Amanda Ripley Quotes
- We gauge risk literally hundreds of times per day, usually well and often subconsciously. We start assessing risk before the disaster even happens. We are…
- The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.
- Narrative is the beginning of recovery.
- Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation…
- Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence life events; a…