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Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.

Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

Most individuals on earth are not drawn to the higher light at this time. That doesn't make you superior to anyone else. If you are in the eighth grade you're not better than someone who is in the fourth grade.

Most human beings are completely out of touch with their spiritual nature and with the inner dimensions that exist within themselves. They don't realize each person has a soul, an inner core of light and intelligence as vast as the ten thousand worlds, whose inner nature is emptiness, ecstasy and happiness.

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

Most of society thinks that biography is destiny, that the past equals the future, and of course it does if you live there...but what we really have to remind ourselves is that decision is the ultimate power.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

Most people are fragile. They're fragile in the sense that they're afraid of the unknown, so they cling to each other. They cling to families, traditions, ways of seeing life that protect them from the immensity of the unknown

Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most.

Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.

Most people aren't really happy, but they aren't unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place to be.

Most of us tend to suffer from 'agenda anxiety', the feeling that what we want to say to others is more important than what we think they might want to say to us.

Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves.

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

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

Most people ask questions because they want to know the answer; lawyers are trained never to ask questions unless they already know the answer.

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.

Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all.

Most people don't care much about enlightenment and the truth. They'd rather watch the Home Shopping Network, and maybe that's another kind of truth.

Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to be one of them. Striving for excellence where excellence doesn't matter is the stuff misfits are made of.

Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy.

Most people get an appointment at a beauty parlor... I was committed!

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.

Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.

Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others. I just suggest that you do this weekly instead of yearly.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Most people hate cell phone use on trains; I love cell phone use on trains. What do you want to do, read that report on your lap, or hear about your neighbour's worst date ever?

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll.'

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

Most people's strategy to achieve more is to do more. But when you focus on becoming more, you find that you can achieve more by doing less.

Most people struggle financially because they take advice from sales people, not rich people.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Most people put the cart before the horse, which is an interesting way to go through life. They approach everything directly. In Zen we approach everything backwards or inside out.

Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups.