Top 100 Mcgill Quotes
#1. My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Sidney Altman
#2. I went to McGill University, but I didn't graduate. They won't graduate me because I didn't have a degree in any one thing. I studied everything and they were like, "You studied too many things, so we can't give you a degree."
Rachelle Lefevre
#3. Today I call upon my Higher Power to help me get through one more day. Help me have gratitude in the face of scarcity, strength in my private struggles and the wisdom to live a good life for myself and others. - Bryant McGill
Bryant McGill
#4. Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in it.
Stephen Leacock
#5. Written with passion, honesty, humor, and a stubborn, rebellious optimism, Dear Marcus is like nothing I've ever read. When a bullet in the back told Jerry McGill not to go on, Jerry went on-smiling.
Shalom Auslander
#6. My real name's McGill. The Jew thing I just do for the homeboys. They all want a pipe-hitting member of the tribe, so to speak.
Saul
#7. HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'
Walter Mosley
#8. Grinnell College MIT McGill University Georgia Institute of Technology
Malcolm Gladwell
#9. My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill.
Rudolph A. Marcus
#10. Don't be afraid to make an ass of yourself. I do it all the time, and look what I got. (Spoken at a graduation ceremony while holding aloft an honorary doctoral degree from McGill University)
William Shatner
#11. I gave my children the kind of dreams they could live by, but dreams are like oceans, Mr. McGill. If they're worth a damn they're bigger than the dreamer, and sometimes, when the one dreaming wants to be as big as what they imagine, the wave pulls'em down.
Walter Mosley
#12. Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing ... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.
William Shatner
#13. During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.
Rudolph A. Marcus
#14. I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
Burt Bacharach
#15. Guess what hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia means? Fear of long words. Isn't that the coolest?" - Kevin McGill in Madhattan Mystery
John J. Bonk
#16. At the fringe edge of advancement it's a war of anarchy and chaos.
Bryant McGill
#17. Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.
Bryant H. McGill
#18. In today's world simple kindness is a revolutionary act.
Bryant McGill
#19. You are unfolding with profound purpose; your purpose is revealing you, to yourself.
Bryant McGill
#20. It is exclusively other people's responsibility to please themselves.
Bryant McGill
#21. Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success.
Bryant McGill
#22. When people are treated like a product, they become obsessed with materialism.
Bryant McGill
#23. One positive thought is something you can accomplish.
Bryant McGill
#24. Life wants you to know that people are more important than things.
Bryant McGill
#25. Love is not about others; love is a practice of self-mastery.
Bryant McGill
#26. Spirituality is like a thin-thin thread, that if delicately followed guides us from darkness to light; from poverty to abundance and from destruction to safety.
Bryant McGill
#27. Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
Bryant H. McGill
#28. The harder you work on yourself the more the external things you couldn't change, will change on their own.
Bryant McGill
#29. It is a high spiritual truth that we create with our judgements.
Bryant McGill
#31. Cooperation is a higher moral principle than competition.
Bryant McGill
#32. Only your surface is disturbed; in your deepness there is stillness and total tranquility.
Bryant McGill
#33. We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.
Bryant McGill
#34. The authentic human has the might of compassion and the creative power to do any manner of good.
Bryant McGill
#35. Live so fully and so brilliantly that your pain diminishes in your aliveness.
Bryant McGill
#36. It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.
Neal Shusterman
#37. Women receive messages from childhood that they may be rewarded and protected for maintaining a childlike comportment such as being demure, obedient, passive and subservient.
Bryant McGill
#38. Staying in an unhealthy relationship can keep a person from finding their own way and moving to the next level of their own path - and that person could even be you.
Bryant McGill
#39. Pain is a breach in the walls of decline and stagnation.
Bryant McGill
#40. The invitation only world is a manifestation of self-realization.
Bryant McGill
#41. You don't always have to teach the the corrective lesson. Sometimes you can teach the lesson of patience and non-engagement.
Bryant McGill
#42. You have to accept that you'll never be good enough for some people. Whether that is going to be your problem or theirs is up to you.
Bryant McGill
#43. Each moment of gratitude awareness reveals the total beauty which surrounds you.
Bryant McGill
#46. You already have and are; your value is intrinsic.
Bryant McGill
#47. Dare to love every person, including yourself.
Bryant McGill
#48. Healthy surrender means allowing yourself to "be" rather than being in a constant state of want.
Bryant McGill
#49. The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.
Bryant McGill
#50. Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
Bryant H. McGill
#51. Blame is very tricky in that it seems like a way out when it is really a form of imprisonment.
Bryant McGill
#52. She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.
Ralph McGill
#53. It is a tremendous gift to simply and truly listen to another.
Bryant McGill
#54. Your total intelligence knows how to accomplish astounding feats. You just need a clear objective. Get clear. You will surprise yourself!
Bryant McGill
#55. Once you let the truth loose it is like setting a fire that you can't stop.
Bryant McGill
#56. Life's pressure is equal to your resistance. Your grief has endless time. Your sadness is bottomless. Your worries are relentless. Your resentment is unquenchable. Your fears are unmovable. Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.
Bryant McGill
#57. You always were beautiful, and you always will be beautiful.
Bryant McGill
#58. While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
Bryant H. McGill
#59. Any aggressive lust lacks balance and is unwholesome and obstructive.
Bryant McGill
#60. Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised of self-centered and narcissistic individuals.
Bryant McGill
#61. Until you stop blaming and become positively self-critical you are not going to move forward.
Bryant McGill
#62. Through spiritual maturity you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities to turn your pain into lessons of service and healing for others.
Bryant McGill
#63. Violence can be a gift. Violence belongs to everyone.
Bryant McGill
#64. Consider the possibility that many of the things you hear and say are utter nonsense and meaningless repetitions of noise.
Bryant McGill
#65. Always choose to trust yourself and your ability to listen.
Bryant McGill
#66. American corporate capitalism is a murder-suicide mission.
Bryant McGill
#67. The public good must come before private interests.
Bryant McGill
#68. Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.
Bryant McGill
#70. It is staggering how completely, fully and fairly life supports you if your negativity will allow the blessings to arrive.
Bryant McGill
#71. Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of "their own people," to the exclusion of other human beings.
Bryant McGill
#72. The invitation to something better is not arriving from any source outside of yourself - ever.
Bryant McGill
#73. Everything in life will attack you if it senses your fear; animals, people - but faithful confidence wards off all manner of evil.
Bryant McGill
#74. When we are at peace with ourselves the total expression of that true peace includes our outer being; our body.
Bryant H. McGill
#75. Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.
Bryant McGill
#76. The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence.
Bryant McGill
#77. Revolution starts in the mind. Question Everything!
Bryant McGill
#78. One person really can make a difference. Each person is the revolution.
Bryant McGill
#79. One of the greatest things you can learn in life is to be compassionate, and true compassion includes compassion for yourself.
Bryant McGill
#80. The total destruction of falsehood allows authentic creative flow to happen.
Bryant McGill
#81. Most mistakes which seem huge in the heat of the moment are quickly forgotten.
Bryant McGill
#82. Playful, positive sarcasm is different from negative mean sarcasm, and many people don't know the difference.
Bryant McGill
#84. Poetry can bridge that gap between what is solid and what is suggested; poetry can pull cogent meaning from the veiled truths outside of reason's grasp.
Bryant McGill
#85. Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.
Bryant H. McGill
#86. Your number one mission in life is to be who you were intended to be.
Bryant McGill
#87. Create and maintain a beautiful environment and surroundings in which to live.
Bryant McGill
#88. I was advocating for world peace, but I was waging a violent war against my own body. I was speaking about poverty and starvation, but I was eating more than my fair share. I was a hypocrite.
Bryant H. McGill
#90. Connection with yourself only comes in moments of silence.
Bryant McGill
#91. Institutions have processes favoring efficiency over loss, and process over people.
Bryant McGill
#92. Begin to see the violence around you; begin to see the violence within you.
Bryant McGill
#93. Do not allow the adumbrations of Aristotelian logic to prevent you from seeing a vast spectrum of truths; the post-Boolean continuum of shades of grey where we spend most of our lives.
Bryant McGill
#94. When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free.
Bryant McGill
#96. Every moment you are open, as a humble student, you are surrounded with infinite possibilities of choice.
Bryant McGill
#98. If you don't believe in God, then the God concept is a great placeholder for everything we don't know, which is exponentially more than we do know.
Bryant McGill
#99. If you have never found yourself, the best place to look is in your loneliness, and rock-bottom is even better.
Bryant McGill
#100. Persistence is the most traveled path to success.
Bryant McGill
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