M Quotes
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“Most people put money in their piggy bank. I buy a goose that lays golden eggs over and over again. That's what an asset is.”
“Most people put off till tomorrow that which they should have done yesterday.”
“Most people put the cart before the horse, which is an interesting way to go through life. They approach everything directly. In Zen we approach everything backwards or inside out.”
“Most people put their childhood away as if it was an old hat. They forget it as if it was a phone number that does not apply anymore. They think about their life as if it was a salami which they are eating slice by slice and then they become grown-ups, but what are they now? Only those who grow up and still remain children are real human beings.”
“Most people put too much emphasis and value on their own family, but when a family is promoting anti-survival ideals, it is actually healthier to hate it. Anyone depending too much on the opinions of others, parents or not, whenever such individuals are deeply insane or ignorant, or both, is absorbing the wrong mindset and creating the foundation of what we know as failure. It is only when you make the wrong rules yours, and never before that, that failure becomes a personal thing. The replication of false paradigms replicates similar experiences in personal finance and relationships, but also in other areas of life.”
“Most people quit because they are worried about what people are saying. Don’t worry about people worry about you. Dr victor Ide-Okoye”
“Most people quit. If you don't quit, if you rewrite, if you keep publishing in fancier places, you will understand that "What's the secret?" is not the question, which is, "Are you having fun?"”
“Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.”
Source: Letters of Wallace Stevens
“Most people recognize me from The Shawshank Redemption, but there is this subculture of people who have collected all 13 episodes of Greg The Bunny. And I'm still close to a number of the creative people, Dan Milano particularly, who created Warren The Ape and Greg The Bunny and all of those characters.”
“Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.”
“Most people regard the primeval forest as a threatening domain of wilderness trails that often lead bewildered hikers to their deaths, nests of poisonous snakes, dens of sharp-toothed predators—a realm where Nature is red of tooth and claw. To Vida, however, the forest is a place of solace and succor where she is welcome because she has knowledge of—and deep respect for—its ways. In her experience, it is civilization, riven by human arrogance and greed and envy, that is, at its worst, a forest of lost souls.”
Source: The Forest of Lost Souls
“Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.”
“Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.”
“Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.”
“Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.”
“Most people's BIG PICTURE focus, is still way too small to understand reality, make intelligent decisions, and take SWIFT Actions, that ENSURE long-term Success.”
“Most people's greatest regret is not living the life they knew they could live.”
Source: Leading From The Gut: 3 Power Principles of Effective Leaders
“Most people’s lives are to the average person not important like, or as important as, their opinions about him or her.”
“Most people’s lives were stories with mysterious endings. Mine was a story with a beginning I could never make sense of. It was like fifty different unrelated strands I couldn’t weave into a solid crystal.”
Source: The Story Peddler
“Most people’s minds are almost always too busy for them to feel their skins being caressed by the wind or the sun.”
“Most people's pasts can be viewed like cleaved water left in the wake of a boat. Hers? It's a tangled weave of spider webs and nightmares, never to make sense.”
Source: The Lighthouse Witches
“Most people sabotage themselves because they aren't mindful in the moment. Let your daily actions be governed by your goals & dreams. Whenever you are making an important decision first ask if it gets you closer to your goals or farther away. If the answer is closer, pull the trigger. If it's farther away make a different choice. Conscious choice making is a critical step in making your dreams a reality.”
“Most people saw her as supremely confident and self assured but beneath that were the doubts.”
“Most people say about graveyards: "Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy." But for me, there's an energy to it that it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it.”
“Most people say I look mean, and because I play so many tough roles and because of my size and my martial arts background, they think I am, but I'm really not.”
“most people say I will be there for you , most people say don't lose hope ,most people say I will always love you in your darkest days, don't be the most people , because they are not there when you need them , they are there when they need you .”
“Most people say that as you get old, you have to give up things. I think you get old because you give up things.”
“Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist, and there are those who said it is the character. They are wrong : it is the willpower.”
“Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”
“Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.”
“Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds.”
Source: The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time
“Most people say they talk to me and I sound older.”
“Most people say they want justice, but they don't really want justice. They want revenge. They want to see the pain spread around equally.”
Source: Under the Eye of God: Trackers, Book One
“Most people say use your head; I say use your heart. It will guide you closer to where you want to be. The head should be following the heart, not the other way around.”
Source: Inner Peace Outer Abundance
“Most people say, "Hell, no. I don't know who you are. This scares me. Like, I'm not interested in this."Another way of looking at these paintings is, these are the guys who said yes.”
“Most people say, "I can't wait to retire so I can play golf," or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.”
“Most people say, "I didn't know you had a personality."”
“Most people say, "Show, don't tell," but I stand by Show and Tell, because when writers put their work out into the world, they're like kids bringing their broken unicorns and chewed-up teddy bears into class in the sad hope that someone else will love them as much as they do.”
“Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.”
“Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.”
“Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.”
“Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided.”
“Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved , rather than that of loving , of one's capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable. In pursuit of this aim they follow several paths. One, which is especially used by men, is to be successful, to be as powerful and rich as the social margin of one's position permits. Another, used especially by women, is to make oneself attractive, by cultivating one's body, dress, etc. .... Many of the ways to make oneself lovable are the same as those used to make oneself successful, to 'win friends and influence people'. As a matter of fact, what most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.”
Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable.”
Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“Most people see what is, and never see what can be.”
“Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.”
“Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.”
Source: In Search of Identity: An Autobiography
“Most people seem to assume that this dramatic surge in imprisonment was due to a corresponding surge in crime, particularly violent crime.”