What is another word for steer a course?

Pronunciation: [stˈi͡əɹ ɐ kˈɔːs] (IPA)

"Steer a course" is an idiom that refers to the act of guiding or directing something towards a specific destination or goal. Synonyms for this phrase include "navigate," "pilot," "direct," "guidance," "lead," "herd," "guide," "control," "command," "drive," and "maneuver." Each of these words carries its own shade of meaning, but all suggest an active role in moving or controlling something towards a particular outcome. "Steer a course" is often used in a nautical context, but can also apply to any situation where careful guidance is required, such as in business, politics, or personal relationships.

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Famous quotes with Steer a course

  • [I]f neuroses were swimming pools one might, like Cheever's swimmer, steer a course from my house to the city limits and never touch dry land.
    Michael Chabon
  • England rose before our eyes; the island girdled by the stormy waters in which all the continents of the globe are laved. In that sea-girt isle, the ocean holds sway. The cold and clear gaze of the watery element is reflected in the eyes of the inhabitants. Every one of the dwellers in that land is one of the sea-folk, is himself an island. The storms and dangers of the sea have left their mark, and live on to-day in these English, whose ancestors for centuries were vikings and sea-raiders. Now peace broods over the isle. But the dwellers therein, used to storms, crave for the lie of the sea with its daily perils. When it is denied them, they create its stormy likeness for themselves in blood-sports. They build wooden lists for beast-baiting. The voluptuous horror of the spectators is stimulated in bestial fashion by watching cock-fights or by looking on while bears are torn by dogs. Soon here is a demand for a loftier tension of the senses, such as can be derived from the spectacle of heroic human conflicts. Thus there grows out of the medieval religious mysteries, the great drama of human effort, in which the adventures and the voyages of earlier days are depicted - voyages no longer sailed on a real sea, but on the inner sea of man's feelings. A new infinity, another ocean with spring tides of passion and an uprush of the spirit; a determination to steer a course through the waters on which heretofore they were driven at the mercy of winds and waves - such are the new longings of the late-born and vigorous Anglo-Saxon race. Such is the origin of the Elizabethan drama.
    Stefan Zweig

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