M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Most jobs are outsourced to the past, they aren't outsourced to India or Mexico or Pakistan or anywhere else.”
“Most jobs today are still structured the same way they were 50 years ago, when most families had someone who could stay at home.”
“Most jokes come from good intentions—and most mistakes, too.”
Source: Masterplan Your Success: Deadline Your Dreams
“Most jokes state a bitter truth.”
“Most journalists are broken down alcoholics.”
“Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places. . . . gloom is their game, the spectacle their passion, normality their nemesis.”
Source: The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World
“Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.”
“Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.”
“Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?”
Source: In Search of King Solomon's Mines, Dyslexic edition
“Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.”
Source: Poems
“Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.”
“Most Kabbalists were theorists who were interested only in pure meditation. But there were so-called 'practical Kabbalists' who tried to apply the power of the Kabbalah in everyday life.”
Source: Snow Crash
“Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.”
“Most kids are raised to do what they're told, to follow rules, to stop asking why. They're taught to stop asking "what if". And this is exactly how we breed generations of human beings who are incapable of being their own persons, who are incapable of invention, who are incapable of innovation, who are incapable of exacting progress and change in our world. Teach your children to ask why, to ask what if, to learn rules but then to form their own rules and to break the ones that do not serve higher purposes. Raise your children to become their own persons and to build doors where none were found before.”
“Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white... They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there's nothing they can do about it because they have no power.”
“Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.”
Source: Bluebeard: A Novel
“Most kids come home from school. They don't go to their TVs first. They go to the Internet. They check their emails, or some blogs, or some sites. Then they go watch TV. Other people are at work all day 9-5 in front of a computer. They see certain clips. We're not going to hide the fact that people use the Internet. We're going to try to be as interactive as possible with our fans. I'm currently on Twitter and Facebook and Flicker and Dig. I'm on all that stuff.”
“Most kids don't give a hoot in hell for brains; they go a penny a pound, and the kid with the high I.Q. who can't play baseball or at least come in third in the local circle jerk is everybody's fifth wheel.”
Source: Rage
“Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderella" and her shoe fetish, "The Three Little Pigs" with their violation of building codes, "Miss Muffet" and her well‐shaped tuffet—all forgotten or discounted.And maybe that's the way it has to be. To survive in the world, you have to give up the fantasies, the make‐believe.”
Source: Nightlife
“Most kids dont get to go their parents wedding.”
“Most kids dream of scoring the perfect goal. I've always dreamed of stopping it.”
“Most kids grow sullen and angry when they’re working through issues, but Thanet mustered up another kind of bull-headed strength. The kind that sees beyond circumstances to what really matters. How could anyone hurt a soul that lovely?”
Source: Glass Girl
“Most kids start playing hockey at the age of five, I was an earlier bloomer. My parents laced up my first pair of skates and put me on the ice at the young age of 2 ½, basically right after I mastered walking.”
“Most kids who don't feel enough love and nurturance carry around this kind of inner rage- a rage that often lasts throughout adulthood. The people who should have cared for them didn't. The lesson to take away: All people are shit. This is why troubled youth walk around with chips on their shoulders and why they are so hard to help.
Early on they learn that people can't be trusted. They often spend the rest of their lives embracing this damaging belief. Seeing the world through shit-coloured glasses, they are hypersensitive to every possible slight or judgement, and they believe anyone friendly or kind must have an ulterior motive.
Despite all this, wounded people desperately want and need love. But, terrified to trust, they constantly do thing to test and sabotage their relationships. This push-pull dance is well-known to anyone who's ever been close to a victim of abuse, neglect, or abandonment. Those who suffer from BPD are hypersensitive to perceived slights from others and can grow notoriously hostile when they feel dissed....
For survivors of abuse, who you trust is a matter of survival. Its black and white. There can be no apologies. There can be no gray. There are no exceptions.-Scared Selfless”
“Most kids who don't feel enough love and nurturance carry around this kind of inner rage- a rage that often lasts throughout adulthood. The people who should have cared for them didn't. The lesson to take away: All people are shit. This is why troubled youth walk around with chips on their shoulders and why they are so hard to help.
Early on they learn that people can't be trusted. They often spend the rest of their lives embracing this damaging belief. Seeing the world through shit-coloured glasses, they are hypersensitive to every possible slight or judgement, and they believe anyone friendly or kind must have an ulterior motive.
Despite all this, wounded people desperately want and need love. But, terrified to trust, they constantly do things to test and sabotage their relationships. This push-pull dance is well-known to anyone who's ever been close to a victim of abuse, neglect, or abandonment. Those who suffer from BPD are hypersensitive to perceived slights from others and can grow notoriously hostile when they feel dissed....
For survivors of abuse, who you trust is a matter of survival. Its black and white. There can be no apologies. There can be no gray. There are no exceptions.-Scared Selfless”
“Most kids who grow up in Alaska and spend a fair degree of time in the wilderness, grow up being pretty self-reliant. You have to be, in order to survive all the animals and cliffs and crevasses and rapids - at some point, your brain has to kick [out of] that childish daydream world and start making I-want-to-live decisions.”
“Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.”
“Most kids would be like, 'My dad's never around.' But I saw it as a positive. He was out there working to provide for me.”
“Most kids would not respect their parents as much as they do, or even at all, if they knew how intellectually undemanding is the role they played in their creation.”
“Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.”
“Most kinds of power require a substantial sacrifice by whoever wants the power. There is an apprenticeship, a discipline lasting many years. Whatever kind of power you want. President of the company. Black belt in karate. Spiritual guru. Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away; it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.
"Now, what is interesting about this process is that, by the time someone has acquired the ability to kill with his bare hands, he has also matured to the point where he won't use it unwisely. So that kind of power has a built-in control. The discipline of getting the power changes you so that you won't abuse it.”
“Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948
“Most knowledge is uncertain, and our ability to fool ourselves is phenomenal. Considering the ease with which we delude ourselves, it is healthy to be sceptical about our certainties.”
Source: FLOWERS OF STARDUST
“Most Korean parents saw themselves as coaches, while American parents tended to act more like cheerleaders.”
Source: The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
“Most labor historians today agree that craft unions created an aristocracy of skilled workers at the expense of the unskilled and semiskilled and, at the same time, retarded the further organization of American industry, thus, in the long run, adversely affecting all workers, skilled as well as unskilled.”
Source: Organized Labor and the Black Worker 1619-1973
“Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.”
“Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.”
“Most lasses like it when a man kills the bugs. Along with reaching high places and giving sexual pleasure, it's one of the few universally popular qualities we have on offer.”
Source: When a Scot Ties the Knot
“Most late bloomers win big at life in their older years. Don't sleep on the unnoticed and the underrated. The wheel of fortune will eventually turn in their favor.”
“Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.”
“Most lawyers are in the job for the money.”
“Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.”
Source: Industrial Conspiracies
“Most lawyers who win a case advise their clients, "We have won," and when justice has frowned upon their cause ... "You have lost.”
“Most lay-ups and two foot jump shots around the goal are missed by not putting the ball up high enough on the backboard”
“Most leaders are indispensable, but to produce a major social change, many ordinary people must also be involved.”
“Most leaders are trying to figure out the right strategy. The best leaders are obsessed with empowering the right people.”
“Most leaders don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.”
“Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people! You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.”
“Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.”
Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
“Most Leadership is Greedership dressed up in sheeps' clothing pretending to care for humanity.”