Magnus Stenbock quotes

  • I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker

  • A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.

  • Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.

  • I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice - over about the story's historical context - that narrator - came from 'Canoa'.

  • I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

  • Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

  • I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

  • Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

  • I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.

  • He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.

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