Worst Case Scenario Quotes:

Holman's world is a worst case scenario but it's healthy to examine extreme possibilities. If the technology that is used for genetic enrichment in Genus had been distributed equitably, across society, it could have been nirvana, a great world where people don't fear the diseases that we die from. The problems that arrive are more to do with resource hording than technology itself.

- Jonathan Trigell

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Technology, Worst Case Scenario, People

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

topic: Running, Worst Case Scenario, Mind

Most of us have to think worst-case scenario.

- Willie Parker

topic: Thinking, Worst Case Scenario, Cases

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

source: "2 Willful Leaders Heighten Tensions Between Russia, Turkey". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.

topic: Russia, Turkeys, Worst Case Scenario

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

topic: Careers, Worst Case Scenario, Javelin

I'm actually quite pro-technology, but I'm a worrier, so I like to envision worst-case scenarios.

- Charlie Brooker

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Technology, Worst Case Scenario, Cases

It's a barrel of laughs, isn't it? It makes The Day After look like friggin'...insert name of cheerful thing here. It was one of the things that made me really worry about worst-case scenarios. There's something impish and probably somewhat therapeutic about thinking about those things.

- Charlie Brooker

source: "The Man Behind Netflix’s “Black Mirror” Is Maybe a Little Too Good at Predicting the Future". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2016.

topic: Thinking, Names, Worst Case Scenario, Insert

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

topic: Worst Case Scenario, Needs, Taste, Uncontrollable, Complicity

I always embrace the worst-case scenario.

- Conor Oberst

topic: Worst Case Scenario, Embrace, Cases

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

source: Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Fall, Worst Case Scenario, Trying, Scenarios

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

source: "Are We Prepared? An Exclusive Interview with WHO Director-General Margaret Chan". “Next Outbreak” with Joanne Silberner, www.pbs.org. September 28, 2015.

topic: Mean, Ebola, Worst Case Scenario, Airborne, Incubation

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

- Randy Pausch

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

topic: Thinking, Worst Case Scenario, Cases, Contingency

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

source: "Why novelist John Irving's latest protagonist is a fiction writer". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. November 3, 2015.

topic: Worst Case Scenario, Stories, Kind

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

- Michael J. Fox

topic: Worst Case Scenario, Cases, Happens, Scenarios

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

topic: Worst Case Scenario, Doe, Flukes, Scenarios, Imagining The Worst

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

topic: Worst Case Scenario, Focus, Sound, Pollyanna, Tripe

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

source: Karl Pilkington (2010). “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington”, p.11, Canongate Books

topic: Dirty, Population Problem, Worst Case Scenario

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

- Moby

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Self, Worst Case Scenario, Douchebags

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

topic: Attitude, Thinking, Worry, Last Lecture, Risk Management

In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history.

- Juan Williams

topic: College, Florida, Presidential, Pivotal, Electoral College

Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.

- Simon Sinek

source: Twitter post from Jul 07, 2009

topic: Facts, Plans, According To Plan, Predictability, Worst Case Scenario

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

- Rener Gracie

topic: Cases, Worst, Train, Worst Case Scenario

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

topic: Land, Feet, Long, Worst Case Scenario

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

- David Trott

topic: Winning, Play, Advertising, Scenarios, Worst Case Scenario

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

topic: Sports, Water, Lasts, Goggles, Worst Case Scenario

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

- Portia de Rossi

topic: Cases, Worst, Worst Case Scenario

The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario. World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children.

- Bruce Sterling

source: "Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten". Documentary, Biography, Music, 2007.

topic: Children, Fun, Real, Worst Case Scenario

Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce his belief that it would be catastrophic if it did. You are tightening the coil of his anxiety, not loosening it. All to often, the Stoics point out, things will not turn out for the best.

- Oliver Burkeman

source: "Happiness is a glass half empty" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.

topic: Anxiety, Would Be, Belief, Worst Case Scenario

My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.

- Patricia Cornwell

source: "Crime does pay". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2001.

topic: Missing, Cases, Worst, Worst Case Scenario

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

topic: Believe, Loss, Views, Worst Case Scenario

Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.

- Dee Dee Myers

source: "Romney's unlikely role model" by Dee Dee Myers, www.politico.com. October 24, 2011.

topic: Taken, Long, Victory, Financial Services, Worst Case Scenario

I realize that after decades of positive thinking the notion of realism, of things as they are, may seem a little quaint. ... When the stakes are high enough and the risks obvious, we still turn to people who can be counted on to understand those risks and prepare for worst-case scenarios. A chief of state does not want to hear a general in the field say that he 'hopes' to win tomorrow's battle or that he's 'visualizing victory' ...

- Barbara Ehrenreich

topic: Positive Thinking, Winning, Reality, Visualizing, Worst Case Scenario

Horror writers are specialists in the worst case scenario

- Richard Laymon

topic: Horror, Cases, Worst, Worst Case Scenario

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

topic: Couple, Thinking, Trying, Worst Case Scenario

Sooner or later there will be a nuclear 9/11 [by Islamic terrorists] in an American city or that of a US ally... A terrorist nuclear attack against an American city could take many forms. A worst case scenario would be the detonation of a nuclear device within a city. Depending upon the size and sophistication of the weapon, it could kill hundreds of thousands or even millions of people.

- David Krieger

topic: Islamic, Cities, People, Sophistication, Worst Case Scenario

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

topic: Fantasy, Horror, Genre, Worst Case Scenario

Many people think you shouldn't stop kids from being kids, and I agree, but no one wants the worst case scenario on their hands. Better safe than sorry I say.

- Raheem Jarbo

topic: Sorry, Kids, Thinking, Scenarios, Worst Case Scenario

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

topic: Strong, Thinking, Government, Worst Case Scenario

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

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Girl, Cases, Worst, Worst Case Scenario

And the very important fact that I'm here to worry with you and go through all of this - every little bit of it - by your side, even your worst-case-scenario, should it somehow come to that. You wouldn't be doing any of it alone.' Her voice drops and she looks down at our hands, fingers entwined, resting on her lap. 'Whatever happens, there will always be us.

- Tabitha Suzuma

topic: Hands, Your Side, Voice, Entwined, Worst Case Scenario

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

topic: Positive Thinking, Anxiety, Sap, Dependable, Scenarios

Even if it doesn't work out, the experience is so valuable to so many employers that your worst case scenario is, 'Ok, so that was a bust, I'll get a six-figure job at whatever company.' Risk is this outmoded idea - your parents might not understand that, but taking these types of risks doesn't have a downside.

- Drew Houston

topic: Jobs, Ideas, Work Out, Worst Case Scenario

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

topic: Style, Mind, Rooms, Scenarios, Best Dressed

So let's raise the tone of the debate. Too often at the moment we look like schoolchildren squabbling over a toy - our most precious toy, the Earth. And the danger is that as we pull in opposite directions in our global tug of war, the Earth will end up broken - or at least unable to sustain human life. That is the worst case scenario - or maybe, from the Earth's point of view, the best.

- Roz Savage

topic: War, Views, Opposites, Scenarios, Tug Of War

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

topic: Years, Burning, Six Year Olds, Methane, Rainforest