M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Most startups are not just built for the person who is using them. When you do that, every now and then you get really lucky and... are representative of some huge class of people who all want the same thing you do... but very often that just turns into a side project that doesn't go anywhere.”
“Most startups are not nearly focussed enough. They work hard...maybe, but they don't work hard on the right things.”
“Most startups eventually pivot to adjust to what the market is telling them.”
Source: The Art of Startup Fundraising
“Most stick people are black.”
“Most stories are happy, if you end them at the right time.”
“Most stories are not about people
but about life, an addiction like the rest of them
that destroys you even as you love it,
but you love it anyway and can never get enough.”
Source: Winter Solstice
“Most stories are too good to be true. That's what makes them enchanting.”
Source: Escaping from Houdini
“Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europeans really noticed this art. Its discovery then had a strong influence on Braque, Matisse, and Picasso.”
Source: King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
“Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europeans really noticed this art. Its discovery then had a strong influence on Braque, Matisse, and Picasso -- who subsequently kept African art objects in his studio until his death. Cubism was new only for Europeans, for it was partly inspired by specific pieces of African art, some of them from the Pende and Songye peoples, who live in the basin of the Kasai River, one of the Congo's major tributaries.
It was easy to see the distinctive brilliance that so entranced Picasso and his colleagues at their first encounter with this art at an exhibit in Paris in 1907. In these central African sculptures some body parts are exaggerated, some shrunken; eyes project, cheeks sink, mouths disappear, torsos become elongated; eye sockets expand to cover almost the entire face; the human face and figure are broken apart and formed again in new ways and proportions that had previously lain beyond sight of traditional European realism.
The art sprang from cultures that had, among other things, a looser sense than Islam or Christianity of the boundaries between our world and the next, as well as those between the world of humans and the world of beasts. Among the Bolia people of the Congo, for example, a king was chosen by a council of elders; by ancestors, who appeared to him in a dream; and finally by wild animals, who signaled their assent by roaring during a night when the royal candidate was left at a particular spot in the rain forest. Perhaps it was the fluidity of these boundaries that granted central Africa's artists a freedom those in Europe had not yet discovered.”
Source: King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
“Most strong players are completely self-centered.... They are blind to how other people feel or else simply don't care.”
“Most struggles do not arise from failure; they arise from beginnings that were never clearly understood.”
“Most students conceive studying as a burden and not as a regular activity, so the result piled up concepts with just a month remaining for exams. That being said the stress and frustration that comes along is natural. Thankfully we’ve got a walkthrough which will help you create a perfect and efficient study schedule. So let’s get started.
#1 Define your objective
#2 Buffer is important
#3 Avoid long study hours
#4 Productive Breaks
#5 Test yourself
#6 Re-learn
#7 Practice and revision”
“Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have a Dream." And that's it!”
“Most students have thoughts about emigrating to Israel. A significant number go on aliyah. We are proud of our Israel programs, which come at a considerable cost to the university.”
“Most students have very little patience when it comes to the Sheikh. As soon as they observe behavior that they “believe” is improper they start saying all sorts of nasty things in public about the Sheikh and run away. All Sheikhs will “appear” to fail you . . . however, this criticism of the Sheikh is due to your nafs seeking an “easy way out.” Very, very few people are truly willing to do the work necessary to rid themselves of egoic pride. Moreover, as we know, egoic pride can infect the dervish at any point on the path.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.”
“Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of knowledge as a merely illusory asset. As we trace more accurately certain familiar sequences of phenomena we begin to realize how closely these sequences, or laws , as we call them, are hemmed round by still other laws of which we can form no notion. With myself this writing off of illusory assets has gone rather far and the cobweb of supposed knowledge has been pinched (as some one has phrased) into a particularly small pill.”
Source: Presidential Addresses to the Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1911
“Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.”
“Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.”
“Most style is not honest enough.”
Source: How to Write Powerful Prose: An essay by the author of 'Style'
“Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.”
Source: The Family Shakespeare: In One Volume, in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family
“Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.”
“Most success depends on colleagues, on the team. People at the top have large egos, but you must never say 'I': it's always 'we'.”
“Most success is built on hard work and madness.”
Source: Follow Your Bliss: How to Start Living the Life of Your Dreams
“Most success springs from an obstacle or failure.”
“Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.”
“Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.”
Source: Remembered Death
“Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.”
“Most successful businesses in the country were started on a kitchen table. As long as people have needs unmet or problems unsolved, there are business opportunities.”
“Most successful entrepreneurs share their knowledge as a way of giving back. They do not demand compensation. Those who do are usually trying to take advantage of you.”
“Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.”
Source: Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets
“Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.”
“Most successful people began with a small idea, which later evolved into great organizations. Your idea may be the key to making a lasting impact on nations. Never underestimate it.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“Most successful people can identify one minute, one moment, where their lives changed, and it usually occurred in times of adversity.”
“Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their happiness is short-lived.”
“Most successful people move from fear to failure; to faith and then to fruitfulness. That's the trend.”
“Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a year later people won't remember them.”
“Most suffering comes from the failure to adapt and a resistance to change.”
“Most suffering is human-made and avoidable. It's mostly in your head.”
“Most suits made the man. Gideon did things to a three-piece suit that should've been illegal.”
Source: The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day
“Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products.”
“Most surprising is probably that I thought I had experienced most of the low points life has to offer... but you reach new lows when you are hungover changing a nappy and throw up into it.”
“Most survivors are cope-aholics, people who cope with whatever is thrown at them without reliance on others. They do not seek sympathy for their pain and feel undeserving if it is offered. They are especially adverse to sympathy from others.”
Source: Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse
“Most survivors of organized mind control and/or ritual abuse are “polyfragmented”—that is, they have a large number of alter personalities.”
Source: Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
“Most survivors tend to be the care-giver rather than the care-receiver. We tend to be good at being spouses and parents, anticipating our loved ones needs, going the second mile when it came to self sacrifice. But seldom can we ask our loved ones to give to us. We fool ourselves into believing we don’t need much.”
Source: The Right to Innocence: Healing the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Therapeutic 7-Step Self-Help Program for Men and Women, Including How to Choose a Therapist and Find a Support Group
“Most Swiss banks do have a whistleblower program, but they use it to punish those who avail themselves of it.”
“Most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.”
“Most talented with a God given talent for weaving words of heartfelt wonder.”
“Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their places, and the successors are merely men who have learned by application and self-discipline to get full production from an average, normal brain.”
Source: Succeeding With What You Have
“Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying that systems of dominance exist.”