Scenario Analysis Quotes & Sayings

With regard to the learned professions, little need be observed; they truly form no distinct interest in society ... [discussing the landed, merchant, and learned classes in legislative assembly]. Will not the man of the learned profession, who will feel a neutrality to the rivalships between the different branches of industry, be likely to prove an impartial arbiter between them, ready to promote either, so far as it shall appear to him conducive to the general interests of society? — Alexander Hamilton

The more time I spent in Finland, the more I started to worry that the reforms sweeping across the United States had the equation backwards. We were trying to reverse engineer a high-performance teaching culture through dazzlingly complex performance evaluations and value-added data analysis. It made sense to reward, train, and dismiss more teachers based on their performance, but that approach assumed that the worst teachers would be replaced with much better ones, and that the mediocre teachers would improve enough to give students the kind of education they deserved. However, there was not much evidence that either scenario was happening in reality. — Amanda Ripley

What would any of us be without choice? But, remember this, fear and faith are two brothers forever entwined, and there's no telling what outcome they will produce. — Emory Skwara

Other networks seek to interfere with the natural process of chaos. Enlightenment is chaos, complete beyond conception — Frederick Lenz

Work or suffering found her listless and dejected, powerles and repining; but gaiety expanded her butterfly's wings, lit up their gold-dust and bright spots, made her flash like a gem, and flush like a flower. — Charlotte Bronte

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative. — Cate Blanchett

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you. — Carol Grace

If I had been a more realistic and reasonable person, if I had not been twenty-one and still fooling myself, I would have said, Wait. — Amy Bloom

A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him. — Robert Burns

I feel like my experience on 'Community' was that I saw just how important that first year is for a series. That is where you work all the pieces out, and that means honing the characters' voices, setting that tone, finding your angle. — Jim Rash

I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself. — Carl Andre