M Quotes
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“Most of what humans understand about light is nothing, which is not their fault. Humans aren’t supposed to have it all figured out.”
Source: The Cosmos of Amie Martine
“Most of what I create is not planned. I act in the moment, and somehow, it keeps working.”
“Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.”
“Most of what I do is science fiction. Some of the things I do are fantasy. I don't like the labels, they're marketing tools, and I certainly don't worry about them when I'm writing. They are also inhibiting factors; you wind up not getting read by certain people, or not getting sold to certain people because they think they know what you write. You say science fiction and everybody thinks Star Wars or Star Trek.”
“Most of what I have seen, the churches that are growing are the best are those that are nondenominational. But I don't think it's because they are nondenominational. I think that there's a certain method by which they go about reaching out to people that are not as traditional as your mainland churches generally do.”
“Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years.”
“Most of what I know
I've learned from falling,
from placing the brighter side
of my hands against the earth
and pressing until vertical.
The ground has taught me
more about flight
than the sky ever could.”
Source: I'll Fly Away
“Most of what I learned about motherhood and being a woman came from experience, not school books or health class.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error.”
“Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.”
“Most of what I read is for reviewing purposes or related to something I want to write about. It's slightly utilitarian. I definitely miss that sense of being a disinterested reader who's reading purely for the pleasure of imagining his way into emotional situations and vividly realized scenes in nineteenth-century France or late nineteenth-century Russia.”
“Most of what I say is complete truth. My edit button is broken.”
Source: Hourglass
“Most of what I want simply slips away like water flowing through a net, and always what remains are only vague, elusive fragments of images... that sink into countless strata in my mind.”
“Most of what I want to try to do is continue to go places with fiction that I've never gone before, and tell stories I've never told before, and one of the problems you rapidly discover about fans is what fans want is the last thing they liked. They want more of that.”
“Most of what is done I think is to kept secret so the public won't know. The same is true of what Wikileaks exposed.”
“Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”
“Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.”
Source: Midnight’s Children
“Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.”
“Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.”
“Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people's weaknesses. Avoid being one of the mob who indulges in such pastimes. Your life is too short and you have important things to do. Be discriminating about what images and ideas you permit into your mind. If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest. It is the easiest thing in the world to slide imperceptibly into vulgarity. But there's no need for that to happen if you determine not to waste your time and attention on mindless pap.”
Source: The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
“Most of what people consume today can barely be considered food.”
Source: Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics
“Most of what presents itself to us in the marketplace as a product is in truth a web of relationships, between people, yes, but also between ourselves and all the other species on which we still depend. Eating and drinking especially implicate us in the natural world in ways that the industrial economy, with its long and illegible supply chains, would have us forget. The beer in that bottle, I'm reminded as soon as I brew it myself, ultimately comes not from a factory but from nature - from a field of barley snapping in the wind, from a hops vine clambering over a trellis, from a host of invisible microbes feasting on sugars. It took the carefully orchestrated collaboration of three far-flung taxonomic kingdoms - plants, animals, and fungi - to produce that ale. To make it yourself once in a while, to handle the barley and inhale the aroma of hops and yeast, becomes, among other things, a form of observance, a weekend ritual of remembrance.”
Source: Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
“Most of what the founders knew about the Hebraic republic, it must be emphasized, they learned from the Bible. These Americans were well aware that ideas like republicanism found expression in traditions apart from the Hebrew experience, and, indeed, they studied these traditions both ancient and modern.”
“Most of what we acquire materially is found to not be worth what we must pay spiritually.”
“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”
“Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Most of what we call "the metaverse" has been around for quite a long time.
"Metaverse" is just a label we put on different technologies that pre-date Zuckerberg's version of the story.”
“Most of what we do to get people ready to act in situations of encounter consists of drilling these lists into them sufficiently deeply so that they will be evoked quickly at the time of the decision.”
“Most of what we know about human evolution comes from these: the fossilized bones of our ancestors. With their help, we've traced our evolution from small furry creatures to the big-brained beings we've become today. But bones can't tell us everything.”
“Most of what we know about sales comes from a world of information asymmetry, where for a very long time sellers had more information than buyers. That meant sellers could hoodwink buyers, especially if buyers did not have a lot of choices or a way to talk back.”
“Most of what we know we don't really know first hand. I've never seen a cancer cell. But I trust this community of experts who have, so I believe that cancer exists. But we trust these experts, and we trust that the experts have a system of checks and balances and self-correction. And we have to insist that experts have certain certifications. They're not perfect. Every once in awhile there's an engine falls off the wing of a plane, or a tax audit happens and you find out your expert made a mistake. But it's a pretty good system. It's the best system we've got.”
“Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly.”
“Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'”
Source: The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle
“Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow.”
Source: Meditations
“Most of what we see are white people.”
“Most of what we see in the universe is dust.”
“Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature.”
“Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.”
“Most of what we think of as distinctively human has occurred in the last 10,000 years in the Holocene - a period in which the Earth was abnormally quiet.”
“Most of what we think will make us happy never really gives us lasting Happiness. Material things, rewards, fame, recognition, money and having a circle of ‘yes’ folks (those who are hanging around you only because they believe they can benefit from you)…these can all make you happy, but only momentarily. They only give you fleeting moments of Happiness. Too much of these, in fact, can leave you feeling drained or suffocated or incomplete. That’s when you start searching for true Happiness. And true Happiness lies only in celebrating what is, in the now. You find it by dropping all your craving, the wants, the desires. It lies in living each moment fully, in gratitude for what you have, with people who complete you, who make you come alive!”
“Most of what you are is attitude.”
“Most of what you do to fulfill God’s purposes will require acts of faith.”
“Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.”
Source: Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
“Most of what you hear about entrepreneurshi p is all wrong. It's not magic; it's not mysterious; and it has nothing to do with genes. It's a discipline and, like any discipline, it can be learned.”
“Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.”
“Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans.”
“Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable.”
“Most of what's around us we take for granted. We ignore it. Appreciation-spending time looking for the good-helps us overcome one of the primary limitations to enjoying the wealth we already have: ignoreance.”
“Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.”
“Most of who we are is our deepest emotions, and someone who cannot feel those emotions in a positive way is never going to understand much about his fellow human beings.”