Bad idea Quote by Scott Adams Download Open image “A good metaphor can make any bad idea sound good.” — Scott Adams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad idea Business
A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question. — Jordan Wolfson Copy Share Image
No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction… — Max Black Copy Share Image
We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. — John Green Copy Share Image
I never think in metaphors or fully make those kind of associations myself. I just lay down a complex situation and hope things arise… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done with it. — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“If you think your odds of solving your problem are bad, don’t rule out the possibility that what is really happening is that you… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it. It sounds trivial and obvious, but if you unpack the idea it has… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
For five hundred dollars, I'll name a subatomic particle after you. Some of my satisfied customers include Arthur C. Quark and George Meson. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don’t let it leave until I extract that value.” — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“On all the important stuff, we are emotional creatures who make decisions first and rationalize them after the fact.” — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“What you rarely see is a stillborn failure that transmogrifies into a stellar success. Small successes can grow into big ones, but failures rarely… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“Because everything you perceive is a metaphor for something your brain is not equipped to fully understand. God is as real as the clothes… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is rotten at every level, and yet it adds up to something extraordinarily useful for society over time. The paradox of capitalism is… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“In the parking lot, she drove and parked in a dark area with no other cars around. She reclined her seat, and listened to… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
By the time I was seventeen, I was on my way to Hollywood and didn't look back. My family is supportive now, but like… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their mother, if… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
Government likes committees... a lot. Committees kill all the really good ideas and generally all the really bad ideas. They produce middle-ground mush. — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
It's not a bad idea to call this Cthulhuism & Yog-Sothothery of mine "The Mythology of Hastur" - although it was really from Machen… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a mother. Watching… — Merrill Markoe Copy Share Image
“Sorry," he apologized. "I didn't mean to inflict my rantings on you, even though we are destined to spend the rest of our lives… — connie willis Copy Share Image
“Jesus. Chicago, Kansas City, Denver, Phoenix, L.A., and Seattle, plus two small towns she'd never heard of in the Gulf Coast region. The unit… — Kay Hooper Copy Share Image
“Civilization is an experiment, a very recent way of life in the human career, and it has a habit of walking into what I… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
Idea-Advocacy Matrix highlights a couple of things: that good ideas need to be "sold" if they are ever going to see the light of… — John Daly Copy Share Image
“It is not a bad idea to get into the habbit of writing one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with… — Isabel Colegate Copy Share Image
“Medical research has revealed that in about one-tenth of the population, the liver processes alcohol differently, releasing a chemical messenger that creates the craving… — Kaylie Jones Copy Share Image
