“For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to walk, you're some place that's already interesting. You're not just between places. Things are happening.” TwoWalksInterestingCarHappeningsZoneAirplaneLimboDead Zone Author:Rebecca Solnit
“If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.” IfsUseNextWalksAirplaneNext DayOutstandingLanding Author:Chuck Yeager
“With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is our fault. But we didn't kill Russian civilians by shooting down a civilian airplane. We didn't attempt to conquer an adjacent country to ours. We didn't walk out on negotiations and refuse to give a date for when we would resume.” GivingWarCountryWalksColdRelationUnionsFaultsRefuseConquerShootingSovietAirplaneCold WarSoviet UnionNegotiationStrainCiviliansResumesInference Author:Ronald Reagan
“No one in his right mind would walk into the cockpit of an airplane and try to fly it, or into an operating theater and open a belly. And yet they think nothing of managing their retirement assets. I've done all three, and I'm here to tell you that managing money is, in its most critical elements even more demanding than the first two.” ThinkingTryingMindFirstsTwoDoneThreeWalksElementsTheaterInvestingCriticalRetirementAssetsAirplaneBellyCockpit Author:William J. Bernstein