M Quotes
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“Most people are robots-executors, not very much unlike animals. They are not even aware of the true motives of their behavior. They make the majority among simples, and among vors, and among outs. On the other hand, there is a minority, robots-rulers, who are aware of themselves, of the motives of their actions, and are able to control them to a certain extent. This is the only real freedom available to people.”
Source: The Outside Intervention
“Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman’s bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can’t we be friendly?”
“Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars.”
“Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.”
“Most people are scared of committing with life.
You have to take the reins of your life in your own hands, and direct it to yourself.
You decide how you use your time.”
“Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.”
“Most people are scumbags. Accept it. Let go. Chill out, douchebags.”
“Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.”
“Most people are searching for happiness. They're looking for it. They're trying to find it in someone or something outside of themselves. That's a fundamental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.”
Source: Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition
“Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go fishing with my dad as a kid and always felt bad about yanking these panic-stricken creatures from the water. I stopped eating fish as an adolescent and went vegan at twenty.”
“Most people are shaped to the form of their culture because of the enormous malleability of their original endowment. They are plastic to the moulding force of the society into which they are born. It does not matter whether, with the Northwest Coast, it requires delusions of self-reference, or with our own civilization the amassing of possessions. In any case the great mass of individuals take quite readily the form that is presented to them.”
Source: PATTERNS OF CULTURE
“Most people are sheep and sheep don't eat meat”
Source: Mr. Mercedes
“Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.”
“Most people are shit, it reads. What are you going to do about it?”
Source: The No-Show
“Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Most people are sickly by their forties. They say only 5% of them are actually healthy!”
“Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.”
Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
“Most people are so busy chasing things they don’t have, that they fail to appreciate the things they do.”
Source: Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide
“Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.”
“Most people are so busy living they neglect to take the time to ask why.”
“Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.”
“Most people are so distracted by their thoughts, so identified with the voices in their heads, they no longer feel the aliveness within them. To be unable to feel the life that animates the physical body, the very life that you are, is the greatest deprivation that can happen to you.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they'd probably say yes, she's great, but.”
“Most people are so mind-bogglingly aggravating that it's impossible to overreact to them, even if that means killing yourself.”
Source: The Atlas Moth
“Most people are so stuck in their egos that everything revolves around me, me, and more me. But if you want to be rich in the truest sense of the word, it can't only be about you. It has to include adding value to other people's lives.”
“Most people are subconsciously waiting for some people to be rich, or to appear on TV, before they start considering the idea of considering their advice or ideas.”
“Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.”
“Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.”
“Most people are surprised when they hear my somber figures: we know of 2 million species of plants, animals and microorganisms, and we can give them each a scientific name and a diagnostic description. We know, perhaps generously, more than just a little bit of the anatomy in no more than 10 percent. We have done thorough studies in fewer than one-tenth of 1 percent. And the total number of species on Earth is unknown to the nearest order of magnitude.”
“Most people are taught from an early age on, to conceive of themselves as losers. They are taught that there are a very special few who are eminently successful in life.”
“Most people are telling me I look horrible.”
“Most people are terribly afraid of their own sexuality, and one has to respect another person's sadhana, another person's path.”
“Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to be one of them. Striving for excellence where excellence doesn't matter is the stuff misfits are made of.”
“Most people are too fretful, they worry to much. Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it's time.”
“Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them.”
Source: THE QUEEN'S MUSEUM AND OTHER FANCIFUL TALES
“Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest”
“Most people are tormented by the conflict between their fear of standing out and their desire to be the center of attention.”
“Most people are trying to change the outcomes in their lives, rather than changing themselves as a person. They want to have meaningful, loving and trustworthy relationships, generate more capital, get physically fit or set up a business, without truly putting in the effort to rewire their brains and change their subconscious programming. This is putting the cart before the horse.”
Source: Super Self Care: How to Find Lasting Freedom from Addiction, Toxic Relationships and Dysfunctional Lifestyles
“Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.”
“Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.”
“Most people are under exposed to global assets, including foreign stocks, bonds and currencies.”
“Most people are under the impression that if they know about a subject or an industry they don’t need to understand invisible selling By that logic the guy with the best memory in an industry should be the most successful person in that industry - never happens”
Source: The Invisible Selling Book , Behavioural Economics & More
“Most people are unhappy because they don't see the good things in their life.”
“Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts.”
Source: This Matter of Culture
“Most people are usually unable to enjoy what they are doing, or what they have or are having, when there is no one to envy them.”
“Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren't alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump. Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don't. That's partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible - Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.”
“Most people are weak and frightened, and run from anything which could be upsetting. Most people, also, are takers and not givers.”
“Most people are who they are because of fear. They had changed their character, personality and their being because they fear something or someone.”
“Most people are who they are because of fear. They had changed their character, personality, behavior and their being because they fear something or someone.”