M Quotes
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“Most development doesn't make it to series. So you want the writer and director to have a really good experience with development because, if it doesn't work out, you want to work with them again. You have to know their work really well, know the drafts really well, and when you give notes, you need to have really thought them through.”
“Most dictators were short, fat, middle-aged and hairless. Besides Danny Devito, there's only me to play them.”
“Most DID patients are rather muted compared to those cases incorrectly assumed to epitomize the condition (Kluft, 1985b). The personalities enact adaptational patterns and strategies that developed in the service of defense and survival. Once this pattern, which disposes of upsetting material and pressures rapidly and efficiently, is established, it may be repeated again and again to cope with both further overwhelming experiences and more mundane developmental and adaptational issues.
Once the DID that developed in order to cope with intolerable childhood circumstances has achieved some degree of secondary autonomy, it becomes increasingly maladaptive.”
Source: Handbook of Dissociation: Theoretical, Empirical, and Clinical Perspectives
“Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet; they are about denial and discipline.”
“Most difficult is the labeling by other people that models are empty-headed bodies. I think if you look for negativity, you can find it anywhere.”
“Most difficult problems become very easy when we learn how to put things into perspective.”
“Most difficult thing in the world, to write a play. Do you know the story of Shaw at the Fabian society? H.G. Welles said "I'm terribly sorry I've missed the last five meetings, I've been terribly busy, I'm engaged in writing a scientific pamphlet on the effects of radioactivity in 1984 and I've produced a novel, and various pieces of science fiction to do, and I've had a bit of personal trouble, and I had my copy to bring out for the newspaper." Shaw leapt up and said, "I've not missed one meeting, and I have written a play!" hardest thing in the world. If it were easy they'd all be at it.”
“Most directors do work in pairs. There's usually some form of this, sometimes it literally comes down to you both show up in the morning and one of you is like, "I'm a little tired and overwhelmed today, so I might need you to just be a little step ahead of me and speak with more confidence because I'm not quite there." So, there's quite a bit of that in other teams.”
“Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.”
“Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.”
“Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.”
“Most directors prefer to direct everything themselves. I thought I could on Lord Of The Rings, but very quickly found out that the sheer scale prevented it.”
“Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. And this is a tricky thing if you write screenplays where women have parts that are equal to or greater than the male part. And I thought, 'Why am I out there looking for directors?'—because you look at a list of directors, it's all boys. It certainly was when I started as a screenwriter. So I thought, 'I'm just gonna become a director and that'll make it easier.'”
“Most disagreements are the result of faulty assumptions.”
“Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.”
Source: Heretics of Dune
“Most discoverers became famous because they traveled the routes that few had before and published their findings first.”
“Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.”
“Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.”
Source: The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking
“Most disease is lifestyle related and preventable”
“Most disease is psychic occult attack.”
“Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.”
Source: Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others
“Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?”
Source: Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)
“Most dissociative parts influence your experience from the inside rather than exert complete control, that is, through passive influence.
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In fact, many parts never take complete control of a person, but are only experienced internally.
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Frequent switching may be a sign of severe stress and inner conflict in most individuals.”
Source: Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists
“Most distinguishable about the idiot, Hedge noted, was their fear of that which was different. Those who feared difference always made a point of finding difference in others in order to feel more secure in their sameness.”
Source: The Speaker for the Trees
“Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.”
Source: Under the Skin
“Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others.”
Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
“Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“Most doctors are uncomfortable with medical conditions that have a psychological basis.”
“Most doctors that I have spoken to about using oxygen during sleep to treat low oxygen levels have warned me not to. They say oxygen makes the lungs lazy.”
“Most dogs, when you hold a leash up, go nuts and run to the door. Crash, on the other hand barely looks up from his spot on the couch. His expression is saying, What the hell are you doing with that thing?”
“Most don't deserve your tears... and the ones that do will never make you cry.”
Source: Table 21
“Most don't enter through a gated entrance as is done at so many other national parks, but through invisible passageways by sea.”
Source: A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip
“Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.”
“Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.”
“Most dreams are also part reality (otherwise we wouldn’t believe them), and reality happens to be a condition that gives you plenty of chances through your life to rise to - no, soar through - the occasion.”
“Most dreams die a slow death. They're conceived in a moment of passion, with the prospect of endless possibility, but often languish and are not pursued with the same heartfelt intensity as when first born. Slowly, subtly, a dream becomes elusive and ephemeral. People who've lost their own dreams become pessimists and cynics. They feel like the time and devotion spent on chasing their dreams were wasted. The emotional scars last forever.”
Source: Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
“Most dreams require the willingness to evolve, and they take a lot of time to manifest. Keep on striving for the best.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“Most DRM solutions diminish the value of the product by either directly restricting a customer's use or by creating uncertainty.”
“Most drugs provide no more overall benefits than placebos.”
“Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.”
“Most ducks have legs like orange spatulas. Those must be lazy swimmers. Mine have thighs like Michael Phelps in the summer of 2008.”
Source: Ducks are the stars of the karaoke bird world
“Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.”
“Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.”
Source: Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
“Most economic histories of the "world" not only omit most extra-European production and exchange (even most of that outside West Europe or even northwest Europe); they neglect the participation of the productive and exchange activities of extra-European countries in the European, not to say world, process of accumulation and development. Moreover, they disregard the part that these productive and exchange relations played in the developing world system.”
Source: World Accumulation 1492-1789
“Most economics that is taught in college and universities today projects itself as a value-neutral science. This claim has always been open to question, but I think it's especially in doubt today.”
“Most economists oppose minimum wage laws, but that never prevents the laws from being written. The living wage movement lives on, not because of any merit, but because it's a popular political move to back anything that "helps the poor.”
Source: Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth
“Most economists would concede that, in theory, government has the tools to smooth the business cycle. The problem is that fiscal policy is not made in theory; it’s made in Congress. For fiscal policy to be a successful antidote to recession, three things must happen: (1) Congress and the president must agree to a plan that contains an appropriate remedy; (2) they must pass their plan in a timely manner; and (3) the prescribed remedy must kick in fast. The likelihood of nailing all three of these requirements is slim. Remarkably, in most postwar recessions, Congress did not pass legislation in response to the downturn until after it had ended. In one particularly egregious example, Congress was still passing legislation in May 1977 to deal with the recession that ended in March 1975.17 At the end of the relatively mild 2001–2002 recession, the New York Times ran the following headline: “Fed Chief Sees Decline Over; House Passes Recovery Bill.” I’m not making this stuff up.
Wheelan, Charles J.. Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (p. 214). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition.”
“Most economists, including me, agree that longevity insurance would make sense for a lot of people.”
“most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.”
“Most educated people are aware that we are the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are somehow the culmination. Our sun, however, is less than halfway through its lifespan. It will not be humans who watch the sun’s demise, 6 billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae.”