I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.
Interpretation
Face your fears or avoid risky situations that could lead to danger.
This quote by Charles Lindbergh suggests that one must either embrace challenges that inherently come with danger, such as parachute jumping, or take precautions to avoid those risks altogether, like staying away from single-motored airplanes at night. It encourages individuals to confront their fears boldly while also recognizing when to avoid unnecessary risks.
In practice
This quote can be used to motivate a friend who is considering taking on a new adventure.
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.
Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?
In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced sucess with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.
We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.
We are in grave danger of losing forever not just millions of years of evolution on earth, but the eons of change that have produced man and his natural environment.
The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food or charge to these fears or become attached to them. We donβt even have to shame ourselves for having these fears. Simply ask your fears, βWhat are you trying to teach me?β Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for βFalse Evidence Appearing Real.β From Everything Belongs, p. 143
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.
There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.
The wheelchair and the prosthesis give me a soapbox to stand on. If it helps me get my message across, I'm glad; then we need to talk about what we need to do for this country.
[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.
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