This quote is from ASU coach Bob Bowman, talking about Michael Phelps and everyday excellence. The most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 22 medals, Phelps didn’t miss a day of Bob’s training in 6 years. (Interview in Livehhappy magazine, June 2015. Photo London 2012 Olympic butterfly, CC BY-SA 3.0 Madchester)
Tag: perpetual pursuit
NASA Science Pilot Tries Something Every Flight
“I have not flown a flight in my whole career where I didn’t at least try to learn something. You have to in this industry. There’s too much on the line.” ~ Stuart Broce, former USN F-14 pilot, now NASA ER-2 science pilot. Click on the picture to see some cool video from Flying magazine of him flying the civilian …
Will Smith on the Perpetual Pursuit
I’m never going to be a good enough father. I’m never going to be a good enough husband. I’m never going to be a good enough actor for myself. I just never will be, and I have to get comfortable with waking up every day and trying to move some little increment closer to the person I have always dreamed …
Ageless Aviator Wisdom
AOPA Pilot magazine magazine has a great article by Dave Hirschman in the April edition about the Mavericks, four Florida pilots who fly formation aerobatics together. They are mostly in their mid-70’s. With long backgrounds in all kinds of flying. Ageless aviators with wisdom to spare: Just like artists or musicians, we’re constantly striving to master our craft, to try …
Japanese Running Monks
“Enlightenment, the monk says, isn’t a point where everything stops and you’ve made it, forever surrounded by a halo of bliss. It is something alive, something that pushes you on every day, whether you are a Daigyoman Ajari on Mount Hiei or a data-management assistant in an office in Hounslow.” Article in The Guardian on Japanese monks who run long-distance …
Shi Su Yan on the Inner Art
Four Weeks, 40 Years, Neither is Enough
Will Smith on the Perpetual Pursuit
“I love the hustle, I love the grind, I love working sixteen- and eighteen-hour days and waking up at four the next morning and going to the gym. I love that.” ~ Will Smith. Interview in Esquire magazine, March 2015.
The Search for the Simplicity of a Single Line
When I first started thinking about the Inner Art of Airmanship, I was looking for the common connections between all kinds of flying. Sometimes we find deeper truths that connect more diverse activities. Like how how search for the simplicity of a single line links a seventieth century French painter, Zen brush art, the trajectory of space missions, Formula 1’s …
Ligety on the Perpetual Pursuit
“Even if you’re winning, you’re always trying to find something better.” ~ Ted Ligety, one of the greatest skiers of all time. (Interview in The Red Bulletin, March 2015)