Myth Quotes

It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth

You can't create a myth on your own. People do it for you.

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries, one here and one in Europe, national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.

The natural-born investor is a myth.

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

Here I stand and make Both myth and reality in my own way And live the violence of my dream and of my reality.

Elvis Presley... had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

I think there's a myth that people feel, that people of success are never fearful, that we're never challenged, that we have some supernova - no, we're like everybody else.

I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love is preserved.

...the myth of socialism is far stronger than the reality of capitalism. That is because capitalism is not really an ism at all. It is what people do if you leave them alone.

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives.

The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise.

Much of today's psychiatric science is based on wish, myth, and politics.

As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.

Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.

Dont buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.

We are all prone to the myth of the perfect stranger

The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.

To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.

The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

I think a myth is created from truth.

To idolise a person means you don't get to know them, and the idea that you can become one is a myth, and it also means that you don't need to talk to one another because you're the same person.

The myth of the poor Jesus needs to be destroyed, because it's holding people back.

Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.

Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.

Life balance is a myth. It's an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it's about proportion - it's really a work hard/play hard equation.

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.

The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

There is an uninformed myth circulating just now that makes dubstep way too important in the musical universe - don't believe the hype.

Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.