Rob Long Quotes

• Stress is not bad but a necessary part of facing life's challenges. Whilst the dreamers maintain the delusion that 'all accidents are preventable' the rest of us know that the bumps and challenges of life are necessary for learning, resilience and maturation. There can be no resilience without stress, and no learning without risk.

  Rob Long

  Stress, Challenges, Risk

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• The real enemy of safety is not non-compliance but non-thinking

  Rob Long

  Real, Thinking, Safety

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• We make thousands of decisions everyday in automatic mode without a mistake. Yet we don't reflect and celebrate this wonderful mode of human decision making at work rather, we put the blow torch on the one moment when it doesn't work and something goes wrong.

  Rob Long

  Mistake, Blow, Decision

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• If we accept that there is no such thing as 'zero risk' then we should not spin the meaning of words with assertions such as 'all accidents are preventable'.

  Rob Long

  Zero, Risk, Accepting

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• Who among us has not gazed thoughtfully and patiently at a painting of Jackson Pollock and thought "What a piece of crap?"

  Rob Long

  Pieces, Painting, Pollock

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