Accidents Quote by Jerome F. Lederer Download Open image “Every accident, no matter how minor, is a failure of the organization.” — Jerome F. Lederer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accidents Aviation Failure Matter Minors Organization Safety
“viewing accidents as chains of events and conditions may limit understanding and learning from the loss and omit causal factors that cannot be included… — Nancy G. Leveson Copy Share Image
The greatest failure of all is the failure to act when action is needed — John Wooden Copy Share Image
I believe that every person's failure is their fault, every single time. — Jon Taffer Copy Share Image
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Columbus did not know where he was going, how far it was, nor where he had been after his return. With Apollo, there is… — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center on a research journey to circle the moon. This will involve known risks of great magnitude and probable risks which have not been foreseen. Apollo 8 has 5,600,000 parts and 1.5 million systems, subsystems and assemblies. With 99.9… — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share
The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety. — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
Of the major incentives to improve safety, by far the most compelling is that of economics. The moral incentive, which is most evident following… — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
Risk management is a more realistic term than safety. It implies that hazards are ever-present, that they must be identified, analyzed, evaluated and controlled… — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and showing us over and over again the birth, life, death, and resurrection of his only begotten Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. It was like a best-loved story being told day after day with… — Francine Rivers Copy Share
No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point and take details for granted: two trivialities omitted can add up to an impasse). The unpractised writer, even after the dawn of a conscience, gives him no such chance; before he can spot the point… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share
The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
I made out with a homeless guy by accident. I had no idea -- he was really tan, he had no shoes on. I… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could… — Annie Ernaux Copy Share
In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it up. (As… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
