Scott Adams Quotes

The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to think of other people as noisy furniture, the sooner you will be happy. - Wally's Keynote Speech

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• I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Creativity

• Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • Home
  • American

• I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Own

• The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Mind
  • Pleasure
  • Naturally

• Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • You
  • Government
  • Mean

• A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Way
  • Best
  • How

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • Hot Fuzz
  • Barbara Steele

• My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Good
  • Family
  • Road

• People are incredible creatures of habit.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Habit
  • Creatures

• When I first started doing comedy years ago, I used to be the biggest Michael Richards fan. I used to love this dude. He was on a TV show called 'Fridays,' and man, he was tall and lanky - and I was tall and lanky. I love physical comedy, and he was a physical comedian, and I said, 'Man, I love this guy.'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Love
  • Guy
  • Man

• It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Book
  • Easy
  • Author

• The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Human
  • Function
  • Exploration

• My biggest benching was before the 2012 Olympics. It kind of came out of nowhere. I just kind of had one bad half, 45 minutes, and it pretty much cost me my starting spot.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • Cost

• When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.

  

  Beatrice Webb
  • Time
  • World
  • Nature

• I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Kind
  • Actor
  • Robot

• I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Music
  • Know
  • Insomnia

• What other people think of how I play and how I go about things really isn't something I worry about.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • People
  • Worry

• When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.

  

  Lily Rabe
  • Writing
  • Real
  • School

• My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.

  

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura
  • Experience

• I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Time
  • History

• What you want to do is make people talk, start a conversation.

  

  Daniel Kaluuya
  • People

• The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to think of other people as noisy furniture, the sooner you will be happy. - Wally's Keynote Speech

  

  Scott Adams
  • People
  • Happy
  • Source