Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.

Terence McKenna

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• I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Past
  • Universe
  • Understand

• The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Life
  • Great
  • Reality

• By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I'm worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Me
  • Universe
  • Prosperity

• Quality is everyone's responsibility.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Quality

• If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • City
  • Responsibility

• I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Book
  • Universe
  • Language

• If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Understanding
  • Fame

• We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Energy
  • Die
  • Universe

• I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Real
  • Family
  • Together

• We lost our minds in the '80s and '90s; we really as a society just felt that everyone could only care about themselves. There was no responsibility to discuss what's going on in your town, your state, your nation. And it was a blast, it was really fun, but it doesn't work.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Society

• I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Family
  • Responsibility

• The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Learning
  • Understanding
  • Content

• No country is perfect, but we have to be honest, and strive to expand freedoms, to broaden democracy. The bottom line is that when citizens cannot exercise their rights, the world has a responsibility to speak out.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Country
  • Perfect

• Yet I have no stylistic nobility. My head aches because my head aches. The universe aches me because my head aches.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Universe

• We felt the universe wuz safe, an' God wuz on his throne.

  

  Sam Walter Foss
  • God
  • Universe

• In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Up
  • Understanding

• I love the old Hollywood glam look: platinum blonde hair, the perfect red lip. It's very Marilyn Monroe and shows a pure feminine beauty.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Perfect
  • Hair
  • Red

• Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about resolving forms, giving edge and essence to things. To see shapes clearly, one outlines them--whether on paper or in the mind. Therefore, Michelangelo, a profoundly cultivated man, called drawing the basis of all knowledge whatsoever.

  

  Alexandra Ripley
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Knowledge

• Hackers are becoming more sophisticated in conjuring up new ways to hijack your system by exploiting technical vulnerabilities or human nature. Don't become the next victim of unscrupulous cyberspace intruders.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • Up
  • Nature

• The spring, summer, is quite a hectic time for people in their lives, but then it comes to autumn, and to winter, and you can't but help think back to the year that was, and then hopefully looking forward to the year that is approaching.

  

  Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
  • People
  • Time
  • Help

• Make money. Make more money. Make others produce so as to make money... However you get them in or why, just do it.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Money
  • Why
  • Produce

• You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Responsibility
  • Universe
  • Understanding