M Quotes
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“Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.”
“Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs with sensible vehicles and polite political opinions. This is incorrect. If you want to get New England right, just imagine a giant mullet in paint-stained pants and a Red Sox hat being pushed into the back of a cruiser after a bar fight.”
“Most people, when they move, well they just move depending on whatever's around them. At this very moment, as I am writing, Constitution the cat is going by with her tummy dragging close to the floor. This cat has absolutely nothing constructive to do in life and still she is heading toward something, probably an armchair.”
“Most people, when they reach a certain age, let down and talk about what they used to do. Well, who gives a damn about what you used to do? It's what you're doing now.”
“Most people, when they talk fast, they get flat.”
“Most people, whether bull or bear, when they are right, are right for the wrong reason, in my opinion.”
“Most people, without consciously realizing it, absorb a great deal of psychic energy from the people they casually associate with, and even a greater amount from people with whom they have strong emotional connections.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“Most people, you do a TV series, it ends three, four, five years later; it's a relic.”
“Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.”
“Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“Most people...are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can't handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.”
“Most people/musicians hear things differently and what might please one might not please another. One man's meat is another man's poison. Don't be afraid to dig, the most important people/musicians in my life always have. If you do decide to dig, don't always expect to come up with a clean face. It's o.k. The most important lessons to me have been learned by trial and error. All I'm trying to say is "try to find yourself," as I have.”
“Most people’s major life regrets are not about the things they’ve done, but about the things they’ve not done, the goals they never reached, the type of lover or friend or parent they wished they’d been but know they failed to be.”
Source: The Thom Hartmann Reader
“Most people’s religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe.”
“Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.”
“Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely.”
“Most performers reinvent themselves. Madonna, Michael Jackson, P. Diddy. They reinvent themselves into different kinds of images. Elvis Presley was always himself, an original, and he never tried to be anything but that.”
“Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.”
“Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn't forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.”
“Most permaculturists are expert at understanding the relationships between landforms and water harvesting or between soil microorganisms and plant health. But when it comes to our human relationships, we often founder. Nurturing the vegetables in the garden is a lot easier than nurturing our connections to the people who decide where to plant the vegetables and who will water them.”
Source: Sustainable [R]evolution: Permaculture in Ecovillages, Urban Farms, and Communities Worldwide
“Most perpetrators pretend to be victims when their plans or missions have failed.”
“Most personal correspondence of today consists of letters the first half of which are given over to an indexed statement of why the writer hasn't written before, followed by one paragraph of small talk, with the remainder devoted to reasons why it is imperative that the letter be brought to a close.”
Source: Benchley beside himself
“Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. The premature death of millions is primarily traceable to this cause. Even among those who exercise care, it is a common mistake to avoid imaginary, and ignore the real dangers. And what is true of an individual also applies, more or less, to a people as a whole.”
Source: My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography
“Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not that the fault is in their own scanty capability of happiness.”
“Most persons spend their lives stuck in relatively low states of mind. In these states of mind their views of themselves and the world around them are often severely limited.”
“Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.”
Source: The Essential Aristotle
“Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.”
“Most pessimists are blinded by darkness.”
“Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that nobody wanted.”
“Most philosophers cannot last in a marriage because they cannot use the agree-to-disagree method before something that is totally out of their morals.”
“Most philosophies wrap their seekers in a strict belief system. By virtue of what they include, they exclude everything else, especially some vital realizations. Periodically revising our philosophy of life as we live it is, therefore, a critically valuable exercise.”
“Most photographers go and photograph something that they see, that exists, and that somebody else has created - they document it. But fashion photographers have to create what they're going to photograph. We have to go into the thought and build it up, get a girl, get a guy, get a situation, get the house, get the decor. It's the meaning of the word photography: "writing with light."”
“Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.”
“Most photographers work best alone, myself included.”
“Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.”
“Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say that an artist deals with banality. I don't care what the discipline is.”
“Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading.”
Source: Richard Serra, Interviews, Etc., 1970-1980
“Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.”
“Most physicians regard abortion as a stigmatized operation done by people who are otherwise incompetent and can't do anything else.”
“Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.”
“Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.”
“Most pitchers are too smart to manage.”
“Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.”
“Most Pixar films are better than most live action films.”
“Most places in the Midwest, you ski on piles of trash, like retired landfills.”
“Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.”
Source: In One Person: A Novel
“Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.”
“Most plans are critically flawed by their own logic. A failure at any step will ruin everything. That's just basic cause and effect. It's easy for a good plan to fall apart. Therefore, a plan that has no attachment to logic cannot be stopped. The success or failure of any step will have no impact on the macro level.”
Source: 8-Bit Theater
“Most plants taste better when they've had to suffer a little.”