Quotes About Worst Case Scenario

#1. 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

#2. The girls you meet are never very far from their worst-case scenario.

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. The maximum sentence was twenty years for each free phone call. Twenty years for each call! I was facing a worst-case scenario of 460 years.

Kevin D. Mitnick

#4. Turkey's NATO membership is one thing that is forestalling the worst-case scenario - open conflict between Russia and Turkey - because neither Moscow nor the West wants a Russian NATO conflict to erupt.

Peter Kenyon

#5. Everyone needs to remember that Ebola was not a worst-case scenario. Preparedness for the future means preparedness for a very severe disease that spreads via the airborne route or can be transmitted during the incubation period, before an infected person shows telltale signs of illness.

Margaret Chan

#6. She gave me the jabs and said I was covered for every worst-case scenario, including being bitten by a dirty chimp. I told her this is why we have over-population problems. Why are idiots who annoy dirty chimps being protected?

Karl Pilkington

#7. In my mind, being overdressed is not a bad thing at all. What's the worst case scenario? That you are the best-dressed person in the room? Who cares!

Rachel Zoe

#8. I highly recommend inviting the worst-case scenario into your life.

Portia De Rossi

#9. Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.

Stephen Harper

#10. If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you've lived it twice.

Michael J. Fox

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

David Trott

#12. The world is a worst case scenario and I'm afraid that all you sense is true

Stephen King

#13. Don't let them get to you. They have no idea what it's like to be you. They have no idea the things you went through. The things you've seen. They can pretend they know. They can dream up the worst-case scenario, but chances are, it doesn't even come close. You are stronger than they are.

Jennifer Rush

#14. The worst-case scenario always seems impossible until it actually happens.

R.C. Wade

#15. Ove looks at the group assembled around him, as if he's been kidnapped and taken to a parallel universe. For a moment he thinks about swerving off the road, until he realises that the worst case scenario would be that they all accompanied him into the afterlife.

Fredrik Backman

#16. Horror writers are specialists in the worst-case scenario.

Richard Laymon

#17. I'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.

John Irving

#18. Often think of the worst-case scenario, the "Eaten By Wolves" factor.

Randy Pausch

#19. I suppose the worst case scenario is that people will get to the point where they can't actually afford to make what they want to make creatively. The industry is collapsing.

Kate Bush

#20. The worst case scenario is you really like someone's work, then you meet them and they're a self-involved, entitled douchebag.

Moby

#21. Emma laughed darkly. "It's a completely mad idea, I know. But my brain is a hope-making engine."
"I'm so glad," I said. "Mine is a worst-case-scenario generator."
"We need each other, then."
"Yes. But we already knew that, I think.

Ransom Riggs

#22. Hansel and Gretel had breadcrumbs, she had plastic spiders. Worst-case scenario, she could find her way back by following the trail of dead birds that had choked on them.

Jeff Strand

#23. My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.

Patricia Cornwell

#24. Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.

Michael J. Fox

#25. I always embrace the worst-case scenario.

Conor Oberst

#26. If the javelin had hit me 10cm to the left, it would have punctured my lung, 20cm higher the throat, which would have been the worst-case scenario. Just 1cm higher and it would have hit bone, muscle and tendon and that would have been the end of my sporting career.

Roman Sebrle

#27. Fred nodded and said, "So what you're saying is, if we all die, that's not even the worst-case scenario."
John replied, "I'd still like to shoot a little higher than that, Freddy.

David Wong

#28. I find some comfort in running through the worst-case scenario in my mind and seeing how it's all going to go down.

Laurel Nakadate

#29. During the last few hours of the trip, he and Tess had drilled procedures and done a whole lot of worst-case-scenario type war-gaming. He was now as convinced as he'd ever be that she knew what to do and where to go if Godzilla attacked Kazabek ...

Suzanne Brockmann

#30. The worst case scenario sees the Amazon rainforest burning, huge amounts of methane being released by Siberian peat bogs and so on - by the time today's six year olds are 60, such a scenario would see global warming already out of control.

Mark Lynas

#31. I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I'd still land on my feet.

Eli Broad

#32. It's a completely mad idea, I know. But my brain is a hope-making machine,'
'I'm so glad. Mine is a worst-case-scenario generator.

Ransom Riggs

#33. Whenever I take a position, I like to imagine what it would be like under the worst-case scenario. In doing so, I minimize the confusion if that situation actually develops. In my view, losses are a very important part of trading. When a loss happens, I believe in embracing it.

Gil Blake

#34. It would be normal for anybody running a high-profile, politically controversial operation in China to anticipate worst-case scenario, and to do everything possible to guard against them.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#35. 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

#36. A couple days before the stunts, if I'm doing something particularly dangerous, I will go over every worst-case scenario in my head, like this could happen, this could happen, this could happen, this could happen. I try to think about that to where it's ingrained in me.

Johnny Knoxville

#37. For those that dare to stand up
against those that want to knock you down." The dedication from Worst Case Scenario: Bug Out - Book 2.

G. Allen Mercer

#38. I would visualize the best- and worst-case scenarios. Whether I get disqualified or my goggles fill up with water or I lose my goggles or I come in last, I'm ready for anything.

Michael Phelps

#39. I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.

Brian K. Vaughan

#40. The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.

Susan Sontag

#41. The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death.

Kenneth S. Deffeyes

#42. If you train worst case scenarios consistently, they will no longer be worst case scenarios

Rener Gracie