Quotes from Scott Adams

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

Idiocy in the modern age isn't an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It's a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time.

Focus on your diet first and get that right so you have enough energy to want to exercise.

If you believe people use reason for the important decisions in life, you will go through life feeling confused and frustrated that others seem to have bad reasoning skills. The reality is that reason is just one of the drivers of our decisions, and often the smallest one.

You might be familiar with a television show that was called The Dog Whisperer. On the show, Cesar Millan, a dog-training expert, helped people get their seemingly insane dogs under control. Cesar's main trick involved training the humans to control their own emotional states, because dogs can pick up crazy vibes from their owners.

The Knowledge Formula: The More You Know, the More You Can Know

How did people steal before computers? - Dogbert

Pessimism is often a failure of imagination. If you can imagine the future being brighter, it lifts your energy and gooses the chemistry in your body that produces a sensation of happiness.

People are naturally drawn to the things they feel comfortable doing, and comfort is a marker for talent.

Scott: What's the cure? Doctor: There is none. Scott: But that isn't what I heard. The optimist in me translated the gloomy news as Scott, you will be the first person in the world to be cured of spasmodic dysphonia. And I decided that after I cured myself, somehow, someway, I would spread the word to others. I wouldn't be satisfied escaping from my prison of silence. I was planning to escape, free the other inmates, shoot the warden, and burn down the prison.

If something is legal and profitable, it will happen, a lot.

If you think more privacy is always better, that is a case of loserthink. Every situation is different. Sometimes privacy is the problem that prevents the solution.

Men believe value is created by accomplishment, and they have objectives for the women in their lives. If a woman meets the objectives, he assumes she loves him. If she fails to meet the objectives, he will assume she does not love him. The man assumes that if the woman loved him she would have tried harder and he always believes his objectives for her are reasonable.

You should also try to figure out which people are thing people and which ones are people people.

My mother, in the style of the times, told me I could do anything I set my sights on. She said I could be the president, an astronaut, or the next Charles Schulz. I believed her because at that point in my life I hadn't yet noticed the pattern of her deceptions.

Success caused passion more than passion caused success.

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.

If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it.

Sometimes idiots can accomplish wonderful things.

money distorts truth like a hippo in a thong.

People who have good arguments use them. People who do not have good arguments try to win by labeling.

I don't read the news to find truth, as that would be a foolish waste of time.

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

If you want to understand UFOs, reincarnation and God, do not study UFOs, reincarnation and God. Study people.