564 Quotes by Scott Adams

Realistically, most people have poor filters for sorting truth from fiction, and there’s no objective way to know if you’re particularly good at it or not. Consider the people who routinely disagree with you. See how confident they look while being dead wrong? That’s exactly how you look to them.

If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I'd be a 400 pound guy.

Success caused passion more than passion caused success.

To be fair to Nietzsche, he probably meant the word 'stronger' to include anything that makes you more capable. I’d ask him to clarify, but ironically he ran out of things that didn't kill him.

If you believe people use reason for the important decision 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.People who study hypnosis see others as moist machines that are simply responding to inputs with programmed outputs. No reasoning is involved beyond eliminating the most absurd options.

The key to career advancement is appearing valuable despite all hard evidence to the contrary. … If you add any actual value to your company today, your career is probably not moving in the right direction. Real work is for people at the bottom who plan to stay there.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public

Losers have goals. Winners have systems.

Of the big five factors in happiness—flexible schedule, imagination, diet, exercise, and sleep—my pick for the most important is exercise.