Quotes About Safety

With survey data from 170 research scientists working in six Irish research centers, the authors showed that trust in top management led to psychological safety, which in turn promoted work engagement.

the existence of procedures does not ensure their use. Without psychological safety, micro-assessments of interpersonal risk tend to crowd out proper responses.

Another way to think about the voice-silence asymmetry is captured in the phrase "no one was ever fired for silence." The instinct to play it safe is powerful. People in organizations don't spontaneously take interpersonal risks. We don't want to stumble into a sacred cow. We can be completely confident that we'll be safe if we are silent, and we lack confidence that our voices will really make a difference – a voice inhibiting combination.

Cisterns are made to hold water, but there was no water in it at the time. Had there been, Joseph could have drowned. Instead he stayed relatively safe inside the cistern until his brothers inadvertently moved him toward his destiny in Egypt.

Cisterns are made to hold water, but there was no water in it at the time. Had there been, Joseph could have drowned. Instead he stayed relatively safe inside the cistern until his brothers inadvertently moved him toward his destiny in Egypt. Reflecting on my own cistern experience, I realized that God's intention was not to drown me, not to overwhelm me with illness, but only to hold me still for a while.

Well, it is so difficult right now when you look out on the road and how fast people go and the more and more cars you see out there, for teenagers, you'd think a kid that literally, a few years before, was sitting back in a car seat in the back seat is now behind the wheel.

those promises. I can only promise I want you safe and sound.

Taylor wanted it back, wanted a lover's touch on his body, wanted more. Wanted to open himself up to somebody who wouldn't hurt him, who would take care of him, who would catch him after he came apart.

Trav held him, thinking only, Thank God. Thank God. He'll take me and not the drugs. Me and not the horrible fall. Thank God.

God, two concussions in a year. Ellery was going to make him wear a helmet to go to the bathroom, and Jackson would totally deserve it.

cause you're gentle enough to tame a rabbit but fierce enough to keep him safe—

Years later, when their lives had turned out very differently, Mackey would remember that moment, the freedom at his face and the safety at his back, and it would be the diamond in his mind, the one clear moment that taught him what love was all about. Even if the diamond was flawed, it was the first diamond he'd ever grasped

Ellery kept his eyes closed, safe in Jackson's arms, knowing that if Jackson had any say about it, their bodies would be safe and alive for as long as possible. Their hearts would be safe and bound forever.

Epigraph "I got a revolver to protect us." said Miss Constance, "and I soon had use for it." --New York Times, June 3 1915

a mother should, above all, make her children feel safe. Perhaps

Children could vanish without trace, but not parents.

In what neighborhood—town or city, rural area or village in the country—could I raise a brown boy and believe that no harm could ever come to him, where

[On learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick:] The passengers are just that distance from death.

God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.

This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting value or meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.

This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that had any lasting value or meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.

I'll catch you if you fall

I'd like you to meet my new girlfriend," said Erik. "I think someone's trying to kill her.

Please come to the counter surveillance counter.