Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
To prepare for a disaster, practice the worst case scenario. We don’t usually do that.
Always think, 'what's the worst that can happen' and have some kind of strategy to deal with it
The worst case scenario is you really like someone's work, then you meet them and they're a self-involved, entitled douchebag.
What's the worst that could happen?
To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome.
I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves.
Worst case scenario, nothing I do has any value or purpose, but if I can make someone laugh, I'm at least as useful as a piece of quiche would be.
If worse comes to worst, I say clearly - a soldier must follow military orders.
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.
In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.
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.
Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.
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.
My mind goes to tragedy first.
A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.
But since the affairs of men rests still incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall.
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.
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.
If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you’ve lived it twice.
For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.
If the prospect of a bad result gets the heart racing - a plane crash, a terrible disease, a loss of 30 percent of your portfolio - most people will take strong steps to avoid it. They will pay too little attention to a comforting thought, which is that worst-case scenarios usually don't come to fruition.
I'm actually quite pro-technology, but I'm a worrier, so I like to envision worst-case scenarios.
In the military we plan for the worst case, because we have learned that if you do not, you will be surprised.
