Michael Parfit famous quotes

Can the magic of flight ever be carried by words? I think not.
-- Michael Parfit

#Thinking #Magic #Aviation

Watersheds come in families; nested levels of intimacy... As you work upstream toward home, you're more closely related. The big river is like your nation, a little out of hand. The lake is your cousin. The creek is your sister. The pond is her child. And, for better or worse, in sickness and in health, you're married to your sink.
-- Michael Parfit

#Cousin #Children #Home

Pilots track their lives by the number of hours in the air, as if any other kind of time isn't worth noting.
-- Michael Parfit

#Air #Numbers #Track

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

That's when the magic happens- when everyone else is asleep and you're awake thinking about the world as it is, and the world as it could be. Make the most of those moments.

There's a little bit of magic in every box!

I'm fanatical about movies: African, European, Viking, Roman. I got into witchcraft and magic from watching 'Bewitched' and 'The Wizard of Oz,' which shows in some of my outfits. I dress to reflect the whole spectrum of the universe.

The table was her stage. The mobile phone was the microphone. And the new moon was the spotlight. That kind of magic only Nana could make it happen.

The J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.