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Top 10 Michael Foley Quotes (2025 Update)

Michael Foley Quote: “However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss – Solitude, Stillness and Silence – and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise.”

1. “However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss – Solitude, Stillness and Silence – and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise.”

— Michael Foley

Michael Foley Quote: “Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing.”

2. “Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing.”

— Michael Foley

Michael Foley Quote: “After a lifetime of engaging in long, passionate discussions I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time trying to convince anyone of anything.”

3. “After a lifetime of engaging in long, passionate discussions I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time trying to convince anyone of anything.”

— Michael Foley

Michael Foley Quote: “Stupidity, selfishness and good health are the three prerequisites of happiness, though if stupidity is lacking the others are useless.”

4. “Stupidity, selfishness and good health are the three prerequisites of happiness, though if stupidity is lacking the others are useless.”

— Michael Foley

Michael Foley Quote: “Day offers two equally necessary sacraments – the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves.”

5. “Day offers two equally necessary sacraments – the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves.”

— Michael Foley

Michael Foley Quote: “Marxists interpreted everything in terms of class; Freudians in terms of childhood; and feminists in terms of gender.”

6. “Marxists interpreted everything in terms of class; Freudians in terms of childhood; and feminists in terms of gender.”

— Michael Foley

Michael Foley Quote: “Desire for power is a kind of greed indulged by the unfulfilled.”

7. “Desire for power is a kind of greed indulged by the unfulfilled.”

— Michael Foley

Michael Foley Quote: “The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions, every human being acquires the intelligence of an Einstein, the imagination of a Shakespeare, and the subtlety of a Jesuit.”

8. “The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions, every human being acquires the intelligence of an Einstein, the imagination of a Shakespeare, and the subtlety of a Jesuit.”

— Michael Foley

Michael Foley Quote: “And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.”

9. “And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.”

— Michael Foley

Michael Foley Quote: “It is not possible to be original by trying to be original – those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new – again more by accident than design.”

10. “It is not possible to be original by trying to be original – those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new – again more by accident than design.”

— Michael Foley

Michael Foley Quote: “94 per cent of us think we do above-average work.”

11. “94 per cent of us think we do above-average work.”

— Michael Foley

Michael Foley Quote: “Snobbery management is as difficult and necessary as anger management.”

12. “Snobbery management is as difficult and necessary as anger management.”

— Michael Foley

Michael Foley Quote: “It may well be that an analysis of figures would reveal a law – the duration of a marriage is inversely proportional to the cost of the wedding. Or, to put it another way, any union celebrated with personalized toasting flutes is doomed.”

13. “It may well be that an analysis of figures would reveal a law – the duration of a marriage is inversely proportional to the cost of the wedding. Or, to put it another way, any union celebrated with personalized toasting flutes is doomed.”

— Michael Foley

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