Scenarios Quotes

• Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.

  Michael Porter

  Risk, Management, Strategy

  Michael E. Porter (1985). “Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance”

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• Always play for the worst case scenario..If it is the best you'll win anyway

  David Trott

  Winning, Play, Worst Case Scenario

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• The power of a dream is that it frees up your imagination to think about the best possible scenario for your life.

  Silken Laumann

  Dream, Powerful, Thinking

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• Looking back on high school, I just remember specific scenarios and thinking, wow, that was such a big deal at the time, but right now it feels like it never even happened. So I guess if I can give any advice, I would just say that everything will pass, and it'll feel like it was a big deal over nothing.

  Nina Dobrev

  School, Thinking, Giving

  "Nina Dobrev". www.seventeen.com. March 3, 2010.

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• Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it 'the eaten by wolves factor.' If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don't worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do.

  Randy Pausch

  Attitude, Optimistic, Thinking

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios.

  Julie Bishop

  Government, Facts, Strategy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And when the chickens that didn't hatch come home to roost, we will rue the day when, misled by sloppy accounting and rosy scenarios, we gave away the national nest egg.

  Paul Krugman

  Home, Eggs, Nests

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• Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Positive Thinking, Worst Case Scenario, Anxiety

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• We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Writing, Creative

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.31, Bantam

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• Ultimately, China may use force to push for unification with Taiwan, a scenario we all must work to prevent.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Taiwan, Use, May

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• Pilots, to a large degree, are like salesmen. They have to be confident to be good at their jobs. They have to practice relentlessly and plan out all the scenarios of the things that could happen when they're out there. Nothing is more important than preparation. They are also mighty competitive, both as individuals and as squadrons.

  Simon Sinek

  Jobs, Practice, Preparation

  "Teamwork: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Dirty, Inspiration

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• We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.

  Lewis Thomas

  Country, Men, Bird

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.'

  Howard Rheingold

  Games, Firsts, Kind

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• Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine; the groom, in this scenario, is nothing but a prop.

  Naomi Wolf

  Entrepreneur, Magazines, Tabloids

  "How chick-flicks are breaking the conventions of wedded bliss" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

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• Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future.

  Jurgen Habermas

  September 11, Important, Development

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror". Book by Giovanna Borradori, Jacques Derrida, and Jürgen Habermas, www.berfrois.com. 2003.

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• If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.

  Andrew Young

  Gun, Men, Years

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• The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

  George Soros

  Ideas, Way, Different

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• 'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and Third World meet. But the thing that I like the most about the metaphor is that it can be scaled to suit almost any scenario.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Immigration, Elysium, World

  "Immersed in Movies: Neill Blomkamp Talks ‘Elysium,’ Sci-Fi, VFX" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. August 6, 2013.

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• That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.

  Michael J. Fox

  Worst Case Scenario, Focus, Sound

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• As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it.

  Thomas Frank

  Trying, Watches, Three

  "Wrecking, Wrecking, Wrecked" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2008.

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• My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able to offer, then for a fee have them produce in a minute or two a beautiful finished copy in a dust jacket that you would pay for and take home.

  William Gibson

  Beautiful, Dream, Book

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• It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

  Stone Gossard

  Personality, Balance, Jam

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• In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.

  Lady Gregory

  Writing, Play, Tragedy

  Lady Gregory (1970). “The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies”, Colin Smythe

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• When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the abduction, the accident. Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown. Perhaps fantasy is what you fill up maps with rather than saying that they too contain the unknown.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Believe, People, Worry

  Rebecca Solnit (2006). “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”, p.85, Penguin

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