Shannon MacMillan quotes

Shannon MacMillan quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“If I can slow it down in my mind, things will be fine.”
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”
“I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true”
“I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.133, Macmillan
“I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.”
“Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.”
“Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.”
“Associate with those who help you believe in yourself.”
“Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.”

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