Top 30 Sullenberger Quotes

#1. The economic tsunami has hit all airline employees. With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules - we're all working harder and longer than we used to.

Chesley Sullenberger

#2. Some people make a great film and then they can't follow up.

Woody Harrelson

#3. That's what we're trained to do.

Chesley Sullenberger

#4. I think it's become an economic necessity for people to be able to learn and grow throughout their lives, because most people can't get through their entire career with one skill set. We have to keep reinventing ourselves.

Chesley Sullenberger

#5. One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.

Chesley Sullenberger

#6. Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

Chesley Sullenberger

#7. On January 15, I was traveling with four library books, including a copy of Just Culture, a book about safety issues. I later called my local library to apologize for leaving the books on the plane, and they agreed not to charge me for replacing them.

Chesley B. Sullenberger, III

#8. You have risen from the ashes before. The only way to survive, " he said, "is to believe you always will.

Samantha Shannon

#9. People really are our most important resource, and people who don't realize that and choose not to live that way, choose not to lead that way, are paying a price for that in many of our companies, many of our organizations.

Chesley Sullenberger

#10. If you're just going to be like everyone else, why are you even doing this? If you merely replicate competitors, there's no point for your existence. Even if you wind up losing, it's better to go down fighting for what you believe in instead of just imitating others.

Jason Fried

#11. There's a sense of fiction in every video game. It creates a world for itself that you want to obey.

Tom Bissell

#12. My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

Chesley Sullenberger

#13. To sit down so often with nothing to say,-to say something so often, almost without consciousness of saying and without any remembrance or having said,-is a power of which I will not violate my modesty by boasting; but I do not believe everyone has it.

Michael Kelahan

#14. We have made flying so cheap, I'm afraid we are going to make it cheap at any cost.

Chesley Sullenberger

#15. Poverty is a scourge and must be dealt with surge.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#16. I'm totally anti-commercialism.

David Fincher

#17. I'd rather be a few pounds heavier and enjoy life than be worried all the time.

Drew Barrymore

#18. Every day we wake up, we have an opportunity to do some good, but there's so much bad that you have to navigate to get to the good.

Chesley Sullenberger

#19. The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

Jon Meacham

#20. It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.

Chesley Sullenberger

#21. There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

Chesley Sullenberger

#22. in order to win a battle it might sometimes be necessary to lose it

Jose Saramago

#23. I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives.

Chesley Sullenberger

#24. Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

Anais Nin

#25. My message going forward is that I want to remind everyone in the aviation industry - especially those who manage aviation companies and those who regulate aviation - that we owe it to our passengers to keep learning how to do it better.

Chesley Sullenberger

#26. Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

Barney Frank

#27. When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.

Iain Duncan Smith

#28. There are these creative shows, all on cable, that are just so daring and out there. That's the stuff I really want to be a part of, like with 'Sucker Punch' and 'Hangover 2.' Those movies didn't hold back. They really went for it.

Jamie Chung

#29. The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.

Warren Farrell

#30. You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.

Chesley Sullenberger

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