Quotes About Worst-case

Retirement planning is like life insurance. It should be viewed as nothing more than a hedge against the absolute worst-case scenario: in this case, becoming physically incapable of working and needing a reservoir of capital to survive.

Retirement Is Worst-Case-Scenario Insurance. Retirement planning is like life insurance. It should be viewed as nothing more than a hedge against the absolute worst-case scenario: in this case, becoming physically incapable of working and needing a reservoir of capital to survive.

If you have a worry problem, apply the magic formula of Willis H Carrier by doing these three things: Ask yourself, 'What is the worst that can possibly happen?' Prepare to accept it if you have to. Then calmly proceed to improve on the worst.

What can it do in terms of worst-case scenario contingencies?' 'Cause a person to die.' 'Speak English for God's sake. I despise this modern jargon.

When the Washington Post asked Tom Frieden, then head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, what scared him the most, what kept him up at night, he replied, "The biggest concern is always for an influenza pandemic . . . [It] really is the worst-case scenario.

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.

Fear is my mind painstakingly creating the worse-case scenario and then putting it on steroids.

Worst-case scenarios are often low-probability events. They're even less likely to happen if you strategize how to prevent them from happening, and how you'd deal with them if they did.

I am a catastrophizer. I don't simply worry. No. My worry has real ambition. My worry is limitless. My anxiety—even when I don't have capital-A Anxiety—is big enough to go anywhere. I have always found it easy to think of the worst-case scenario and dwell on it.

Quinn no quería dejarse dominar por el pánico. En un esfuerzo por contenerse, trató de imaginar las cosas bajo la peor luz posible. Si veía lo peor, quizá no fuese tan malo como pensaba.

The greenhouse effect never did achieve the worst-case scenarios that the more evangelical environmentalists claimed it would.