"Unless you work alone, one of the biggest assaults on your happiness is something called a meeting. A meeting is essentially a group of people staring at visual aids until the electrochemical activity in their brains ceases, at which point decisions are made. It's like being in suspended animation, except that people in suspended animation aren't in severe physical discomfort and praying for death."
React to this quote
More by Scott Adams
See allResonant Thoughts
"I think people have to have some feeling that they have some role in shaping their own future and that they are not just spectators on the of kings, presidents, prime ministers and so on which is on t…"
"Unlike the members of the physical and biological sciences, the economist is asked to explain his work in a manner that is interesting and convincing to a weary listener. Yet there is no reason to bel…"
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"One of our primary tasks is to foster in people a desire to attain lofty social goals, to foster in them id…"
— Leonid Brezhnev"There is often as much independence in not being led, as in not being driven."
— Tryon Edwards"As time goes on, it will become obvious through your practice of the Dharma that hatred toward anyone is a …"
— Dilgo Khyentse"Straightforward preaching spoils the effectiveness of a story. If you can't resist the impulse to improve y…"
— Isaac Asimov"As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else. It's being drawn t…"
— Rick Santorum"growing impulse to escape from the nightmare of peace being dependent upon the contemplation of horrific an…"
— Enoch Powell
Related Thinkers
Related Topics
Deep Dives
- Stephen King on philosophy
- Robert A. Heinlein on philosophy
- Ernest Hemingway on philosophy
- Mark Twain on philosophy
- George Bernard Shaw on philosophy
- Virginia Woolf on Philosophy
- Anton Chekhov on philosophy
- Ursula K. Le Guin on philosophy
- Stephen King on life
- Stephen King on time
- knowledge & Beauty
- knowledge & Change