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Things Quotes by 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,…
- You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even…
- The best things in life are silly.
- I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of…
- I rank money higher than social life or meaning because once you have money, those other things are easier to get. For example, you won't…
- One of the great things about being ignorant is that I often think my ideas are original. It's a wonderful feeling. That's why I try…
- Have you ever noticed that things that don’t kill you make you weaker? And great minds don’t think alike. If they did, the patent office…
- Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method is that you…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle