Scott Adams Quotes
If you’re going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don’t win, you’re usually no worse off than if you hadn’t played.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
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As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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When I was in the army, there were four times that I was wounded. I also got more than 30 wounds on my body, and my injuries were ranked on the second rank of invalids. The first rank is the most severe. So, that means that I had lost more than 60 per cent of working capability.
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I'm kind of all over the place, and I need grounding.
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The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are!
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If you’re going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don’t win, you’re usually no worse off than if you hadn’t played.
