Izabella Scorupco Quotes

I learned the mechanics of how to fly a plane, but I never lifted a plane off the ground.

I liked flying, when I got into it, loved it. And I found I was very good at it. I'm not modest about the fact that I was a good pilot.

I'm very involved with learning to be self-sufficient.

I never take it as any real pressure. It's like my son. I only gave him one lesson. When I went to give him the second one he said, 'Oh, I can do that dad.' I said, 'Now you're on your own.'

It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.

Baby eagles can never soar under their family's wing.

Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

Really, anyone can learn how to fly. If you can drive a bus, you can fly an airplane.

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Through the misguided notion that writing about flying was easy, I had McCone become a pilot. When I learned that research in books wasn't enough, I forced myself to take lessons.

The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Let's take flight simulation as an example. If you're trying to train a pilot, you can simulate almost the whole course. You don't have to get in an airplane until late in the process.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

I can't be left unsupervised.

When I was on the ice, I felt like a free man. With flying, it's the same thing. When I'm flying by myself on an afternoon, I feel free.

Flying my own small plane is my escape. I learnt to fly in 2006 and share ownership of a Socata TB10.

It's important to let children fly on their own. I understood that they needed to create their own life and not be my shadow. Let them make their own decisions, and support them along the way.

I don't have a coach. I haven't had a coach for, like, years.

Coming to the Waratahs was the first time I felt I gained some independence. I was telling my parents I had to go out on my own, and learn and grow, and if I made mistakes, then so be it.

To me, authority is something that a freer spirit, a more independent mind, and a person who can handle the world, doesn't need guidance from.