All Quotes

Most people are highly optimistic most of the time.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman

Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
‐‐ Maggie Gyllenhaal

Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

Most people are looking for a challenging, interesting job. I wanted a boring, undemanding job so that I could forget about it at 5, so that I would have something left over at the end of the day to do my own stuff.
‐‐ Jerry Spinelli

Most people are looking for something to give their life meaning.
‐‐ Annette Bening

Most people are motivated by the economy. And if you've lost your job, lost your mortgage, lost your 401(k), you're angry. And if your brother-in-law has lost one of those you're angry still. And when you're angry you take it out on people who are in office. Which is natural.
‐‐ Ed Rendell

Most people are nice and just want to have a chat.
‐‐ Ben Nicholas

Most people are nostalgic in a way that they're fond of the past, but they still are happy that they are where they are now. You know, when you say, 'Oh, high school was this or that,' you don't want to go back. No matter how much you loved high school, you don't want to actually be back in high school. I certainly wouldn't.
‐‐ Jason Reitman

Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.
‐‐ James Altucher

Most people are not shocked that I am occasionally rude to journalists. They are probably amazed I don't punch one in the face.
‐‐ Ken Livingstone

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

Most people are overconfident about their own abilities. That is probably a good thing. But we would be horrified if a physician's aide engaged in heart surgery.
‐‐ Andrew Lo

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.
‐‐ Carlos Santana

Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.
‐‐ Jimmy Carl Black

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.
‐‐ Daryl Hannah

Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear.
‐‐ Christina Baker Kline

Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars.
‐‐ Esther Hicks

Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
‐‐ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do.
‐‐ Kathleen Winsor

Most people are squeamish about saying how much they earn, but in medicine the situation seems especially fraught. Doctors aren't supposed to be in it for the money, and the more concerned a doctor seems to be about making money the more suspicious people become about the care being provided.
‐‐ Atul Gawande

Most people are telling me I look horrible.
‐‐ Melanie Griffith

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

Most people are under exposed to global assets, including foreign stocks, bonds and currencies.
‐‐ Mohamed El-Erian

Most people are used to the T.V. comedy method of one joke every 18 seconds. And that's why it's not funny... There's no time for anything to develop.
‐‐ Ron Shock

Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.
‐‐ Jackson Katz

Most people aren't honest with themselves about money.
‐‐ Hill Harper

Most people aren't these grandstanding heroes.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
‐‐ Arthur Rubinstein

Most people ask me questions based on a previous interview. That's not an interview. It's like they're just saying my quotes back to me.
‐‐ Kirsten Dunst

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
‐‐ Margaret J. Wheatley

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!
‐‐ David Baldacci

Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.
‐‐ Claire Danes

Most people assume that once security software is installed, they're protected. This isn't the case. It's critical that companies be proactive in thinking about security on a long-term basis.
‐‐ Kevin Mitnick

Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.
‐‐ Sheryl Sandberg

Most people believe, mistakenly, that wealth in a human society has something to do with money, but that's not true. Money is simply a medium of exchange. Prosperity in a human society is the accumulation of solutions to human problems that we create for ourselves.
‐‐ Nick Hanauer

Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where on the planet it happens to find itself. But, of course, not every life has the same value for us.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

Most people believe that results matter. The idea that results matter is one that you have to keep letting go of. And most of the time, I believe it.
‐‐ Russell Simmons

Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.
‐‐ Sam Harris

Most people believe that their listening skills are where they need to be, even though they aren't. A study at Wright State University surveyed more than 8,000 people from different verticals, and almost all rated themselves as listening as well as or better than their co-workers. We know intuitively that many of them are wrong.
‐‐ Travis Bradberry

Most people call me Mercy. I like it.
‐‐ Mercedes McCambridge

Most people call my style of dress slovenly, I call it extreme casual. If I didn't have a mother and a sister for the times I do have to get dressed, I would be absolutely lost.
‐‐ Joshua Jackson

Most people can relate to that whole annoying thing when people think they know who you are.
‐‐ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Most people can't see beauty and love. I see our music as medicine.
‐‐ Maurice White

Most people can't see the connection between their own lives and the oceans.
‐‐ Paul Watson

Most people can't talk as fast as I do. I'm not proud of that. That's God-given.
‐‐ Chick Hearn

Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry.
‐‐ Thurston Moore

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
‐‐ Ivan Turgenev

Most people care what people think about them... we all do.
‐‐ Rachel Weisz

Most people catch them breaching from the surface when they're shooting out of the water. I have them breaching from underwater in a 16-time sequence, a shark leaving the water and then reentering the water.
‐‐ Michael Muller