Scott Adams Quotes

There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it.

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• I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Amazing
  • Dark
  • Horse

• I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Believe
  • May
  • Government

• I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Mother
  • Friend
  • Happiness

• I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Time
  • Different
  • Kids

• I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Important
  • Myself
  • Ego

• I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • World
  • Future
  • Past

• Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Amazing

• People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • People
  • Good
  • Relationship

• When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • America
  • Movies
  • Media

• People find it hard to fit exercise into their working-day life. Nine to five jobs take up most of your day, so it's always difficult. But a little can go a long way. It can literally be 10 or 15 minutes of exercise that can be of real benefit.

  

  Laura Trott
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • You
  • Water
  • Phone

• I've been lucky enough to be too busy for TV because if I'm not, I'll get stuck in front of it.

  

  Eddie Kaye Thomas
  • Enough
  • Lucky
  • Busy

• I realized that for this moment, nothing in the past mattered. Nothing terrible in the future mattered. What mattered was her skin against me, her hand holding me, the perfume of her hair and skin and the warmth of her breath against my chest. This was satori. This was truth.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Truth
  • Future
  • Past

• The sword was odd. The Arab Movement was one: Feisal another (his name means a flashing sword): then there is the excluded notion, Garden of Eden touch: and the division meaning, like the sword in the bed of mixed sleeping, from the Morte d'Arthur. I don't know which was in your mind, but they all came to me - and the sword also means clean-ness, and death.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Garden

• My father has asked me to be the fourth corner at the Joy Luck Club. I am to replace my mother, whose seat at the mah jong table has been empty since she died two months ago. My father thinks she was killed by her own thoughts.

  

  Amy Tan
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• To lead a better life, I need my love to be here. Here, making each day of the year, Changing my life with a wave of her hand. Nobody can deny that there's something there.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Life
  • Hand

• Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
  • Good

• It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

  

  Denis Diderot

• Not only are pasta dishes delicious, but they are also great, easy options for a quick dinner during a busy weekday.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Great

• If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Why
  • Picture
  • Learn

• Coming from the William Morris mailroom as I have, this book is the truth of what I experienced, and it reminded me of all the fun and craziness and fake drama that trained me for this profession. It's hilarious, a bit crazy, and it should make anyone wonder why people put their careers in the hands of these idiotsand remember I'm one of them. If you have a child, make sure he or she reads this before starting at the bottom- anywhere.

  

  Bernie Brillstein
  • People
  • Children
  • Book

• The wonder is not that so many people have sick or battered souls, but that they think they have souls at all.

  

  Nicholas Samstag
  • People
  • Think
  • Souls

• There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it.

  

  Scott Adams
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