M Quotes
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“Most of witchcraft is just being present.”
Source: Undead Girl Gang
“Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.”
“Most of you are predominantly nagual. You have trouble with the physical life because you have devoted more of your attention to the mysterious side of your being.”
“Most of you are so young you dont know who I am, and thats good.”
“Most of you didn't think that helping people share books would be a subversive act...Yet the fact is that you have chosen a profession that has become radical.”
“Most of you don’t win because you can’t let go of fear, comfort, laziness, or childhood attachments.”
“Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.”
“Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was it about? Was it her smile? Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists? What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart? That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night.”
“Most of you,' he went on, 'already know how I have
been able to limit the area of investigation in a first
approximation. But one or two of you are not yet in
formed. For you, and to refresh everyone's memory, I'll
go over my calculations again.'
At that point he gave me a roguish and forceful look
demanding my complicity in this adroit falsehood. For
naturally everyone was still in the dark. But by this
simple ruse, each person had the impression of belonging to a minority, of being among 'one or two not yet in formed', felt himself surrounded by a convinced majority, and was eager to be quickly convinced himself.”
Source: Mount Analogue
“Most of you likely recall the old spiritual: Joshua fought the battle of Jericho, where the Hebrews marched around the city walls, blew their horns, and shouted until "the walls came tumblin' down." What a vivid analogy for the breath's power to disintegrate even the strongest muscular armoring we carry in our bodies, a deceptively simple force demolishing barriers we've built over years.”
Source: Crossing the Forbidden Highway: The Untold Story of Orgone, Body Therapy, and Suppressed Emotion
“Most of you live your life on flimsy little songs, not upon the word of God.”
“Most of you probably didn't know that I have a new book out. Some guy put together a collection of my wit and wisdom - or, as he calls it, my accidental wit and wisdom. But I'm kind of proud that my words are already in book form.”
“Most of you were warned, but you chose not to listen. You think you know better and that your story might be different from others. You only want to believe when things are happening to you. You are purposely in denial and delusional because you are benefiting from being ignorant and stubborn. You are mocking and ridiculing others because wrong things are going well for you and you are winning now, but when you lose, you will be crying and acting like a victim of the situation you created. Red flags are there, but you boldly choose to ignore them.”
“Most of you will have heard the maxim "correlation does not imply causation." Just because two variables have a statistical relationship with each other does not mean that one is responsible for the other. For instance, ice cream sales and forest fires are correlated because both occur more often in the summer heat. But there is no causation; you don't light a patch of the Montana brush on fire when you buy a pint of Haagan-Dazs.”
Source: The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
“Most of you won't like this, and I don't blame you at all. It's not meant for you.
[Liner notes to Metal Machine Music]”
“Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you spend your time maximizing those common moments when it doesn't.”
“Most of your desires are not really about yourself. You just picked them up from your social surroundings.”
“Most of your happiness will come from your relationships with others. Handle them with care.”
“Most of your healing journey will be about unlearning the patterns of self-protection that once kept you safe.”
“Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.”
“Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself.”
Source: When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight For Joy
“Most often giving people a ‘penny for their thoughts’ results in a dollar’s worth of trouble.”
“Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.”
“Most often it is in heartache that we love more boldly.”
“Most often, people look at life through a screen of prejudice. They do not see reality as it is; they see it as they want it to be.”
“Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.”
Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
“Most often simplicity defines the true beauty of a great life.”
“Most often the earlier a cult member is approached through an intervention the more likely they are to be responsive.”
“Most often the electorate votes for change.”
“Most often, the "host" has some recognition of other parts of the personality, although a degree of amnesia may be involved. However, occasionally, the "host" does not know about the existence of other dissociative parts of the personality, and loses time when others dominate executive control (Putnam, Guroff, Silberman, Barban, & Post, 1986).
As C. R. Stern (1984) pointed out, it is more often the case that the "host" actively denies (active nonrealization) evidence of the existence of other dissociated parts of the personality rather than dissociative parts "hiding" themselves from the host. This nonrealization may be so severe that when presented with evidence of other dissociative parts, the host may "flee" from treatment.”
Source: The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization
“Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less of it. But, again, that's not my call.”
“Most often the person you would die for would settle for dinner and a movie.”
“Most often, their association was one of silence, but that is a thing of uncommon worth when partaken of in the ease of another.”
Source: Fiddler's Green
“Most often this one shot that we have at life is taking shots at us not because we handed it the gun, but because our actions keep supplying it with ammunition.”
“Most often, those who’ve been in the well are those most likely to pull others out of the well…When Jack Canaday was twelve years old he was once in the well…Now, twenty-one years later, Jack has an opportunity to reach down and help others out of the well…”
Source: Wet Matches
“Most often we forget to live our lives by being too busy passing the time.”
“Most often, what I don’t know will have a vastly greater bearing on my life that what I do know.”
“Most often women want happiness and men want wilderness.”
“Most often you don’t own your own mind; you borrow it from society.”
“Most often, the reason something is "on your mind" is that you want it to be different than it currently is, and yet: you haven't clarified exactly what the intended outcomes is; you haven't decided what the very next physical action step is; and/or you haven't put reminders of the outcome and the action required in a system you trust. That's why it's on your mind.”
Source: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
“Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.”
“Most old cities are now sclerotic machines that dispense known qualities in ever-greater quantities, instead of laboratories of the uncertain. Only the skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.”
“Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others - guests who didn't have the good manners to leave when the party was over.”
“Most old stories don't have anything to do with facts; they're the box that all the facts come in.”
Source: The Woman Who Married a Bear
“Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.”
“Most one-run games are lost, not won.”
“Most opportunities are disguised as problems.”
“Most ordinary mortals, mistake money or visualize money in its physical form - as coins or currency. Thus they begin counting it, hoarding it and hiding it behind faceless numbers and faceless vaults in anonymous places all over the world. They value money for its form or the form of the acquisitions it is able to have - properties, jewellery, clothes, food etc. But the real connoisseur of money knows that its true value is elsewhere. It’s in the simple though propitious word, ‘influence’.”
“Most ordinary people are capable of extraordinary things, but most aren’t willing to do what it takes to get extraordinary results. Me? I’m willing!”
“Most organisations have a serial bully. It never ceases to amaze me how one person's divisive dysfunctional behaviour can permeate the entire organisation like a cancer.”