M Quotes
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“Most people you try to save will just kill you in the end anyway. Maybe just go save yourself.”
Source: I Took a Plane to Die in Denver
“Most people you'd tell "I'm gonna be a musician," they'd say, "you're crazy, you're gonna starve, you're gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you'll never make it, there's too much competition, it's a terrible business," etc. But my chorus teacher in high school said, "you've got what it takes to be a really good professional musician, you should consider it." That was an epiphany for me. So I thought, well, maybe I can help somebody, too.”
“Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.”
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch
“Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.”
Source: The Daughter of Time
“Most people's goals are too low and too slow.”
“Most people's Gods are self-reflective. God just has to be like you. You get concerned, so you assume God must get concerned. You get pissed off, so you assume God must get pissed off. You're attached to things that you create, so you assume that God would be.”
“Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.”
“Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that captures the insight in a kind of wash. The intuition may be real and ripe, fresh with possibilities, but the folk saying is guaranteed to be a cliche, stale and self-contained.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.”
“Most people's journeys haven't been as disjointed as mine.”
“Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups.”
“Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.”
“Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully. All fear is the fear of losing something and thereby becoming diminished and being less. These two movements obscure the fact that Being cannot be given or taken away. Being in its fullness is already within you, Now.”
“Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.”
“Most people's personalities and roles are locked by the time they're nine or 10. I think there's something to that.”
“Most people's strategy to achieve more is to do more. But when you focus on becoming more, you find that you can achieve more by doing less.”
“Most people, 95% of people, are good people. Its the 5% who get seduced by power.”
“Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.”
Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections
“Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.”
Source: Beatrix Potter's Letters
“Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.”
“Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are are then prepared to ignore them until the spring. I am quite sure that a garden doesn't like to be ignored like this. It doesn't like to be covered in dust sheets, as though it were an old room which you had shut up during the winter. Especially since a garden knows how gay and delightful it can be, even in the very frozen heart of the winter, if you only give it a chance.”
“Most people, especially activists, recognize their differences with others rather than what they have in common and that leads to frustration more than persuasion.”
“Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.”
“Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact.”
“Most people, even in simple risky situations, don't behave the way the theory of utility would have them behave.”
Source: The Art and Science of Negotiation
“Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of life. They are wrong, but our education system is such that many people don't know it.”
“Most people, I suspect, still have in their minds an image of America as the great land of college education, unique in the extent to which higher learning is offered to the population at large. That image used to correspond to reality. But these days young Americans are considerably less likely than young people in many other countries to graduate from college. In fact, we have a college graduation rate that's slightly below the average across all advanced economies.”
“Most people, I've noticed, are instinctively harsh to strangers. They expect every approach to be an attack, every question to be an interruption.”
Source: Every Day
“Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“Most people, if they think at all about the dictionary, think of it as this fixed object given to us from on high. It is the thing that legitimizes language and makes language real. You never think that it's actually compiled by living, breathing nerds like me. When you realize that it's compiled by people, it becomes a different thing, a different kind of document.”
“Most people, if they were generous, were so because they thought life was short and that one must make the most of it. Sid Baxter was generous because he knew that life was long. It went on and on even when you had no use for it anymore. It was happiness, not life, that was short, and when it visited - in the form of a fine evening spent talking with a friend - he honoured it.”
Source: The Winter Rose
“Most people, if they're doing really well in their career, often don't have the right intimacy with their partner, or they're doing great in their home life, but their finances are a mess.”
“Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it’s always in the form of someone homeless. “Look at that guy - he’s crazy. He looks dangerous.” Well, he’s on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home...”
“Most people, in committing a suicidal act, are just as muddled as when they do anything important under emotional stress. Carefully planned acts of suicide are as rare as carefully planned acts of homicide.”
“Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.”
“Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.”
“Most people, in the end, really are all on their own.”
Source: Imaginary Girls
“Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.”
“Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant”
Source: Socrates: 100 Quotes on Life, Free Will, and Virtue
“Most people, it seems like they've only got one part of the equation down. Caring for themselves, or caring for someone else. And I'v learned how important it is to have both.”
“Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe when he landed on his Island had nothing to keep him from starvation or anything else. As a matter of fact he had twelve raft loads of supplies that he took off the wrecked ship. He had as much food and furniture as if he had had a delicatessen store and Fifth Avenue outside his hut.”
“Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent, but some episodes of those short years remain clear and brightly coloured like a landscape seen through the wrong end of a telescope.”
Source: Listening Valley
“Most people, most great people even are ammunition. But what you need in your company are barrels. You can only shoot through the number of unique barrels you have, so that's how the velocity of your company improves... is by adding barrels, and then you stock them with ammunition and then you can do a lot.”
“Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."”
“Most people, no matter what they do, they don't think they're a bad person. The place where their actions are coming from is a complicated place and a whole personal history. I definitely think that it helped me to look at the world a little less judgmentally.”
“Most people, of course, spend their lives caring about the wrong things. The worry about South Africa or Nicaragua. They spend so much time finding themselves that they lose their taxicabs. They don't see that what kind of napkin you get at a delicatessen is a matter of much significance in the world today. That's why they don't get linen.”
“Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.”
Source: Life 101: everything we wish we had learned about life in school -- but didn't
“Most people, or at least most of the people that I've come into contact with, would like to be written about.”
“Most people, originally when Google Earth first came out in 2005, they thought, well, what can I do with it? I can figure out where to go on vacation, or I can look at my neighbor's backyard from space. But the point is, you can do so much more.”
“Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.”
Source: Psychology: The Briefer Course