraboli
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