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Scott Adams
American
Cartoonist
Born:
Jun 8
,
1957
Better
Life
Me
People
Work
You
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Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Scott Adams
Kindness
Ripple
Logical
Remember
Every
Small
End
Creates
Act
Thing
Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
Scott Adams
People
Believe
Enough
Broke
Features
Normal
Normal People
Fix
Engineers
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
Scott Adams
You
Stupidity
General
General Public
Never
Never Underestimate
Underestimate
Public
There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
Scott Adams
Dangerous
Idiot
Nothing
Resourceful
More
Than
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams
Time
People
Intelligence
Smart
Stupid
Kind
Stupid People
Stupid Questions
Questions
Get
Just
Ask
Then
There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.
Scott Adams
Problems
Few
Suitable
High
Solved
Through
Very
Personal
Cannot
Explosives
Application
Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your freedom.
Scott Adams
Happiness
Buy
Best
Health
Good
Freedom
Good Health
You
Money
Single
Nothing
Way
Best Way
Your
Your Freedom
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
Scott Adams
Problems
Will
Own
Solve
No Problems
Like
Available
Create
Engineers
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
Future
Stupidity
Solar
Will
Focus
Power
Predict
Energy
Harnessing
Unlimited
Only
Clean
Learn
Around
How
Scientists
Source
Truly
Efforts
Flailing
Stop
Convert
Fuel
Planet
Eventually
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
Religion
Better
Nothing
Unlikely
Defines
Willingness
Dating
Pursuit
Principle
Than
Irrational
Behind
Things
Humans
Phenomenally
I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
Scott Adams
Respectfully
Join
Invitation
Hallucination
Decline
Your
People vote based on emotion. Period.
Scott Adams
Vote
People
Emotion
Period
Based
Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.
Scott Adams
Work
Enough
Consultants
Because
Dumb
Your
Company
Credibility
You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles.
Scott Adams
You
Women
Path
Old
Dinner
First
Important
Energy
Punch
Punches
Battles
Tells
Eat
About
Guy
More
Only
Mentally
Argue
He
She
Making
Least
Dollar
Handicapped
Candy
Cents
Your
Even
Why
Four-Year
Resistance
Save
Rotten bosses don't get better. Any strategy that assumes they can is doomed.
Scott Adams
Better
Strategy
Assumes
Bosses
Get
Any
Doomed
Rotten
I get mail; therefore I am.
Scott Adams
Mail
Am
Get
Therefore
I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.'
Scott Adams
You
Sometimes
Sit
Say
Draw
Would
Restaurant
Only
Crowded
Know
Person
Who
If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can't control luck, but you can move from a game with bad odds to one with better odds. You can make it easier for luck to find you. The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game.
Scott Adams
Success
You
Game
Better
Odds
Control
Down
Luck
Easier
Bad
Find
Stay
Drill
Part
Most
Make
Always
Discover
Huge
Huge Part
Any
Move
Story
Success Story
Useful
Useful Thing
Thing
Psychology is the only necessary skill for running for president. Trump knows psychology.
Scott Adams
President
President Trump
Running
Only
Knows
Trump
Psychology
Skill
Necessary
Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.
Scott Adams
Women
Society
Exactly
Exactly The Same
Mentally
Women Are
Handicapped
Same
Children
Reason
Differently
Treated
I've tried lots of things. The reality is, I'm excited by everything on Day 1. And if by Day X things aren't working the way I hoped, I lose my passion. I have not seen the correlation between my passion and my success.
Scott Adams
Success
Day
Reality
Passion
Seen
Lose
Everything
Way
Correlation
Hoped
Tried
Excited
Between
Lots
Working
Things
If you have a reasonable system for pursuing success, it can survive a lot of face-plants along the way. That knowledge makes success seem accessible. If you think successful people have some sort of superpower or special connections, why try?
Scott Adams
Success
Knowledge
You
People
Try
Think
Way
System
Some
Seem
Superpower
Pursuing
Along
Sort
Makes
Accessible
Lot
Survive
Successful
Successful People
Special
Reasonable
Connections
Why
You give anybody a billion dollars, and of course they are passionate. Passion is one of those things like willpower in that there's 'magical thinking' about it. You've got to be careful about 'magical thinking.'
Scott Adams
You
Passion
Thinking
Those
Willpower
Be Careful
About
Magical
Give
Like
Course
Got
Passionate
Dollars
Anybody
Billion
Billion Dollars
Things
Careful
One strategy for getting ahead is being incredibly good at a particular skill; you need to be world-class to stand out for that skill. In my case, I layered fairly average skills together until the combination became special.
Scott Adams
Good
You
Together
Strategy
World-Class
Incredibly
Out
Case
Layered
Combination
Particular
Until
Fairly
Became
Getting
Being
Average
Skill
Skills
Stand
Special
Need
Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams.
Scott Adams
Synergy
Restructuring
Proactive
Form
Teams
The only risk of failure is promotion.
Scott Adams
Failure
Promotion
Risk
Only
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