Amanda Ripley Professions : Journalist Browse All Authors Top 24 quotes by Amanda Ripley Most serious plane crashes are survivable. There's a sense that, 'Oh, if we go down, that's it, it's out of my hands.' And that's just statistically not true. I have more optimism and more faith that my own actions can make a difference. Amanda Ripley optimism differences hands Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent. Amanda Ripley boredom education children 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 is unfamiliar to the extreme. Amanda Ripley survival impossible lost The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time. Amanda Ripley risk events management Similar Authors Irving Bacheller journalist Bill Keller journalist Bob Woodward journalist Bolesław Prus journalist Buzz Bissinger journalist Burton Rascoe journalist All Authors