If you work in the city long enough, it begins to deal with you on a personal level. Streets reveal their moods. Sometimes the signal light loves you. Sometimes they fight you. When you're hunting for a new building, you hope the city is on your side. You have to use a little bit of thinking--you might call it the process of elimination--and you need a little bit of instinct, but not too much of either. If you think too hard, you overshoot your target and end up at the Pier or the Tenderloin. If you relax and let the city help, the destination does all the work for you.
Scott AdamsFor most of my career I did one comic a day, every day, including weekends and holidays.
Scott AdamsPeople are so conditioned to take sides that a balanced analysis looks to them like hatred.
Scott AdamsWhat does it mean to be yourself?โ he asked. โIf it means to do what you think you ought to do, then youโre doing that already. If it means to act like youโre exempt from societyโs influence, thatโs the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to โbe yourselfโ is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe we have no idea how to behave.
Scott Adams