11 Quotes by Andrew Zolli

Resilience is rooted in habits we can cultivate and change.

The more beautiful the vision, the more complicated the execution.

Resilient systems fail gracefully. A perfect system is often most fragile.

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.

The author says crises tend to reveal the connectivity of systems that had previously been study only in isolation.

Human beings are consistent with regard to codes of honor, but endlessly fickle with regard to whom those codes apply. E.N. Wilson

Resilient communities relied on informal networks of deep trust to contend with and heal disruption.

Regular, modest failures are actually essential to many forms of resilience.

The author says resilience is the ability to move rob a preferred state to an expanded list of alternatives.