Daniel Dennett Quotes

If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time.

A lot of the time you see a warning, in the subway, or in a movie theater, the main thrust of the warning will be to not panic if there is an emergency. To listen to directions. Now that's a waste. They could have given you information, but you can see their expectation that you're going to screw up.

I like to be directed, but when I'm flying and I'm on fire, I don't want someone coming and getting in my way just because they feel like they need to.

Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.

When it comes to public safety, I listen to police chiefs and cops, not to a cable-news station.

I never panic.

The Capitol Police have a very tough job.

My job as Home Secretary is to keep families and communities across our country safe.

We try to reduce the danger to a minimum, of course. And then we prepare for accidents with alternate plans. For instance, if I'm turning over a stagecoach, I try to take into consideration what moves I have to make if it flips in the wrong direction. Without those emergency plans you get hurt.

I live in dread that I might find myself in some sort of emergency, and everyone will turn to me and expect me to know what the correct procedures are.

My biggest emotion on Apollo 13 after the oxygen tank explosion was disappointment that we had lost the landing.

How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.

This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely." "I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.

A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.

Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger. To resist takes tremendous conscious effort, you don’t dare let your guard down for an instant. The void puts you on edge, makes your movements tentative and clumsy. But as the climb continues, you grow accustomed to the exposure, you get used to rubbing shoulders with doom, you come to believe in the reliability of your hands and feet and head. You learn to trust your self-control.

Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.

When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack you don't worry about losing a Pawn on the Queen's side

I get rational when I panic.

It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors.

If we're trying to protect the American public, we should not put in place a travel ban.

When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.

Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.

The danger is different from the fear. ... [practice] what to do if things go wrong, as well as right.