“First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.”
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American writer and lecturer 1888–1955Related quotes
“What's the worst that can happen? A tidal wave? Glaciers with guns?”
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
As quoted in Trigger Events – How To Find Your Next Customer (2007) by Alen Majer, p. 22
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The Way of the Creator.
Context: But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you ambush yourself in caverns and forests. You solitary one, you go the way to yourself! And your way leads you past yourself and your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself, and a sorcerer and a soothsayer, and a fool, and a doubter, and a reprobate, and a villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes!
““Be yourself” is about the worst advice you can give some people.”
Thomas L. Masson, The Book of Today, (1923), as cited in: Clifton Fadiman (1955) The American treasury, 1455-1955. p. 791.
Variant: The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.
Source: Gone Girl
“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”
The Wondrous Tale of Alroy, pt. 10, ch. 3.
Books
“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”