5 Quotes & Sayings By Michael Marshall

Michael Marshall is a social entrepreneur and writer, who has made it his mission to inspire entrepreneurship in the everyday person. "We each have the power to create our own destiny," he says. "The key is recognizing what you're good at, and learning how to leverage that strength. Then, by harnessing your purpose, your passion, and your vision, you can succeed."

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The body protects itself, and the same happens in the mind. It occurs sluggishly and imperfectly, a bad job done by indifferent craftsmen, but within minutes an accretion of defence mechanisms starts to form around the trauma, blunting its edges, eventually sealing it away inside scar tissue. Like a sliver of glass buried deep in a cut, the event will never go away, and often a movement will cause it to nudge a nerve ending and burn like fire for a while. However much it hurts when that happens, the last thing you want. . Michael Marshall
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Just because we are capable of art didn't what lay in front of him could be dismissed as aberration, that we could take what we admired and fence that off as human, dismissing the rest as monstrous. The same hands committed both. Brains don't undermine the savagery. They made us better at it. Michael Marshall
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The food chain has victims at both ends: even rapists and murderers need someone to look down on, and kid killers will do nicely. Michael Marshall
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It wasn't like the World Trade Center, something vile and astonishing within our own borders, happening to people who'd saved coins of the same currency in their piggybanks when they were children. I knew intellectually that shouldn't make a difference, but it seemed to. Michael Marshall