Scott Adams

Puzzles

• Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to ___.
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• Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like ___.
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• The main difference between ___ and fraud is that criminals have to pay for their own alcohol.
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• The job isn’t done until you’ve ___ someone for the parts that went wrong.
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• If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the ___ department take a look at it.
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• ___ always brings something valuable with it. I don’t let it leave until I extract that value.
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• If you want success, figure out the price, then ___. It sounds trivial and obvious, but if you unpack the idea it has extraordinary power.
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• The power of day___ is similar to the power of well-made movies that can make you cry or make you laugh.
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• Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of ___ and then blaming others for inadequate results.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Scott Adams?

  • → There are days when you need someone who just wants to be your sunshine and not the air you breathe.
  • → When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.
  • → Wimps take life as it comes; superior people slap life up the side of the head until it gives them turf.
  • → The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to truth.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Scott Adams.

  • → A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.
  • → The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
  • → If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
  • → Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Scott Adams.

  • → Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.
  • → My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.
  • → Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
  • → There’s nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to Scott Adams. Which one?

  • → Never act until you have clearly answered the question: What happens if I do nothing?
  • → I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth.
  • → Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.
  • → Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to Scott Adams?

  • → Even a meaningless life may contain many good breakfasts.
  • → You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
  • → Wimps take life as it comes; superior people slap life up the side of the head until it gives them turf.
  • → Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
  
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• Can you identify the right quote belonging to Scott Adams?

  • → If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
  • → You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
  • → When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.
  • → 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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• Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Scott Adams.

  • → When it comes to skills, quantity often beats quality.
  • → All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
  • → Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.
  • → The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
  
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• One of the following quotations belongs to Scott Adams. Which one?

  • → Success caused passion more than passion caused success.
  • → Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
  • → I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.
  • → I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks but I'm drowning in ellipses.
  
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• Can you guess which one of these belongs to Scott Adams?

  • → Just remember to keep your eye out for ways to maximize your schedule freedom in the long term.
  • → Losers have goals. Winners have systems.
  • → If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.
  • → Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
  
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• Try to identify the quote attributed to Scott Adams.

  • → If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.
  • → I'm crying because out there he's gone, but he's not gone inside me.
  • → Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.
  • → I’ve long seen failure as a tool, not an outcome.
  
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• Looks like Scott Adams is the author of one of these.

  • → Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.
  • → The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to truth.
  • → Hard work is rewarding. Taking credit for other people’s hard work is rewarding and faster.
  • → People who have good arguments use them. People who do not have good arguments try to win by labeling.
  
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• Pick the one quotation belonging to Scott Adams.

  • → Often, what seems like an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.
  • → Keep your expectations tiny you'll go through life not so whiney.
  • → It's funny how easy it is to point out other peoples mistakes and make our own mistakes seem insignificant.
  • → Hard work is rewarding. Taking credit for other people’s hard work is rewarding and faster.
  
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• Which one should be attributed to Scott Adams?

  • → If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
  • → Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.
  • → A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
  • → If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
  
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• Can you identify which quote belongs to Scott Adams?

  • → There is never a need to outrun anything you can outwit.
  • → Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
  • → Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.
  • → People who have good arguments use them. People who do not have good arguments try to win by labeling.
  
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• Select the quote belonging to Scott Adams.

  • → Everyone is the hero of his own life story.
  • → A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
  • → 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.
  • → Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
  
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• Choose which quotation belongs to Scott Adams.

  • → You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
  • → One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
  • → It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.
  • → A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
  
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• Select the quote, which is attributable to Scott Adams.

  • → Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.
  • → There are days when you need someone who just wants to be your sunshine and not the air you breathe.
  • → I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth.
  • → Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain’s limits, not the universe’s.
  
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• Identify the quotation belonging to Scott Adams?

  • → Losers have goals. Winners have systems.
  • → Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.
  • → Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
  • → Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves.
  
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