Scenarios Quotes - Page 16

• The absurdity of public-choice theory is captured by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in the following little scenario: "Can you direct me to the railway station?" asks the stranger. "Certainly," says the local, pointing in the opposite direction, towards the post office, "and would you post this letter for me on your way?" "Certainly," says the stranger, resolving to open it to see if it contains anything worth stealing.

  Linda McQuaig

  Winning, Opposites, Office

  Linda McQuaig (2001). “All you can eat: greed, lust, and the new capitalism”, Viking

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• There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on that. We're preparing for the worst, but we're hoping for the best. And I've told people the end is in sight.

  Gray Davis

  Summer, Years, Sight

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• I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.

  Satyajit Ray

  Writing, Hobbies, Stories

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.96, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create.

  Roger Garaudy

  Written

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• No, she did not have a history of twins, and we had discussed all of this before she got pregnant. What if all three, what if two eggs, what if one - you discuss every scenario.

  Cheryl Tiegs

  Pregnancy, Eggs, Two

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• First, imagine taking the potentially regret - producing path of inaction. Then imagine what the very best outcome would be were you to take this risk. By picturing both scenarios in advance, you can avoid the regret of what might have been.

  Wayne Dyer

  Regret, Risk, Path

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• Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward an evolutionary society.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Moving, Ideas, Important

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• Having worked my a - off over here for the last 10 years really hard, really f - ing hard, to see that unfolding every Tuesday and then watching the interviews, and the Megyn Kelly ... It's just extraordinary. It's quite a horrible situation because something needs to happen to stop this thing [Donald Trump] from becoming one of the most embarrassing scenarios ever in the history of politics.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Becoming One, Years, Tuesday

  Source: variety.com

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