Top 300 Scott Adams Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “It’s smarter to see your big-idea projects as part of a system to improve your energy, contacts, and skills.”

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152. “I have no reason to believe humans evolved with the capability to understand their reality. That capability was not important to survival. When it comes to evolution, any illusion that keeps us alive long enough to procreate is good enough.”

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153. “E-books are impervious to analogy.”

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154. “Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.”

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155. “The grand illusion of life is that our minds have the capacity to understand reality. But human minds didn’t evolve to understand reality. We didn’t need that capability. A clear view of reality wasn’t necessary for our survival. Evolution cares only that you survive long enough to procreate. And that’s a low bar. The result is that each of us is, in effect, living in our own little movie that our brain has cooked up for us to explain our experiences.”

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156. “I can’t memorize names and shake hands at the same time.”

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157. “It is a wondrous human characteristic to be able to slip into and out of idiocy many times a day without noticing the change or accidentally killing innocent bystanders in the process.”

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158. “We humans don’t like uncertainty, so we are attracted to those who offer clarity and simple answers, even if the answers are wrong or incomplete. Master Persuaders can thrive in chaotic environments by offering the clarity people crave. And if an environment is not chaotic already, a skilled persuader who understands both social media and the news business can easily stir the pot to create an advantage through chaos. Candidate Trump was a champion of this method.”

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159. “This happens to me: I have this great idea and then I make the mistake of telling someone else.”

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160. “Happiness has more to do with where you are heading than where you are.”

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161. “Awareness does not come from receiving new information. It comes from rejecting old information.”

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162. “I’ve explained to a number of people my observations about how exercise, diet, and sleep influence mood. The usual reaction is a blank expression followed by a change of topic. No one wants to believe that the formula for happiness is as simple as daydreaming, controlling your schedule, napping, eating right, and being active every day. You’d feel like an idiot for suffering so many unhappy days while not knowing the cure was so accessible.”

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163. “The only way to succeed in the long run is by using a system that bypasses your need for willpower.”

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164. “In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced out elsewhere, because the company can’t use it. The company is organized to get rid of variants.”

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165. “Everything you want out of life is in that huge, bubbling vat of failure. The trick is to get the good stuff out.”

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166. “Success caused passion more than passion caused success.”

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167. “He changed more times than a baby in a beer-drinking contest.”

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168. “Reality is overrated and impossible to understand with any degree of certainty. What you do know for sure is that some ways of looking at the world work better than others. Pick the way that works, even if you don’t know why.”

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169. “The maintenance man is moving the thermostat in our office today. I started talking with him about the.”

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170. “Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.”

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171. “When times are bad, the gloves come off and employers are less nice. People become disposable.”

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172. “Technology: No Place for Wimps!”

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173. “Science is a good thing. News reporters are good things too. But it’s never a good idea to put them in the same room.”

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174. “Let’s form proactive synergy restructuring teams.”

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175. “The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility.”

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176. “Successwise, you’re better off being good at two complementary skills than being excellent at one.”

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177. “I’m not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I’m terribly uncomfortable.”

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178. “Some people fear that technology will become more engaging than live human interactions. That’s silly; technology is already way more interesting than other people.”

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179. “In yesterday’s post, I asked how many of you guys would have sex with a robot if it was indistinguishable from a hot human woman. About 95% of the hetero guys said they would. The other 5% expressed a strong preference for lying.”

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180. “When life gives you lemons... choke on them and die... you stupid lemon eater.”

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181. “A rental car is basically an ashtray on wheels.”

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182. “One thing I can say with complete certainty is that it is a bad idea to trust the majority of experts in any domain in which both complexity and large amounts of money are involved.”

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183. “Recapping my skill set: I have poor art skills, mediocre business skills, good but not great writing talent, and an early knowledge of the Internet. And I have a good but not great sense of humor. I’m like one big mediocre soup. None of my skills are world-class, but when my mediocre skills are combined, they become a powerful market force.”

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184. “My philosophy is that every phone conversation has a loser.”

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185. “Stress is your body’s way of saying you haven’t worked enough unpaid overtime.”

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186. “If our mushrooms make you hallucinate, please inform us immediately so we can overcharge you.”

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187. “I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer’s cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.”

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188. “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.”

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189. “Just because no one has ever gotten better from Spasmodic Dysphonia before doesn’t mean I can’t be the first.”

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190. “No matter how many times I visit New York City, I am always struck by the same thing – a yellow taxicab.”

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191. “The marketing department uses many advanced techniques to match products and buyers in a way that mximizes profits. For example, they give away keychains.”

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192. “If your boss gets drunk and offers to photocopy her posterior, do not helpfully suggest pressing reduce 75%.”

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193. “The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out.”

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194. “I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff.”

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195. “You can change only what people know, not what they do.”

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196. “The most effective way to stop people from trying to persuade me is to say, ‘I’m not interested.’ You should try it. Don’t offer a reason why you aren’t interested. No one can say why a thing holds interest for some and not for others. There’s no argument against a lack of interest.”

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197. “Home is pretty utopian.”

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198. “The human population is 90% gullible, violence-prone dipshits.”

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199. “Whenever you have money, reputations, power, ego, and complexity in play, it is irrational to assume you are seeing objective science.”

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200. “People think they follow advice but they don’t. Humans are only capable of receiving information. They create their own advice. If you seek to influence someone, don’t waste time giving advice. You can change only what people know, not what they do.”

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