Richard Bach Quotes

Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.

I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls.

Sport doesn't know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance... how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how well you can hit a tennis ball.

You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are.

The blue distance, the mysterious Heavens, the example of birds and insects flying everywhere —are always beckoning Humanity to rise into the air.

More than electric lights, more than steam engines, more than telephones, more than automobiles, more even than the printing press, the airplane separated past from future. It had freed mankind from the earth and opened the skies.

No beating around the bush. Give me the guys that are next in line, the guys that deserve it, and let's go.

Business doesn't cut you any slack because of your gender. You're either good at what you do or you're not.

Any player who is in a national team is their because he deserves to be.

An award should be earned based on an actor's ability and not be just given as a present.

I live for that exhilarating moment when I'm in an airplane rushing down the runway and pull on the stick and feel lift under its wings. It's a magical feeling to climb toward the heavens, seeing objects and people on the ground grow smaller and more insignificant. You have left that world beneath you. You are inside the sky.

Flying radio-controlled airplanes [is my guiltiest pleasure]. Only God would give me a hobby where I'm looking up to the sky. It's the only time where I am able to focus and concentrate on nothing but looking up. It's a fascinating hobby.

I don't think of myself as a lesser player.

You should be judged on your performances, not how long you've been around.

What I love about the UFC, it doesn't matter if you're a girl or guy. It doesn't matter what color skin, what religion you are, where you're from, they give you the same money and they give you the same star. It's up to you where you're gonna be.

At Ajax, they don't worry about your age. If you're good enough, you play.

I don't have a gender thesis. I am truly optimizing for the right person for the task, whether that means running a company or working on my team.

I appreciate good work no matter where it's coming from.

Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.

In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.

Never exalt people because they're in your family; never exalt people because they're your color; never exalt people because they're your kinfolk. Exalt them because they're worthy.

I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.

Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.

I’m not a big fan of the class system, to be honest. It feels ugly to me. If you’ve got something to say and the work is good, it doesn’t matter where you come from

Fly! There's a lot of sky out there for brave birds.