A Quote by Sacha Gervasi

The good thing about the Anvil school of filmmaking was that it was fly by the seat of your pants. There was no safety net.

Sacha Gervasi

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Sacha Gervasi
American - Journalist
Born: 1966

One of the dangers about net-net investing is that if you buy a net-net that begins to lose money your net-net goes down and your capacity to be able to make a profit becomes less secure. So the trick is not necessarily to predict what the earnings are going to be but to have a clear conviction that the company isn't going bust and that your margin of safety will remain intact over time.

Peter Cundill

I've never been good at accepting jobs six months down the line. I can't do it. If I'm thinking about this, I can't think about that. So I always seem to fly by the seat of my pants.

Robert Carlyle

You have to be a well-rounded leader. You can't fly by the seat of your pants anymore. You have to be incredibly tough-minded about standards of performance, but you also have to be incredibly tenderhearted with the people you're working with.

Douglas Conant

Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.

Bill Walsh

I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.

Carlene Carter

It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.

Craig Ferguson

I'm not a daredevil. I don't fly without a safety net.

Steve Wynn

I don't fly by the seat of my pants. I set strategies, and then I pursue those in unrelenting fashion.

Chris Meledandri

Children have to fly on a separate plane, and people older than 60 have to fly on a separate plane also, because for some reason, after you get a little older, you forget that when you pull on the seat in front of you to get up from your seat that the person sitting in that seat actually feels something.

Jay R. Ferguson

I'm definitely someone who likes to fly by the seat of her pants. My mum always prays for the best.

Ali Larter

Finish. The difference between being a writer and being a person of talent is the discipline it takes to apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair and finish. Don't talk about doing it. Do it. Finish.

E. L. Konigsburg

SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.

Douglas Coupland

Most Americans get that there is a need for a safety net in our country, and we support that safety net.

Steve Scalise

The dream is everything in the sport of fishing. You dream with every cast of your fly that the shadowy form will finally rise to your fly. You dream as you drop off to sleep at night about the lunker that got loose just as you were about to net it.