Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.

Terence McKenna

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• I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

  

  Earl Hines
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Memory

• We should be open to a discussion on keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. I don't know how that manifests itself, but I'm looking to get elected president of the United States. I just want to let people know I have an open mind about how we might - how government might - interject itself in a lot of the problems we have.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Mind
  • Government

• There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Mind
  • Culture
  • Strong

• In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Single

• I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Mind
  • May
  • War

• If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Clear

• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mind
  • Integrity
  • Own

• Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Choice

• The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Mind
  • Eye
  • Fade

• I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
  • Dream
  • Tales

• You have to know your value, demand to be respected, speak your mind, and dare to ask for what you want. I struggle with every single one of these.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Mind
  • Single
  • Value

• The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Mind
  • Sense
  • Nonsense

• Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• Subconsciously he knew too, that the oriental woman is not a sensualist in the European sense; there is nothing mawkish in her constitution. Her true obsessions are power, politics and possessions - however much she might deny it. The sex ticks on in the mind, but its motions are warmed by the kinetic brutalities of money. (X)

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Mind
  • Money
  • She

• When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Mind
  • School
  • High

• The death of Sid Caesar on Wednesday caused a chain reaction in my soon-to-be-66-year-old mind. I was saddened, of course, but felt a sense of relief that he was at last free from the indignity of aging.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Free

• Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Real

• You saw something you were not supposed to see - something few elements have been aware of, let alone witnessed.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Alone

• There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer graphics as much as I like allegory. It's a constant balancing game. I want audiences to be on this rollercoaster that fits the Hollywood mould, but I also want them to absorb my observations.

  

  Neill Blomkamp
  • Game
  • Action
  • Design

• There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does it have to have any specific words?' And they said, 'No, it just has to be about FM radio.' It took a day or two to write.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Song
  • Words
  • Day

• It's the Masters. If that doesn't get you nervous and your juices flowing, I don't know what does.

  

  Peter Uihlein

• Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table. You always look so cool," she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • She
  • Together
  • Alone

• It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Understood
  • Becoming