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Having a plan enabled us to keep our hope alive. Perhaps in a similar fashion, people who are in their own personal crises - a pink slip, a foreclosure - can be reminded that no matter how dire the circumstance, or how little time you have to deal with it, further action is always possible. There's always a way out of even the tightest spot.
- Chesley Sullenberger
#Action
#Alive
#Fashion
#Hope
#Time
I had never been so challenged in an airplane that I doubted the outcome.
- Chesley Sullenberger
#Airplane
#Been
#Doubted
#Never
#Outcome
I went from living my life anonymously for 58 years to being a public figure known globally in a matter of minutes.
- Chesley Sullenberger
#Being
#Life
#Living
#Matter
#My Life
In the bad old days, captains were not good leaders. They didn't build teams; they were arrogant and autocratic.
- Chesley Sullenberger
#Bad
#Build
#Days
#Good
#Old Days
Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation.
- Chesley Sullenberger
#Aviation
#Far
#Medical
#System
#Within
When I testified before Congress after the Hudson River landing, Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota said, 'Safety begins in the boardroom.' That's as true in medicine as it is in aviation. It always boils down to leadership.
- Chesley Sullenberger
#Down
#Leadership
#Medicine
#River
#True
Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.
- Chesley Sullenberger
#Better
#Found
#Generation
#Leave
#Will
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
#Loss
#Pay
#Rules
#Terror
#Work
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
#Deserve
#Important
#Know
#Money
#People
It's almost an out of body experience to see things that First Officer Jeff Skiles and I said in the cockpit together, played by actors.
- Chesley Sullenberger
#Body
#Experience
#See
#Things
#Together
I took my first flying lesson in 1967, when I was 16. By October 1968, I had 70 hours in the air and got my pilot's license.
- Chesley Sullenberger
#Air
#First
#Flying
#Lesson
#Pilot
It's an important job to be the public face of something that gives people hope, and I take that seriously.
- Chesley Sullenberger
#Face
#Hope
#Important
#People
#Seriously
I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives.
- Chesley Sullenberger
#Children
#Half
#Lives
#Missed
Pilots learn to use human skills to communicate information and make decisions collectively, which creates a shared sense of responsibility among the team for better outcomes.
- Chesley Sullenberger
#Better
#Information
#Responsibility
I'm less shy now than I was as a kid. After Flight 1549, my family and I had to become public figures and more complete versions of ourselves. I had to teach myself to become an effective public speaker.
- Chesley Sullenberger
#Family
#Flight
#More
#Myself
#Shy
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
#Children
#Learning
#Myself
#Never
#Teach
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
#Better
#Everyone
#Keep
#Learning
#Want
My wife Lorrie actually looked in the dictionary to see what the definition was of heroism because it had been used so much. She found at least one definition is someone who chooses to put themselves at risk to save another.
- Chesley Sullenberger
#Dictionary
#Heroism
#See
#She
#Wife
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
#Curiosity
#Her
#Learning
#Love
#Teacher
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
#Grow
#Keep
#People
#Skill
#Through
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
#Important
#Live
#People
#Price
#Way
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
#Bad
#Day
#Every Day
#Good
#Opportunity
It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.
- Chesley Sullenberger
#Amazing
#Get
#Learn
#Used
#You
There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.
- Chesley Sullenberger
#Aviation
#Experience
#Safety
#Simply
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