Founders

What I learned from reading Yeager: An Autobiography by General Chuck Yeager.  ---- [10:14] I was a competitive kid. I always tried to do my best. I never thought of myself as being poor or deprived in any way. We managed to scrape by. Kids learned self-sufficiency. Mom and Dad taught us by example. They never complained. I had certain standards that I lived by. Whatever I did, I determined to do the best I could at it.   [13:22] The sense of speed and exhilaration makes you so damned happy that you want to shout for joy.  [17:15]  In nearly every case the worst pilots die by their own stupidity.  [26:04] I sensed that he was a very strong and determined person, a poor boy who had started with nothing and would show the world what he was really made of.  [38:48] Every muscle in my body is hammering at me. I just want to let go of his guy and drop in my tracks—either to sleep or to die. I don’t know why I keep hold of him and struggle to climb. It’s the challenge, I guess, and a stubborn pride knowing that mos