M Quotes
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“Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.”
Source: Picture of Dorian Gray
“Many people become self-conscious when they communicate. Whether it's writing or speaking, they are consumed by anxiety. Self-consciousness is an impediment to what is required to serve an audience effectively. One's goal must be to achieve audience consciousness. To put oneself in their place, to recognize that the value of any communication arises from how it is received by them, not by what it means to the author. Rather than learning a multiplicity of rules for speaking, for example, I would suggest that a focus on serving one's audience will simplify and clarify everything.”
“Many people begin coming to God once they stop being religious.There's only one master of the heart-Jesus, not religion.”
“Many people believe everything others say, even though what they see with their own eyes, should be enough to tell them otherwise.”
“Many people believe in eliminating gaps and eliminating poverty. They don't realize that in some sense those two things are antithetical. If you were to double everyone's income, or if everyone's income were doubled naturally over the course of time, then you would reduce poverty significantly but you would have also increased the gap.”
“Many people believe in turning the other cheek, especially when it is your cheek.”
Source: The Life of an Ordinary Woman
“Many people believe letters the most personal and revealing form of communication. In them, we expect to find the charmer at his nap, slumped, open-mouthed, profoundly himself without thought for appearances. Yet, this is not quite true. Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In conversation, those uneasy eyes upon you, those lips ready with an emendation before you have begun to speak, are a powerful deterrent to unreality, even to hope.”
Source: The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
“Many people believe that dealing with overweight and obesity is a personal responsibility. To some degree they are right, but it is also a community responsibility. When there are no safe, accessible places for children to play or adults to walk, jog, or ride a bike, that is a community responsibility.”
“Many people believe that decentralization means loss of control. That's simply not true. You can improve control if you look at control as the control of events and not people. Then, the more people you have controlling events - the more people you have that care about controlling the events, the more people you have proactively working to create favorable events - the more control you have within the organization, by definition.”
“Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.”
Source: Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You
“Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It's the other way around.”
“Many people believe that ignorance is bliss because not knowing something can bring happiness. In reality, it often means that avoiding certain things or people in life can lead to happiness!”
“Many people believe that introversion is about being antisocial, and that's really a misperception. Because actually it's just that introverts are differently social. So they would prefer to have a glass of wine with a close friend as opposed to going to a loud party full of strangers.”
“Many people believe that making themselves the key person in their lives is a bad thing. It’s simply good common sense. After all, you’re the only person who’s with you 24/7, until you draw your last breath.”
“Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.”
“Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.”
Source: The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking
“Many people believe that the grains of sand are infinite in multitude ... Others think that although their number is not without limit, no number can ever be named which will be greater than the number of grains of sand. But I shall try to prove to you that among the numbers which I have named there are those which exceed the number of grains in a heap of sand the size not only of the earth, but even of the universe”
“Many people believe that the most frequently washed body part in 2020-21 was the hands, but in reality; it was BRAIN.”
“Many people believe that the most human response to adversity is
to try to avoid it, to maintain as much normalcy as
possible while bypassing misery. Regardless, the most straightforward method to reach our full potential is to live bravely and step outside of our comfort zones.”
Source: Resilience: Surviving a Life Saving Operation is a Silver Lining
“Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.”
“Many people believe that they were made by their parents: 'I didn't ask to be born.' they cry. This is completely wrong. Please try to remember when your were five. If you try then you will remember that this memory had no beginning. It seems as if you can remember living infinitely; that your life didn't begin when you were born but continues without limit.”
“Many people believe that whatever thoughts or ideas come to their mind are always correct. However, there is often more to these thoughts or ideas than what appears on the surface. In my opinion, it's important for individuals to be open to constructive criticism. Feedback is not meant to criticize, but rather to help you improve.”
“Many people believe the names of In 'n Out and Steak 'n Shake perfectly describe the contrast in bedroom techniques between the coast and the heartland.”
Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007
“Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.”
“Many people believe there exists a single person who is their perfect partner or “soul mate.” That may be true, but then I certainly hope that my soul mate does not live in a remote village in India. Suppose that my soul mate was born, like me, in the 1960s. Limiting myself to women who are still alive, and assuming that half of them have already met their soul mates, I have perhaps 200 million potential partners. If I meet two potential partners a day, there’s a 50/50 chance I will find my soul mate within a quarter of a million years.”
Source: Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Economics I Learned from Online Dating
“Many people believe they have found the key to Heaven's gate, not realizing that there is no key hole. It is a barrier upon which you must knock. And I believe that it is by our small and simple acts of kindness that we find the gate left ajar.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Many people believe they know true darkness, but until it has been experienced it cannot be imagined. Without even a flicker of light, the mind begins to play tricks. There is a constant feeling that there is a wall before you, that you must stop. The eyes open as wide as they can, hungry for light. The only thing that helps is to shut them tight.”
Source: The Book of Deacon
“Many people believed that it was Julio Antonio Mella’s oversized ego that motivated him, but others said that he really was sincere and believed that he could bring about significant changes by his demands. There were also a number of female students known for being political radicals, who played an important part in shaping Julio’s life at that time. Rosario Guillauma (Charito) and Sarah Pascual were both close friends of Julio, as well as being fellow travelers.
The overt communist cell at the University of Havana continued to grow dramatically under his leadership and many of the university students became active members of the party. Although, during the time he was at the university he was linked to women radicals and was married to Oliva Zaldivar Freyre. However, following his marriage, it was Tina Modotti, a movie star, model, notorious spy and renowned photographer who became the love of his life!”
“Many people build emotional walls so carefully that they forget the door exists.”
Source: The Art of Being Real: A Journey to Honest Living
“Many people bypass search engines altogether and still find what they're looking for online. These Internet surfers are using direct navigation.”
Source: Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet
“Many people can and have written books, but many have nothing to say.”
“Many people can listen to their cat more intelligently than they can listen to their own despised body. Because they attend to their pet in a cherishing way, it returns their love. Their body, however, may have to let out an earth-shattering scream in order to be heard at all.”
Source: The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation
“Many people can reach for and achieve excellence. To do this consistently is what separates masters and geniuses from everyone else.”
“Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.”
“Many people can't sing their praise or feel proud of themselves in front of others because they are scared to be labelled as 'arrogant' or 'big-headed'. Social acceptance is more important than self-esteem in the 21st century - and that’s not good.”
Source: How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
“Many people can talk for a long period of time. But controlling, you know, your urinary tract is maybe the more difficult issue.”
“Many people can't deal with unanswered questions, which religion exploits by providing answers, even if they are just made up by someone. This is also why we love TV shows and movies that neatly wrap up everything in exactly an hour or two.”
“Many people cannot love themselves because they only love the illusions that they make of themselves. They merely like to wallow around in the narcissistic cocoon delusively constructed with the bits and pieces of their deceptions. ("Being my best friend" )”
“Many people celebrate Christmas as a secular holiday for the most part than a Christian holiday. Obviously, many, many people celebrate it as a Christian holiday. But then there's even more people or there's additional people who celebrate it as a secular holiday as well.”
“Many people choose an abusive, violent, and toxic partner over a kind, innocent, loving, caring, understanding, and supportive partner simply because they do not have a social media account. They don’t mind dating a serial killer, criminal, psychopath, abuser, cheater, social media or when the partner is poor is where they draw the line.”
“Many people choose to be disgustingly rude, mean, and disrespectful, thinking it is acceptable and even cool. Instead of working on themselves, improving their attitude, behavior, manners, and character. They choose the wrong path and remain lost souls, wandering aimlessly through life.”
“Many people choose to complain.
Most choose to hate and only few choose to hustle.
Pick your struggle.”
“Many people choose to remain silent, not because they are unaware of what is wrong, but because speaking the truth could threaten their comfort and the benefits they enjoy. Don’t get confused, just because they allow it to happen, it doesn’t make it right.”
“many people choose, early on, their own truths from the large smorgasbord available. And once they've chosen them, for good reason or no reason, they then proceed rather selectively, wisely gathering whatever will bolster them or at least carry out the color scheme.”
Source: I Didn't Come Here to Argue
“Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.”
“Many people claim to be liberated...it's an endless list! According to "moi", as Ms. Piggy would say, there are currently, on this earth, 12 beings who are self-realized. Eleven are men, one is a woman. Most of them are in the Far East, most of them you've never heard of and probably never will.”
“Many people claim to have bags of knowledge in life. However, they do not use it; except at the airport.”
“Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it’s impossible.”
“Many people come into company full of what they intend to say in it themselves, without the least regard to others; and thus charged up to the muzzle are resolved to let it off at any rate.”
“Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.”