Scott Adams Quotes

For our purposes, let’s say a goal is a specific objective that you either achieve or don’t sometime in the future. A system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happines...

Goals are for losers. Your mind isn’t magic. It’s a moist computer you can program. The most important metric to track is your personal energy. Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success. Ha...

How can one part be more important if each part is completely necessary?

I made a list of skills in which I think every adult should gain a working knowledge. I wouldn't expect you to become a master of any, but mastery isn't necessary. Luck has a good chance of finding yo...

I was no longer surprised to find unlocked doorsin the city. Maybe at some subconscious level we don’tbelieve we need protection from our own species.

If you are proven to be right a hundred times in a row,no amount of evidence will convince you that you are mistakenin the hundred-and-first case. You will be seduced byyour own apparent infallibility...

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.

Just remember to keep your eye out for ways to maximize your schedule freedom in the long term.

The most important form of selfishness involves spending time on your fitness, eating right, pursuing your career, and still spending quality time with your family and friends.

The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn tothink of other people as noisy furniture, the sooner you will be happy.

Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free.

Always remember that as long as other people are gullible, there's no limit to what you can achieve.

I would define an asshole as anyone who chooses to make the lives of others less pleasant for reasons that don’t appear productive or necessary.

You can't accommodate a hundred different opinions,and you can't ignore them. All you can do is provide people with theillusion that they participated in the decision. For some reason, that'senough to...