Scott Adams

Scott Adams

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
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"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
Scott Adams
"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant."
Scott Adams
"“Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. -- Dogbert's Motto”"
Scott Adams
"Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success."
Scott Adams
"In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks."
Scott Adams
"Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that's O. K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems."
Scott Adams
"Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge."
Scott Adams
"If you see voters as rational, you'll be a terrible politician. People are not wired to be rational. Our brains simply evolved to keep us alive. Brains did not evolve to give us truth. Brains merely give us movies in our minds that keeps us sane and motivated. But none of it is rational or true, except maybe sometimes by coincidence."
Scott Adams
"There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours."
Scott Adams
"We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings."
Scott Adams
"Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel."
Scott Adams
"The best things in life are silly."
Scott Adams
"The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you're certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you're gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you."
Scott Adams
"Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion."
Scott Adams
"The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that's already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don't want."
Scott Adams
"Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your freedom."
Scott Adams
"If your current get-rich project fails, take what you learned and try something else. Keep repeating until something lucky happens. The universe has plenty of luck to go around; you just need to keep your hand raised until it's your turn. It helps to see failure as a road and not a wall."
Scott Adams
"Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive."
Scott Adams
"If your goal is to lose 10 pounds, you may wake up each day with failure in mind because the goal is hard to reach, and you are progressing only by small amounts. It takes up all your willpower. I recommend that instead of a goal, you have a system."
Scott Adams
"The only risk of failure is promotion."
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