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“If I'm lucky, in a month from now, best-case scenario, I'm managing a Cinnabon in Omaha.”

Author:Saul

“With each newly minted crisis, US leaders roll out the same time-tested scenario. They start demonizing a foreign leader ... charging them with being communistic or otherwise dictatorial, dangerously aggressive, power hungry, genocidal, given to terrorism or drug trafficking, ready to deny us access to vital resources, harboring weapons of mass destruction, or just inexplicably "anti-American" and "anti-West." Lacking any information to the contrary, the frightened public ... are swept along.”

“Three scenarios for post-Kyoto emissions reductions indicate that ... the long-term consequences are small... The influence of the Protocol would, furthermore, be undetectable for many decades.”

Long Three Term Influence Consequence Decades Posts Long Term Scenarios Reduction Emissions Protocol Kyoto Kyoto Protocol

Author:Tom Wigley

“It depends. When it's the right scenario, it's just as stimulating and just as exciting for me. It's just a question of finding a piece of material that lights a fire under you.”

Light Fire Pieces Materials Depends Findings Exciting Scenarios

Author:Andy Garcia

“I've been in scenarios as an actor where you have to manufacture an emotion that's not really there, but it wasn't hard with Halle because she's a great person and very beautiful, so it ain't a tough job at the end of the day.”

Persons Ends Hard Jobs Beautiful Actors Emotion Tough The End Of The Day Scenarios Very Beautiful Great Person

Author:Benjamin Bratt

“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.”

Persons Form Personality Balance Band Behavior Complexes Mutual Flaws Pearls Scenarios Neurotic Jam Exhibits Dave Mutual Respect Personality Flaws Pearl Jam

Author:Stone Gossard

“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'.”

Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

“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.”

Writing Littles Made Play Three Lines Tragedy Gates Scenarios Informers

Book:The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies

Source: The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies

“While there have been many potential scenarios discussed, today we have only confirmed that we designed Xbox One to enable our customers to trade in and resell games at retail.”

Has Beens Today Games Trade Customers Scenarios Retail Xbox Xbox One

Author:Larry Hryb

“My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.”

Way Action Certain Lines Punishment Reactions Treated Scenarios Action And Reaction

Author:Lance Armstrong

“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.”

Ifs Has Beens Ends Left Careers Cases Worst Higher Bones Muscles Throat Lungs Scenarios Worst Case Scenario Javelin

Author:Roman Sebrle

“I don't need a receipt for a doughnut. I'll just give you the money, and you give me the doughnut. End of transaction! We don't need to bring ink and paper into this! I can't imagine a scenario where I'd have to prove that I bought a doughnut. Some skeptical friend...'Don't even act like I didn't buy that doughnut! I've got the documentation right here! Oh, wait, it's back home, in the file. Under d...for doughnut.'”

Needs Giving I Can Ends Home Humor Funny Waiting Imagine Prove Paper Give Me Ink Files Skeptical Scenarios Back Home Transactions Doughnut Documentation Receipts Ink And Paper

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“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.”

Knows Important Development September Scenarios September 11

Author:Jurgen Habermas

“Horror writers are specialists in the worst case scenario”

Cases Worst Horror Scenarios Specialists Worst Case Scenario

Author:Richard Laymon

“Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and to that extent I'm a cautious optimist.”

Wells Situation Currents Work Out Acknowledge Gravity Optimist Scenarios Cautious Biologist Current Situation Things Work Out

Author:Richard Lewontin

“Human beings are just way more complex than they'd like to be. They like to be simple machines. And they'll set up fantasy scenarios where they're simple machines, and get hurt and do things they regret.”

Way Humans Hurt Human Beings Simple Fantasy Regret Machines Complexes Scenarios

Author:Nell Zink

“Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.”

Giving Doe Happens Opportunity Fiction Give Me Science Fiction Scenarios Great Opportunity Futurist

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority.”

Nations Source Developing Superiority Scenarios Demographics Dynamism

Author:Ali Babacan

“Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel, The 5th Wave, explores the latter scenario, because, frankly, I believe it represents the likeliest outcome of an extraterrestrial encounter. In short, if they're out there, we better hope they never find us.”

Ifs Believe Ends I Believe Existence Novel Possibility Crisis Wave Genre Outcomes Encounters Latter Sci Fi Existential Scenarios Existential Crisis Extraterrestrial 5th Wave

Author:Rick Yancey

“A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.”

Stories Might Fiction Science Fiction Setting Settings Scenarios Good Science Fiction Stories

Author:Jamais Cascio

“New video gaming systems are coming out that track every joint of your body. It's basically going to become a normal thing for us to allow Microsoft to put a three-dimensional camera on top of your television set looking at you, which sounds like a Big Brother scenario if ever I heard one, but, still, it's what we're going to allow.”

Ifs Stills Body Bigs Three Sound Heard Television Brother Normal Cameras Track Your Body Video Coming Out Joints Scenarios Microsoft Gaming Normal Things

Author:Jesse Schell

“A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic. If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.”

Source: About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design

“Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have good lines of communications with local emergency response officials and practice those relationships in drills and special exercises.”

“There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.”

Mind Kind Has Beens Stills War Would Be Nuclear Terrorist Bombs Transition Overwhelming Isolated Locked Scenarios Annihilation Nuclear War Mind Set Preparedness Nuclear Bomb

Author:Irwin Redlener

“Eventually, the Sun will swell to occupy the entire sky as its expansion subsumes the orbit of earth. Earth's surface temperature will rise until it matches the 3,000-degree rarified outer layers of the expanded Sun.... But not to worry. We will surely go extinct for some other reason long before this scenario unfolds.”

Long Reason Earth Worry Sun Sky Degrees Surface Layers Expansion Extinction Temperature Scenarios Orbit

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“As a child, I use to act with my sisters at home, we created our own scenarios and acted them out, we had great fun doing that.”

Children Use Home Fun My Sister Scenarios

Author:Majid Michel

“A scenario is suggested by which the universe and its laws could have arisen naturally from nothing. Current cosmology suggests that no laws of physics were violated in bringing the universe into existence. The laws of physics themselves are shown to correspond to what one would expect if the universe appeared from nothing. There is something rather than nothing because something is more stable.”

Ifs Law Universe Existence Atheism Currents Positive Atheism Physics Stable Scenarios Cosmology Laws Of Physics

Author:Victor J. Stenger

“People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.”

People Land Happenings Dues Doom Scenarios Famine Living On

Author:David Attenborough

“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.”

Thinking Firsts Looks Long Government Strong Cases Worst Building Taxes Raises Obvious Canada Scenarios Unstable Worst Case Scenario

Author:Stephen Harper

“I really have always thought of myself as somebody who lives in the middle of the wheel and is able to go to the extreme, to the outside of the wheel in any direction. The best case scenario for me is to be able to be centered and then go out.”

Able Cases Middle Extremes Wheels Scenarios

Author:Jim Carrey

“In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.”

People Notes Scenarios

Author:Beau Willimon

“It is undeniable that we all create scenarios and then become convinced by them, down to our very cells.”

Meditation Convinced Cells Scenarios

Book:Quantum Healing (Revised and Updated): Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine

Source: Quantum Healing (Revised and Updated): Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine

“This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, thefilm objectively. However highly we rate the function of the scenario writer--in actual practice it is rated very low--we must recognize that the film is not transposed directly and freely from the mind by means of a docile medium like paint, but must be cut piece-meal out of the lumbering material of the actual visible world.”

World Mind Mean Film Practice Pieces Cutting Painting Materials Essentials Lows Function Paint Rate Mediums Cinema Meals Visible Distinction Opposition Scenarios Docile

Author:Herbert Read

“Take 15 minutes daily, thinking of pleasant scenarios regarding your body, with the sole intent of enjoying your body and appreciating its strength and stamina and flexibility and beauty. When you visualize for the joy of visualizing rather than with the intention of correcting some deficiency, your thoughts are more pure and, therefore, more powerful. When you visualize to overcome something that is wrong, your thoughts are diluted with the "lackful" side of the equation. In time, your physical condition will acquiesce to your dominant thoughts.”

“So, I installed a CCTV system to tape what's going on inside my mind. Thousands of hours of drama, confusion, discussion, huge special effects and futuristic scenarios. Also a lot of chatter, drama and suspense. Is like to go to the movies for free, every day. The CCTV technology used is the SSM-X45. Whose initials stand for: Sit down, Shut up and Meditate (X45 is just to sound more hi-tech)”

Mind Used Sound Hours Technology Meditation Special Effects Huge Drama Confusion Suspense Discussion Movie Tape Shut Up Initials Scenarios Chatter Special Effects Futuristic

Author:Marcelo Goianira

“I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of privacy threat...One reason is that these scenarios seem to assume that there will be large, monolithic bureaucracies...that are capable of harnessing computers for one-way surveillance of an unsuspecting populace. I've come to feel that computation just doesn't work that way. Being afraid of monolithic organizations especially when they have computers, is like being afraid of really big gorillas especially when they are on fire.”

“For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.”

Knows Jobs Perfect Five Four Months Six Six Months Scenarios

Author:Salma Hayek

“Only in a true life or death scenario can you have mental clearness to know that you cannot feel guilty for surviving.”

Knows Life Feels Guilty Surviving Scenarios True Life Life Or Death Clearness

Author:George Zimmerman

“If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.”

Ifs Knows Wells War Names Peace Manage Compromise Agreement Lasting Scenarios

Author:Francois Hollande

“That's the magic of moviemaking. You clearly identify one scenario with the other, and it's a completely different experience.”

Different Magic Scenarios Different Experiences

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“One of the things when you write, well the way I write, is that you are writing your scenario and there are different roads that become available that the characters could go down. Screenwriters will have a habit of putting road blocks up against some of those roads because basically they can't afford to have their characters go down there because they think they are writing a movie or trying to sell a script or something like that. I have never put that kind of imposition on my characters. Wherever they go I follow.”

Thinking Way Writing Trying Wells Kind Different Character Habit Sells Scripts Available Block Scenarios Screenwriters Imposition Different Roads

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“What is left of the poor? Try to buy a fresh f**king vegetable in West Baltimore. It is a not completely inconceivable scenario in the future, we'll all look like that... Waddling from convenience store to fast food outlet, chewing mindlessly on 99 cent hamburgers.”

Trying Looks Left Poor Kings West Stores Vegetables Cents Outlets Convenience Scenarios Fast Food Hamburgers Baltimore Chewing

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“I went to Paris in 1989 when the Americans didn't quite know what to do with me at first. Now, all those years later, it's kind of the same story. Not the same scenario, but kind of the same story.”

Knows Years Firsts Kind Stories Paris Scenarios

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can write a scenario for the 21st century in either direction. One is that it all goes to hell and that it's truly the dark age.”

Writing Said I Can Age Dark Hell Century 21st Century Hopelessness Halfway Scenarios Dark Ages Tibetan Best Place Lama Rams

Author:Ram Dass

“I've always been introverted and so from a very young age I would play different scenarios in my head and let my imagination run free.”

Different Play Running Age Young Imagination My Imagination Young Age Scenarios Introverted

Author:Matthew Carter

“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.”

Needs Mean Persons Shows Remember Cases Worst Periods Disease Illness Spread Severe Routes Scenarios Preparedness Ebola Airborne Worst Case Scenario Incubation

Author:Margaret Chan

“With different scenarios and different places, I think it's easier for me to get inspired; I'm seeing different things.”

Thinking Different Seeing Easier Inspired Different Things Scenarios Different Place

Author:Alessia Cara

“This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.”

Humans Mean Important Principles Evolution Scenarios Human Society Plausible Futurist

Author:Kevin Kelly

“My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the outcome. This goal was the foundation for success of the business. Peldi, Balsamiq”

Mind Goal Majors Foundation Outcomes Scenarios

Author:Kevin Kelly

“You need to know everything and feel 100 percent safe so that you can live and breathe in a role and so that you feel comfortable taking risks and trying new things and being bold. If you don't feel comfortable, if you're in a scenario that's not conducive for that kind of environment, then that's when you don't do well.”

Ifs Knows Needs Feels Trying Wells Kind Roles Environment Risk Safe Comfortable Percent Breathe New Things Scenarios Taking Risks Trying New Things

Author:Nina Dobrev

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