Some quotes on grief
Dale“Grief, I think, is not something you get over. I think, instead it’s something you travel through. And now I’ve travelled to the other side, I won’t forget the journey.”…
“If everyone rode a motorbike before they drove a car we would lower the road toll.”
“The late Phil Irving, great engineer, wrote a wonderful, typical sort of Irving theory, he said if everyone rode a motorbike before they drove a car we would lower the…
“If you are going to make a speech …
Stand up so you can be seen. Speak up so you can be heard, and Shut up so you can be appreciated.” - Ian Menzies. (source: via Sydney Institute Podcast…
“It takes an awful lot of work for the surgeon to kill you but
the anaesthetist can do it like that (snaps fingers)" When the sit hits the fan in anaesthesia, there’s usually an awful lot of shit and the fan is spinning very…
“Maybe one person can’t change the world ….
But one person can give it a nudge, and sometimes that’s enough.” (Cartoon courtesy of Adrian Raeside, of “The Other Coast”)
thrill the ignorant
'Any pilot given the task of providing a display for the public should set out to thrill the ignorant, impress the knowledgeable, and frighten no one.’ - Squadron Leader Ian…
Sam Newman’s Rules of Living
From the Steve Price / Sam Newman Radio Show, 19th April 2011 You can’t be too thin or too rich. Particularly if you’re a woman. You are what you…
Kindness reverberates
Each small act of kindness reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of the good echo, because…
… you do not have the outcome of death to motivate your reactions.
From Issue 77, Nov-Dec 2010, Flight Safety Australia magazine; in an article discussing the use of Flight Simulators … Other instructors say the pause button on a simulator can be…
The Tombstone Imperative
There is a term in aviation safety, called “The Tombstone Imperative”. Yes, it’s a bit of gallows humour. The term means that a fault or flaw will not be fixed…