More wisdom from Chuck Yeager:
- Rules are made for people who aren’t willing to make up their own.
- You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.
- Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing.
- What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn’t help anything. You better try and figure out what’s happening and correct it.
- The best pilots fly more than the others; that’s why they’re the best. Experience is everything. The eagerness to learn how and why every piece of equipment works is everything. And luck is everything, too.
- 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.
- Everybody that I’ve ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it.
- Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don’t do, you don’t believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.
- At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.
- Never wait for trouble.
- The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.
