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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• I have never thought of a scenario where international football was not a massive part of our [England] game.

  Michael Owen

  Football, Games, England

  "Michael Owen on the English team, Wayne Rooney and the goals record". Interview with Kevin Palmer, www.espn.co.uk. June 12, 2015.

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• Clubs don't like their players going off to play international matches and you can see a scenario where they eventually start to make it more difficult for international sides to call up players.

  Michael Owen

  Player, Clubs, Sides

  "Michael Owen on the English team, Wayne Rooney and the goals record". Interview with Kevin Palmer, www.espn.co.uk. June 12, 2015.

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• Before I had my son, I learned that I had previa and he was breach. When this happened, I felt so out of control. I decided to stay strong and kept doing the poses that help turn the baby. After several disappointing doctor's visits with the same scenario, I realized that I was stuck on my birthing plan.

  Emily Carpenter

  Baby, Stay Strong, Son

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• The minute I spend any energy defending myself, explaining myself, or in the worst case scenario, trying to please those who are criticizing me, I will, you know, just fall off a cliff.

  Amanda Palmer

  Fall, Worst Case Scenario, Trying

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• At no time in the past, now or in the future has or will Russia take any part in actions aimed at overthrowing the legitimate government. I'm talking about something else right now - when someone does this, the outcome is very negative. Libya's state is disintegrated, Iraq's territory is flooded with terrorists, it looks like the scenario will be the same for Syria, and you know what the situation is in Afghanistan.

  Vladimir Putin

  Past, Talking, Iraq

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• Once the steam engine went away and we started moving into burning fossil fuels - not just burning them, but everything we do with oil - we've been experiencing [these problems] at an accelerated rate. The scary end-game scenario is getting closer and closer, about what we're going to be able to do to sustain life on this planet as we have come to know it. And I think this is a very real possibility, that we could be dealing with conditions we have no idea how to wrestle with.

  Don Cheadle

  Real, Moving, Thinking

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• In order for the second scenario to win, the world would have to return where the struggle for independence and against Western colonialism and imperialism was lost or abandoned more than 50 years ago. Let's face it: the world was never really completely de-colonized. It would be total hypocrisy to claim otherwise.

  Andre Vltchek

  Struggle, Winning, Order

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Some think that Russia should become a kind of a U.S. province, where it should supply natural resources to the United States and the rest of the world. But these people ignore one very important thing: The Russian people will never agree to this scenario. Russia is ultimately a self-sufficient country.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

  Bruce Sterling

  Literature, Today, Students

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• But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week.

  Nick Hornby

  Narrative, Kind, Week

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• If you find yourself focusing on negative scenarios, ask us angels to transmute this fearful energy into love.

  Doreen Virtue

  Angel, Finding Yourself, Energy

  Doreen Virtue (2008). “Daily Guidance from Your Angels”, p.332, Hay House, Inc

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• I reject the word 'script' entirely-at any rate in the usual sense. I prefer the old usage-usually scenario-which it had in the Commedia dell'Arte, meaning an outline or scheme: it implies a dynamism, a number of ideas and principles from which one can set out to find the best possible approach to filming.

  Jacques Rivette

  Ideas, Numbers, Scripts

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• I've done a nude scene and I felt it was appropriate to the storyline and I thought it was done in a respectful way and I felt comfortable doing it. But there are obviously going to be scenarios - not necessarily in this job, but in other jobs to come - where the question will be posed to me 'Will I want to do nude scenes?' and I would have to consider that as its own thing. And not just something to say yes to because I have done so before. It really is circumstantial.

  Nathalie Emmanuel

  Jobs, Done, Want

  Source: www.elle.com

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• World War III would become a great possibility, but such a scenario is quite possible under any new US administration... To answer your question: business as usual.

  Andre Vltchek

  War, Usual, Answers

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'm thinking about the end of civilization. We may not keep growing like we are now. There must be an end of civilization. That's what I did as a show at the Palais de Tokyo, the 33 scenarios of how this civilization ends.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Thinking, Civilization, Growing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The West can only try to destroy Russia and China internally, through horrendous sets of tricks, propaganda and toxic lies. But now even such a scenario is unlikely.

  Andre Vltchek

  Lying, Russia, Trying

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• MCs get a little bit of love and think they hot,
  Talkin bout how much money they got...all y'all records sound the same.
  I'm sick of that fake thug, R&B-rap scenario, all day on the radio,
  Same scenes in the video, monotonous material.
  ...Y'all don't hear me though:
  These record labels slang our tapes like dope.
  You can be next in line and signed, and still be writing rhymes and broke.

  Stic.man

  Rap, Writing, Thug

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