"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."

-- Mary Garden

#Skills Quotes #Australia Quotes #Flying Quotes

“Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.”
“A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. Thatâ€™s the power of story.”
“Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning.”

Source : Irvin D. Yalom (2012). “The Spinoza Problem: A Novel”, p.167, Basic Books
“Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.”
“Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption.”
“Look twice before you leap.”
“I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.”
“The beauty of physics lies in the extent which seemingly complex and unrelated phenomena can be explained and correlated through a high level of abstraction by a set of laws which are amazing in their simplicity.”

Source : Melvin Schwartz (2012). “Principles of Electrodynamics”, p.105, Courier Corporation

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