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" I'm a poor artist. Through brute force, I brought myself up to mediocre. I've never taken a writing class, but I can write okay. "
Scott Adams
I Can
Myself
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" You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me. "
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" One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead. "
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" I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing. "
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" My investments have been hurt. "
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" Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. "
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" People vote based on emotion. Period. "
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" I'm primarily just an investor. "
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" I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately. "
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" It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation. "
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" For most people, it's easy to be passionate about things that are working out, and that distorts our impression of the importance of passion. I've been involved in several dozen business ventures over the course of my life, and each one made me excited at the start. You might even call it passion. "
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" We don't always have an accurate view of our own potential. I think most people who are frightened of public speaking and can't imagine they might feel different as a result of training. Don't assume you know how much potential you have. Sometimes the only way to know what you can do is to test yourself. "
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" My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right. "
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" The best things in life are silly. "
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" There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot. "
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" The most important thing when you study hypnosis is that you learn that humans are irrational. Until you understand that, hypnosis is hard to do... For me, it was this great awakening to understand that humans are deeply irrational, and it's probably the greatest influence on me in terms of my writing. "
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" Success is entirely accessible, even if you happen to be a huge screw-up 95 percent of the time. "
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" I had several different bosses during the early years of 'Dilbert.' They were all pretty sure I was mocking someone else. "
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" The only risk of failure is promotion. "
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Failure
" Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel. "
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Focus
" Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams. "
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" Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet. "
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" I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist, but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life. "
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Thought
Myself
" My failed corporate career became the fodder for the 'Dilbert' comic. Once it became clear I would not be climbing any higher on the corporate ladder, it freed me to mock managers without worrying that it would stall my career. Most failures create some sort of unplanned freedom. I took full advantage of mine. "
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Me
Create
Freedom
" The longer you work here, diverse it gets. "
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" One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer. "
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" Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. "
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" You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. "
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" I have an endless stream of suggestions coming in from readers who are in cubicles. That keeps me going. "
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" Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free. "
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" Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. "
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