M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Most people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do, what we react to, and how we feel.”
“Most people don't realize that they feel something is wrong before they think something is wrong.”
“Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.”
“Most people don't realize that when we violate the natural order of things when we pollute the air, when we pollute the water, we are destroying mother nature and that's a violent act. If we don't first and foremost come to some peaceful terms, none of us are going to be able to survive.”
“Most people don't realize the many steps that a pop-up goes through. There are a variety of "Dummies" (the sketch phase of the book). Then finally the pencil "dummy", then the finished art which is like painting pieces of a jig saw puzzle.”
“Most people don't realize this, but you can eat organic, all natural, gluten-free food without telling everyone around you.”
“Most people don't realize turkeys are friendly, they're social, they're loyal, they have emotions.”
“Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles. I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles. People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made. I hope it's of interest to people. One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding.”
“Most people don't relate to and can't generate concern for something they don't encounter personally or feel personally affected by. People have to have the palpable negatives in their lives dissected for them in ways that let them understand the root causes of unhealthy, unhappy conditions in their lives and then be allowed to really see and feel the positive alternatives.”
“Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy.”
Source: How to win friends & influence people
“Most people don't see Hamlet as an old bald guy.”
“Most people don't see that they have options beyond what society tells them to do. That's the biggest problem. They honestly believe that compliance is the shortcut to success.”
“Most people don't see themselves as Democrats or Republicans. They see themselves as Americans.”
“Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'”
Source: Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997
“Most people don't take some things into consideration. When they hear an album, they hear the artist or they hear the lyric or they hear the melody. But they don't really think about the environment in which it was recorded, which is so important. It's that thing that determines what the album sounds like.”
“Most people don't think about plyometrics when they think about powerful strength. But I do lots of them to build mine.”
“Most people don't think, they just rearrange their prejudices.”
“Most people don't understand football is a 12-month job. In the off-season - you can attest this with the people from Joe's - anytime we did a shoot or anything, it had to be after 2:00. Because from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., it's football training - get your body worked on, things like that. Then you go into the organized team activities in the spring, you work with your teammates and that's where your bonding comes from. You mold your cohesiveness.”
“Most people don't understand that at a thought has a frequency - every thought has a frequency. We can measure a thought, so if you're thinking about a thought over and over and over again, or if you're imagining in your mind, having that brand new car, having that money that you need, building that company, finding your soul mate, if you imagine what that looks like your're emitting that frequency on a consistent basis.”
“Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.”
“Most people don't walk around knowing what other people think about them, and I don't think it's healthy to know what faceless strangers who you'll never meet say about you.”
“Most people don't walk around the tools to process pain and fear, that kind of discomfort. In most cases, it's unbearable to look at it, feel it, and/or address it. It's why I'm such a fan of self-help books.”
“Most people don't want to be saved. Besides, if you keep bailing everybody out, they'll never learn to paddle on their own.”
Source: Liesl & Po
“Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way.”
Source: Eve's Apple: A Novel
“Most people don't want to leave their wife and children behind but many people seem to want to take leave of themselves.”
“Most people don't want to work in commercial sex. They have little choice.”
“Most people don't want to work with liars. They'll work with a liar if the liar makes them money and gives them credit, but not if a person's lying extends to not making them money and not giving them credit.”
“Most people don't wear glasses in the U.S., and we're not conditioned to finding men and women who wear glasses sexy. If you need your glasses to see, find a good optometrist who can outfit you with a great frame, thin lenses, and a high-quality anti-reflective coating.”
“Most people don't why they are born or why they die. They have no understanding of the forces in life that pull them and push them to their death and another rebirth in this or another world.”
“Most people dont know that Ill eat anything spicy. A little extra kick is always a good thing!”
“Most people dont think about race as much as I do. They dont have to.”
“Most people don’t care who rules, as long as their lives don’t change.”
Source: The Spellsong War: The Second Book of the Spellsong Cycle
“Most people don’t know how to appreciate the silence. They can’t help talking.”
“Most people don’t question the practice of eating meat. Many of these people care about animals and the environment, some deeply. But for some reason-force of habit, cultural norms, resistance to change-there is a fundamental disconnect whereby these feelings don’t translate into changes of behavior.”
“Most people don’t really want to think independently or make decisions; they’re herd animals with herd instincts to keep to the middle of the group where it’s safest, don’t stand out too much, don’t move too far away from convention, etc. They want to be led and dictated to. But they’re stubborn, mulish animals and they like to think they’re independent and free.”
“Most people doubt online meeting scan work, but they somehow overlook that most in person meetings don't work either.”
“Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.”
“Most people early achieve and later intensify a tendency to process new and disconfirming information so that any original conclusion remains intact. They become people of whom Philip Wylie observed: "You couldn't 't squeeze a dime between what they already know and what they will never learn."”
“Most people eat as if they were fattening themselves for market.”
“Most people end their race here on earth with no products to show for all their time they spent on earth.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.”
“Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, so far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some barbed underbrush of a quagmire when they'd meant to head straight to the ocean.”
“Most people engage in activities that are tension-relieving rather than goal-achieving.”
Source: Mastering Your Time
“Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.”
“Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.”
“Most people enter into relationships with an eye toward what they can get out of them, rather than what they can put into them.”
Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“Most people enter into relationships with an eye toward what they can get out of them, rather than what they can put into them. The purpose of a relationship is to decide what part of yourself you'd like to see "show up," not what part of another you can capture and hold. The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you; but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.”
Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“Most people estimate that accidents & diseases kill people equally . The truth is diseases are 18 times as likely as an accidental death”
Source: Corporate Invisible Selling Behavioural Economics & More
“Most people, even today, tend to think of mass surveillance in terms of content - the actual words they use when they make a phone call or write an email. The unfortunate truth, however, is that the content of our communications is rarely as revealing as its other elements - the unwritten, unspoken information that can expose the broader context and patterns of behavior.”
Source: Permanent Record
“Most people exist in very clouded states of mind. It's sort of like when you're underwater in a big swimming pool and you open your eyes, and you can't see very far and everything is distorted.”