M Quotes
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“Much of command is the ability to take command.”
Source: The Walking Drum
“Much of contemporary "realism" turns out to be just a variation on good old fashioned fatalism: people feel relieved of responsibility by recourse to the concept of 'nature'. By nature, however, we are born ignorant. Therefore should we try not to learn? Some people produce more than the usual amount of androgens and therefore become excessively aggressive. Does that mean we should freely express violence? We cannot. Submission to genetic programming can become dangerous, because it leaves us helpless.”
Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes open.”
“Much of eating is about customs and habits, and we've developed some unfortunate ones. Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program. You know, the average person will eat up to 50 percent more food when distracted.”
“Much of economics isn't difficult, or rather, the difficulty is in cooking up arguments to "prove" that commonsense conclusions are wrong. The fact is that many commonsense conclusions are quite correct, and it takes a lot of education to get you to believe different.”
“Much of education today focuses on obedience skills rather than critical thinking skills.”
Source: Voice of Reason
“Much of everyday life is filled with opportunities to be distracted. Our possessions... entertainment... cares and anxieties... and even the passionate desire and pursuit of things, some good and not so good, can keep our minds and hearts caught up in a flurry of activity.”
“much of gardening is a struggle against the fecundity of Nature.”
Source: The Glory of the Garden
“Much of God's will for your life is already found in the Bible.”
“Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy.”
“Much of Hamlet is about the precise kind of slippage the mourner experiences: the difference between being and seeming, the uncertainty about how the inner translates into the outer, the sense that one is expected to perform grief palatably. (If you don’t seem sad, people worry; but if you are grief-stricken, people flinch away from your pain.)”
Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir
“Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve, she had decided that instinct was, in fact, the quiet voice of God. Prayers did receive replies, but you had to listen closely and believe in the answer. At twelve, she wrote in her diary: "God doesn't shout; He whispers, and in the whisper is the way.”
Source: Intensity: A Novel
“Much of hip-hop, like comic books, is fantastical by nature, too.”
“Much of his time at Oxford passed by his own account under a dark cloud of listlessness and depression. He was dismayed by the undergraduates' relentless snobbery and unremitting emphasis on money.”
Source: Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
“Much of history is fragmentary and essentially anachronistic – condemning the past for not being more like the present. It has no real interest in the pastness of the past.”
“Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more to the world than was generally believed by our ancestors.”
Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science
“Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.”
Source: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
“Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular authority has led to democracy, human rights, and the protection of the environment. Humanists make no apologies for this. Humanists twist no biblical doctrine to justify such actions.”
“Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.”
“Much of John Kerry's recent surge has come at the expense of Howard Dean. The situation reflected in his hot new bumper sticker, 'Dated Dean, Married Kerry.' It's cute and a lot more tasteful than the alternative version, 'Dated Dean, Married Kerry, Finger-Banged Kucinich.'”
“Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.”
“Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.”
Source: A Natural History of the Senses
“Much of life for many people, even in the heart of the First World, still consists of waiting in a bus shelter with your shopping for a bus that never comes.”
“Much of life hangs in what I call the ‘other side’ of living. These are the areas of our lives we are preoccupied with at night and, yet,
we’re never taught enough about these dominant aspects of human existence when growing up. Partly because of this lack of healthy exposure, we feel ill-equipped, embarrassed and quite helpless when
we personally stumble upon these difficult, challenging grey areas. We often feel swallowed whole by them.”
“Much of life is a game. If played skillfully, with an intelligent and fascinating opponent, it can become almost a dance. One challenges and moves, the other teases and skips away, only to dart forward later and strike a telling blow.”
Source: The Ice Princess
“Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.”
Source: The Social Animal: A Story of How Success Happens
“Much of life must go by without comment.”
“Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.”
“Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.”
“Much of modern liberalism consists of people trying to get revenge on the football players they felt inferior to in school.”
“Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“Much of my crying is for joy and wonder rather than for pain. A trumpet's wailing, a wind's warm breath, the chink of a bell on an errant lamb, the smoke from a candle just spent, first light, twilight, firelight. Everyday beauty. I cry for how life intoxicates. And maybe just a little for how swiftly it runs.”
Source: A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance
“Much of my day can consist of me being lost in thoughts. An equal amount of the day can be lost in scrolling a Facebook feed, mindless and solitary in a room full of people. Now add in the amount of time that I sleep. This is the recipe for a lot of time with little attention.”
“Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.”
“Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.”
“Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly.”
“Much of my inspiration definitely comes from the human experience. I'm really inspired by love like a lot of people are. My art, my childhood, and changes and transitions in life and how they impact me and cause me to write music.”
“Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.”
“Much of my life was a dreary grind in which I was responsible for everything, always. For someone else to take that responsibility, even for a few minutes, was pure pleasure.”
Source: The Book of the Most Precious Substance
“Much of my playing is rhythmic and choppy; I use a lot of double stops. The wah just accents all those stops and chops and brings out the rhythmic aspect that much more.”
“Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.”
“Much of my time is spent teaching the internet what to say to people.”
“Much of my time is taken up by reading, researching and trying out ideas.”
“Much of my work has been done in first person.”
“Much of my work has come from being lazy.”
“Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.”
“Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with everyday observation.”
“Much of my writing has taken the form of a pilgrimage: to sacred places that represent the best of America, to musicians and other artists who represent the best of their art.”
“Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense.”