M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Making the effort is quite a pleasure in itself.”
“Making the effort to improve as a human being is what Coach Lombardi was all about. He was able to see the gap between where we were and what we could become-both as football players and as people. And he felt it was his God-given responsibility to close that gap.”
“Making the extra effort to say thanks in a genuine, personal manner goes a long way. It is pleasurable to do, and it encourages more of the same good behavior.”
“Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success.”
“Making the films is never easy, but actually that aspect of trying to make a better film or to keep the standard high is something that comes organically.”
“Making the final decision to jump was literally “taking a leap of faith.” I didn’t know exactly what was going to happen next, but had decided to have a little faith and trust in the equipment, myself, and the world I had just leaped into.”
Source: Above All Else
“Making the future and the road to the future wealth lies in the youth of the present and future, and rebuilding the nation's institutions based on knowledgeable scientific foundations that require promising human capacities derived from college graduates. Universities are the makers of men, we are proud of their role and of the efforts of their administrators.”
“Making the hard to decision to throw away a once favorite bra is like deleting an ex-friend that repeatedly let you down.”
Source: Write like no one is reading
“Making the jump between knowing and doing is what productivity is all about.”
“Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“MAKING THE LIE MAKE SENSE:
When denial (his or ours) can no longer hold and we finally have to admit to ourselves that we’ve been lied to, we search frantically for ways to keep it from disrupting our lives. So we rationalize. We find “good reasons” to justify his lying, just as he almost always accompanies his confessions with “good reasons” for his lies. He tells us he only lied because…. We tell ourselves he only lied because…. We make excuses for him: The lying wasn’t significant/Everybody lies/He’s only human/I have no right to judge him.
Allowing the lies to register in our consciousness means having to make room for any number of frightening possibilities:
• He’s not the man I thought he was.
• The relationship has spun out of control and I don’t know
what to do
• The relationship may be over.
Most women will do almost anything to avoid having to face these truths. Even if we yell and scream at him when we discover that he’s lied to us, once the dust settles, most of us will opt for the comforting territory of rationalization. In fact, many of us are willing to rewire our senses, short-circuit our instincts and intelligence, and accept the seductive comfort of self-delusion.”
Source: When Your Lover Is a Liar: Healing the Wounds of Deception and Betrayal
“Making the logo twice the size is often a good thing to do, because most advertisements are deficient in brand identification. Showing the clients' faces is also a better stratagem than it may sound, because the public is more interested in personalities than in corporations. Some clients can be projected as human symbols of their own products.”
Source: Confessions of an advertising man
“Making the majors is not as hard as staying there, staying interested day after day. It's like being married. The hardest part is to stay married.”
“making the most of every second, because seconds became minute sand minutes became precious when life could be taken in less than a breath.”
Source: Making Faces
“Making the most of your life is unusual. That's why you need to develop unusual habits to earn outstanding rewards.”
“Making the news anchor resemble a puppet, if the puppeteer sucks at his job.”
Source: U-Day
“Making the playoffs three consecutive seasons is a great accomplishment.”
“Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.”
“Making the right choices in life is actually very simple. Choose what evolves you.”
“Making the right choices on the worlds we explore is going to be our biggest challenge.”
“Making the right decision at the right time is what sets a successful entrepreneur apart from the others.”
Source: Market Research Like a Pro
“Making the sign of the Cross - as we will do during the Blessing - means saying a visible and public "yes" to the One who died and rose for us, to God who in the humility and weakness of his love is the Almighty, stronger than all the power and intelligence of the world.”
“Making the simple complex doesn't take ingenuity. Making the complex simple, now, that's ingenuity!”
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace.”
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”
“Making the solution seem so completely inevitable and obvious, so uncontrived and natural - it's so hard!”
“Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.”
“Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!'”
“Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.”
Source: Relax: New and Selected Poems
“Making the world safe for diversity, is one of the greatest tasks we face in the global era.”
“Making the world safe for hypocrisy.”
“Making the wrong friends is like picking a bouquet of weeds—looks promising at first, but soon you’re sneezing and regretting every choice. These are the pals who convince you that midnight adventures are a great idea until you're explaining to a judge why a shopping cart was found in your backyard. They’re the folks who turn your life into a sitcom where you're the punchline. Remember, choosing friends is like picking a fruit—go for the ones that add sweetness, not a trip to the ER!”
“Making them feel gorgeous and comfortable is my way of making women's lives easier.”
“Making these photographs has often seemed to me like a kind of dance. Often I have danced badly and the world has fallen apart at my feet. But sometimes the dance has gone well and my subject and I have moved together as if with shared purpose.”
“Making things actually does give me a lot of joy. It is the process of creation that keeps me about a bubble and a half over perpetual anxiety.”
“Making things better requires that you understand how people feel in response to what you do.”
Source: Making Virtual Work: How to Build Performance and Relationships
“Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.”
Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo
“Making things easy is hard.”
“Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during the 1970s], so I hope I did all right. Otherwise, it could be the biggest embarrassment of my life. Also, the story is not linear, it's patchy, like a cubist painting, and there is always the possibility it will not hold together, it will fall apart. The tone is part satire, part serious drama, part tragedy, all mixed together, and it has to hit an emotional core. That's also very scary.”
“Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.”
“Making those CDs, signing them, numbering them, packing them. It takes hundreds of hours, but it's worth it because I'm able to do the thing I love.”
“Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.”
“Making time to experience joy is the single most important thing you can do to heal your heart.”
Source: The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, and Soulmates
“Making true love is not about feeling the skin,
It's about feeling the soul without touching.”
“Making two possibilities a reality. Predicting the future of things we all know. Fighting off the diseased programming Of centuries, centuries, centuries, centuries. Science fails to recognise the single most Potent element of human existence. Letting the reigns go to the unfoldings faith, Science has failed our world. Science has failed our mother earth.”
“Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.”
“Making up for lost time?"
"Yes," I say. "A lot of things were stolen from my childhood. Lots of important things. And now I have to get them back."
"In order to keep on living."
I nod. "I have to. People need something like a place they can go back to. There's still time to make it, I think. For me, and for you.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being.”
“Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers
“Making visible what is invisible is the task of nanotechnology.”