M Quotes
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“Most of us choose to be In denial because lies are much more comforting than the truth. The truth cost us to be accountable ,responsible and we are obliged to do what is right. While with lies we have someone to blame. We can play being victims and continue doing what is wrong knowing someone will take the blame or fall for it. We shift the blame and goal post. We can be hypocrites and have double standards. We choose to fool others and at the end, we end up fooling ourselves.”
“Most of us choose to have no shame anymore. We don’t have Integrity, morals, respect, or principles. We don’t have back bone or something we stand for. Hunger controls us. Hunger for attention , relevance and to trend. Hunger for success, recognition, likes, comments, and engagement. Hunger for being famous or to be rich. Hunger for acceptance and approval. Poverty has made lot of us to do bad shameful things. To support criminals and bad people because we are hoping they would feed our hunger, or we will get a sit at the table.”
“Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.”
“Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.”
“Most of us complain about Congress. We say it's a place that doesn't reflect us; they don't listen to us. Actually, Congress well reflects the American people. It gives us exactly what we ask for.”
“Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between mind and body, feelings and intellect, would be obliterated.”
Source: A Way of Being
“Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to their own life.”
“Most of us could stop doing something that's hindering our passion for Jesus and effectiveness in following him.”
“Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our well-being.”
“Most of us die with our music underplayed...We should try to step out of our comfort zones and do the things we're capable of.”
“Most of us do know we have no immortality. And when you've found a genius, someone who has already purchased his immortality in musical or literary terms, it's maddening.”
“Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.”
Source: What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation
“Most of us do not 'sculpt' our lives. We accept what comes our way, then we gripe about it.”
Source: Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway
“Most of us do not consciously look at movies.”
Source: Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert
“Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in our life.”
“Most of us do not like not being able to see what others see or make sense of something new. We do not like it when things do not come together and fit nicely for us. That is why most popular movies have Hollywood endings. The public prefers a tidy finale. And we especially do not like it when things are contradictory, because then it is much harder to reconcile them (this is particularly true for Westerners). This sense of confusion triggers in a us a feeling of noxious anxiety. It generates tension. So we feel compelled to reduce it, solve it, complete it, reconcile it, make it make sense. And when we do solve these puzzles, there's relief. It feels good. We REALLY like it when things come together.
What I am describing is a very basic human psychological process, captured by the second Gestalt principle. It is what we call the 'press for coherence.' It has been called many different things in psychology: consonance, need for closure, congruity, harmony, need for meaning, the consistency principle. At its core it is the drive to reduce the tension, disorientation, and dissonance that come from complexity, incoherence, and contradiction.
In the 1930s, Bluma Zeigarnik, a student of Lewin's in Berlin, designed a famous study to test the impact of this idea of tension and coherence. Lewin had noticed that waiters in his local cafe seemed to have better recollections of unpaid orders than of those already settled. A lab study was run to examine this phenomenon, and it showed that people tend to remember uncompleted tasks, like half-finished math or word problems, better than completed tasks. This is because the unfinished task triggers a feeling of tension, which gets associated with the task and keeps it lingering in our minds. The completed problems are, well, complete, so we forget them and move on. They later called this the 'Zeigarnik effect,' and it has influenced the study of many things, from advertising campaigns to coping with the suicide of loved ones to dysphoric rumination of past conflicts.”
Source: The Five Percent: Finding Solutions to Seemingly Impossible Conflicts
“Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.”
“Most of us do not understand nuclear fission, but we accept it . . . Why is it so easy to accept manmade miracles and so difficult to accept the miracles of the Bible?”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Most of us do not understand nuclear fission, but we accept it. I don't understand television, but I accept it. I don't understand radio, but every week my voice goes out around the world, and I accept it. Why is it so easy to accept all these man-made miracles and so difficult to accept the miracles of the Bible?”
“Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.”
“Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate.”
Source: Clockwork Angel
“Most of us don't really fear political disagreements with our close friends. We fear not being liked and respected by people we like and respect. Challenging someone's political beliefs can signal (correctly or not) a lack of respect or affection. One way to prevent this from happening is to say something like 'I think you are a great person, and I value our friendship, so when I disagree with you it's because I value your opinion and want to learn more about how you see things.' If someone manages to communicate this idea to me, then I'm probably not going to hesitate to express my real opinions about controversial issues. It also helps if we don't call each other 'stupid,' 'evil,' or 'crazy' when 'I don't quite see it that way; help me understand what you mean' will do just fine.”
Source: We Must Not Be Enemies: Restoring America's Civic Tradition
“Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.”
“Most of us don't have mothers who blazed a trail for us--at least, not all the way. Coming of age before or during the inception of the women's movement, whether as working parents or homemakers, whether married or divorced, our mothers faced conundrums--what should they be? how should they act?--that became our uncertainties.”
“Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.”
“Most of us don't know about happiness until it's over.”
“Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves.”
“Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.”
“Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.”
“Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.”
“Most of us don't want to be outsiders.”
“Most of us don't work out what we want. And most of us end up with lopsided lives as a result.”
Source: The 80/20 Principle
“Most of us dont live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.”
“Most of us eagerly celebrate yet another mega deal, cheering for a founder who landed a venture capital fund and secured a sizeable investment.
Now, let’s pause and think about what that actually means. It signals that our fellow entrepreneur has officially taken on… yes, a liability burden.”
Source: Raise and Rise: Funding Sources for Your Startup in the Era of Digital Transformation & Blockchain
“Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices .”
“Most of us encounter a great deal more Mystery than we are willing to experience. Sometimes knowing life requires us to suspend disbelief, to recognize that all our hard-won knowledge may only be provisional and the world may be quite different than we believe it to be. This can be very stressful, even frightening. But if we are not willing to wonder, we may have to hang up the phone on life.”
“Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.”
“Most of us entered journalism and joined "news organizations" because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”
“Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.”
“Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.”
Source: Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm
“Most of us fail to appreciate the extent to which our behavior is under situational control, because we prefer to believe that is all is internally generated. We wander around cloaked in an illusion of vulnerability, mis-armed with an arrogance of free will and rationality.”
“Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.”
“Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“Most of us fear reaching the end of our life regretting moments when we didn't speak up, say I love you, or say I'm sorry.”
“Most of us feel isolated and paranoid during stressful times. We feel alone in the wilderness.”
Source: Body of Evidence
“Most of us feel on some level like race horses chomping at the bit, pressing at the gate, hoping and praying for someone to open the door and let us run out. We feel so much pent up energy, so much locked up talent. We know in our hearts that we were born to do great things, and we have a deep-seated dread of wasting our lives. But the only person who can free us is ourselves. Most of us know that. We realize that the locked door is our own fear.”
“Most of us fill up our lives and end our boredom with our involvement with other people - people we love, people we hate, people we're afraid of, people we're interested in - and that's what keeps our minds going. So if you're sociopathic and you really have no caring for anybody, there's not much left, only boredom, and the way to relieve that, apparently, is to play a game and make sure that you win.”
“Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.”
Source: All About Love: New Visions
“Most of us float with the river and there are a few people who move the river. Robert DeNiro is definitely one of them.”
“Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go.”