Resilience Quotes

“Eight weeks of practice in meditation, even with those with no previous experience, was enough reconfigure the brains of participants. The gray matter which fuels worry shrank, and the area associated with healthy thought awareness group.”
― Andrew Zolli, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back

“The author says crises tend to reveal the connectivity of systems that had previously been study only in isolation.”
― Andrew Zolli, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back

“The small scale of the groups within such networks helps them remain agile, while the many-to-many ties in the larger network ensure that even if 10 percent or 20 percent of its membership is eliminated, the network as a whole will continue to function. "How many times have we killed the number three in al-Qaeda? In a network, everyone is number three," notes [US Naval Postgraduate School professor of defense analysis Dr. John] Arquilla, dryly.”
― Andrew Zolli, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back

“Human beings are consistent with regard to codes of honor, but endlessly fickle with regard to whom those codes apply. E.N. Wilson”
― Andrew Zolli, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back

“In populations experiencing trauma across a wide variety of settings, the portion of those experiencing ongoing PTSD is remarkably similar – one third. Ecclesiastes says woe to him who falls alone, but that the cord of THREE strands is not easily broken. Apparently deep in our human wiring is the resilience to be a buttress for those feeling overcome.”
― Andrew Zolli, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back

“The more beautiful the vision, the more complicated the execution.”
― Andrew Zolli, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back

“Resilient communities relied on informal networks of deep trust to contend with and heal disruption.”
― Andrew Zolli, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back

“Resilience is rooted in habits we can cultivate and change.”
― Andrew Zolli, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back

“Resilient systems fail gracefully. A perfect system is often most fragile.”
― Andrew Zolli, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back

“Regular, modest failures are actually essential to many forms of resilience.”
― Andrew Zolli, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back

“The author says one of the sources of resilience is the ability to measure and perceive early warning signs so as to adapt.”
― Andrew Zolli, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back

“The author says resilience is the ability to move rob a preferred state to an expanded list of alternatives.”
― Andrew Zolli, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back

“At the center of this remarkable story was a clear, shared vision of the bank as a long-term social institution first, and a short-term profit-making institution second.”
― Andrew Zolli, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back