“In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.” WorldHumansYoungDangerousSkillsLimitsEnglandFlyingFlightAustraliaAviationPushingEndurancePilots1930sMilitary Aviation Author:Mary Garden
“You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too much technical ease the brain stops criticizing. Don't let the hand fall into a smart way of putting the mind to sleep.” WayMindHandsArtistFallSleepBrainToo MuchDangerousDangerSkillsSmartEaseGiantsCriticizeFacilityDangerous Things Author:John French Sloan
“Unless a man has considerable skill with and reliance in his weapon, he will not remain cool in the presence of dangerous game close by.” MenGamesDangerousSkillsWeaponsReliance Author:Townsend Whelen
“There is a clear acknowledgement all over the world that we should not teach people to read and then to leave them without literature. For they would then relapse into a dreary and ultimately dangerous state of half-education, in which they would be easily satisfied by crude semi-pictorial approximations of the strip cartoon and by the abundant supply of degenerate literature which destroys, rather than promotes, a capacity to face the problems of the world with skill and courage” PeopleWorldShouldStatesProblemWould BeFacesLiteratureHalfTeachClearDangerousSkillsCapacitySatisfiedCartoonCrudeDegeneratesDrearyAcknowledgementApproximationPictorialRelapse Author:A. D. Patel
“Instead of it being the mark of a real man that you can shoot somebody at 50 feet and kill them with a gun, the mark of a real man is that you would never do anything like that. . . . The gun is a great equalizer because it makes wimps as dangerous as people who really have skill and bravery and so I'd like to have this notion that anyone using a gun is a wuss. They aren't anybody to be looked up to. They're somebody to look down at because they couldn't defend themselves or couldn't protect others without using a gun.” PeopleMenLooksRealFeetDangerousProtectSkillsGunMarkBraveryNotionReal MenEqualizerWimps Author:David Hemenway
“How do we create jobs for so many Americans who are feeling pushed out, not just left out, pushed out of the modern economy. Obviously it's skills and education. But it's also jobs. So if I could do anything it would be to take this moment in time that we've got when, yes, our recovery is better, we've had steadier growth, I don't think President [Barack] Obama frankly gets the credit he deserves for the kind of steady hand that he and his advisers apply to moving through that really dangerous period.” IfsThinkingKindMomentsFeelingsHandsWould BeJobsMovingLeftGrowthPresidentEconomyModernDangerousPeriodsSkillsDeserveCreditRecoveryBarackIf I CouldSteadyPresident Barack ObamaMoments In TimeLeft OutAdviserSteady Hands Author:Hillary Clinton