#scenario

Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#commercial #crashing #ever #here #history

We have some worse scenarios for which we need to prepare as companies. For the moment, we're planning for the worst, and the worst is now, and the car market is down more than 15 percent in France. There is so much uncertainty. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#companies #down #france #market #moment

An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#auditory #instruments #out #players #scenario

We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#experience #frankly #funding #had #haven

It's one of those scenarios where no, I never imagined that I'd be directed in a love scene - not even a love scene because it's kind of a hard-core sex scene because it's kind of just purely played for this carnal venting. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#carnal #directed #even #i #imagined

I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#good #great #great career #having #i

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

#focus #happens #i #like #lived

In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#character #endears #especially #films #get-go

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

#compare #developed #films #find #habit

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. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#actually #anticipating #because #evolution #future