M Quotes
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“Most companies want free enterprise in general because that produces better goods and services and makes people's lives better, but they don't want it in their business. They want protection from competition, they want subsidies, they want the government to pick winners and losers, and they want to be picked as winners, and that's what we're opposing, and that's what drives my whole efforts in policy, and in the political arena.”
“Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service.”
“Most complaints, you know, aren't won or lost on their own merits, but rather on larger issues--politics and the position of the planets.”
Source: Three Plays of the Absurd
“Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down on score paper and still dreams it up in his ear first.”
“Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.”
Source: The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
“Most Conquerors do not fail to reach the top because of a lack of talent or physical prowess or items or titles. At some point... no matter how cold a heart... it cracks. There's nothing that's ever been born of another that is wholly evil, Cain Gregory. Only capacities for either.”
Source: Return of the Tower Conqueror
“Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done”
“Most conservative and progressive talk radio is primarily just that - bloviated opinion and whacky viewer calls.”
“Most conservatives - by which I mean normal people - have little conception of the aggressive and revolutionary force that confronts them. It is a revolutionary force in that it seeks to overturn the existing order, but it differs from the spirit of Marx and Lenin in that it never proclaims itself openly.”
“Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate.”
Source: I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight
“Most conservatives are conservatives because they think they are morally correct.”
“Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. I would like to turn the clock back thousands of years to a time when people lived in small communities and took care of each other.”
“Most conservatives know better than to promote the state funding of art. The result of such funding is the mess that modern art has become. Atonal music is to music what subsidized art is to art. ...The fact that cacophony has reigned almost supreme since 1900 is a testimony to Mises' original observation. Atonal music is to music what socialism is to economics: planned chaos.”
“Most conspiracy theorists dont understand this. But if there really were a CIA plot, no documents would exist.”
“Most consumers are unaware of the ongoing, intense suffering and billions of premature deaths that lurk behind mayonnaise and cream, cold cuts and egg sandwiches.”
Source: Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices
“Most consumers believe that because prices in these industries are state regulated they are protected from the “evils of capitalism.” It is just the opposite, but both the regulators and the companies regulated have powerful incentives to nourish that misbelief. [...] Some people delude themselves into thinking they can manage markets better than market forces can. They try it, but it’s not sustainable. That made me realize that many of the basic things we believed about economics were wrong.”
Source: The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Reflections on Faith, Science, and Economics
“Most contemporary artists are behind the bubble in time. They're making videos that are so incredibly boring compared to a good movie. Or they're making work where I say, "You realize minimal art is 50 or 60 years old?" That's what I tell people to shock them. They just blanch.”
“Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow.”
“Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.”
“Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently make in their daily simple needs of communication; and what part of a novel is not composed of these noises consists of a prose which is no more alive than that of a competent newspaper writer or government official. A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel-reader is not prepared to give.”
“Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.”
“Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.”
“Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesnt mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now youre cooking.”
“Most cooks would not, for example, prepare an important, elaborate, and difficult dish on the back-burner. Neither should we relegate the cultivation and preparation of happiness for a position where it is both hard to reach and difficult to infuse with new ingredients.”
“Most copyrighted books in the last century are not on the internet.”
“Most copyrighted information is not freely available on the internet.”
“Most cornmeal producers dont tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.”
“Most corporate decisions aren't going to meet the test of high validity. But they're going to be way above the low-validity situations that we worry about.”
“Most corporate mission statements are worthless. They consist largely of pious platitudes such as: "We will hold ourselves to the highest standards of professionalism and ethical behavior." They often formulate necessities as objectives; for example, "to achieve sufficient profit." This is like a person saying his mission is to breathe sufficiently.”
Source: Management in Small Doses
“Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.”
“Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.”
“Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.”
Source: Snow Crash
“Most countries choose to have government run the economy.”
“Most countries have only few honest politicians and this is just like having a body with only few good organs functioning!”
“Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for themselves and nothing more. Why? Because of the systems: The markets are not there to go beyond.”
“Most countries want to bring their people together and tear down physical, commercial and cultural barriers. Anyone who proposes separating them is out of line.”
“Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.”
“Most couples get too caught up in the stress of the relationship rather than in the sensuality thereof.”
“Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times.”
“Most courage comes from being too tired and hungry to be afraid anymore.”
Source: Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog
“Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, towards beauty. Vogon ships did not nod towards beauty. They pulled on ski masks and mugged beauty in a dark alley They spat in the eye of beauty and bludgeoned their wait through the notions of aesthetics and aerodynamics. Vogon cruisers did not so much travel through space as defile it and toss it aside.”
Source: And Another Thing...
“Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.”
“Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer.”
Source: The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
“Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the "Aha." Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in - the one that we think is reality.”
“Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea of nature demands that the giver of life should die at the moment of giving.”
Source: The Life of the Bee: Works of Maeterlinck
“Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair.”
Source: Black Beast
“Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.”
“Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.”
“most crimes are connected to hunger. One hunger or another.”
Source: That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story