Learn To Fly Quotes

Every day you must unlearn the ways that hold you back. You must rid yourself of negativity, so you can learn to fly.

We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

It doesn’t look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit hour after hour in the cockpit of the one that American used for training, at the company school in Chicago, saying to each other, ‘My God, do you think we’ll ever learn to fly anything this big?’

Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For scientists, or Supreme Court justices, or chief executives, or the woman who wants to learn to fly F-l8s off an aircraft carrier, it works differently.

What is it in fact, this learning to fly? To be precise, it is ‘to learn NOT to fly wrong.’ To learn to become a pilot is to learn – not to let oneself fly too slowly. Not to let oneself turn without accelerating. Not to cross the controls. Not to do this, and not to do that. . . . To pilot is negation.

Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.

The USA and USSR will only agree when shrimps learn to fly.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom – a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training – but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

You don’t learn to fly if you’re not prepared to crash

You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

Take a leap of faith. You will either land somewhere new or learn to fly.

Like a young eaglet that gets pushed out of the nest at the appropriate time, a young man must learn to fly on his own. If the nest is too cushy, if all of his creature comforts are there for his enjoyment, then he may set up his high-definition television and perch for a while.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.