Quotes 8261 till 8280 of 15856.
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Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
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Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.
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Most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked about the house with a saintly expression.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.
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Most people do not pray; they only beg.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.
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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
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Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch those judgments, such as they are.
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Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.
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Most people travel with a good book, but I also keep my agenda with me; I'll flip through the pages and take a few moments to organize my life a little - I rarely get the time to do this normally.
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Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.
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Most people wander through life, carelessly taking whatever risk crosses their paths without compensation, but never consciously accepting extra risk to pick up the money and other good things lying all around them.
The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 3 -
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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.
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