Emma Cassman

“Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.”
― Bill WalshSteve Jamison, The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

“Meeting one of her “daughters” in passing, she would ask:
“Are you working outwardly?”
And if the child replied, “I am doing my best to work inwardly, Mother,” she would go on her way satisfied.”
― Michel de Saint-Pierre, Bernadette and Lourdes: The Whole Inspiring Story of Our Lady of Lourdes

“Do you know, Jacob, when we are talking like this, I feel as if the heart of the little one in my womb were standing still with horror, because it can hear what we are saying. I feel as though it were moving its little hands and were begging: Let me live! You called me into existence. Isn't a human life a sacred thing? Has not God commanded: Thou shalt not kill? And you wanted to be father and mother to me - you awakened me to life - and yet you can discuss whether I am to live or not.”
― Lisbeth Burger, All for the Love of Mothers: Memoirs of a Catholic Midwife

“Hearing someone described as being able to 'fly by the seat of his pants' always suggests to me a leader who hasn't prepared properly and whose pants may soon fall down.”
― Bill WalshSteve Jamison, The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership