Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The real truth that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control, absolutely no one... Nobody is in control. This stuff is ruled by the equations of dynamics and chaos. Now, there may be entities seeking control - the World Bank, the Communist Party, the rich, the somebody-or-others - but to seek control is to take enormous aggravation upon yourself... It's like trying to control a dream.

Terence McKenna

• Real
• Trying
• Dream
• Speak
• Chaos
• Dare
• Enormous
• Dynamics
• Aggravation

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• To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • American
  • Speak
  • Honest

• I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Trying
  • Career
  • Interesting

• If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Live
  • Trying

• Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Life
  • Work
  • Trying

• It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

  

  Becky G
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Makeup

• I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Life
  • Believe
  • American

• I so think it's limiting to define an audience ahead of time. This is something I've brought on myself by being like, 'There are no 'real' teen publications! That's what I'll do!' But then it's like, well, if I want 'Rookie' to be successful and popular, then people will invalidate the realness by saying it's popular and mainstream.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Funny

• Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Career

• I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Trying
  • Lost
  • Find

• I never saw anything more like real warfare in my life - only the attack was all on one side. The police, in spite of their numbers, apparently thought they could not cope with the crowd.

  

  Walter Crane
  • Life
  • Real
  • Thought

• It's our heritage: we Democrats, we dream a lot.

  

  James Carville
  • Dream

• When I was growing up, I always had the dream of being an analyst for a minor league baseball team or something like that.

  

  James Carville
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Growing

• A lot of people who have been perceiving my music have been trying to formulate a genre for it, and I think it's just a natural thing; it doesn't need to be categorized. It doesn't need to be sectioned, if you will.

  

  Archy Ivan Marshall
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?

  

  Duane Michals
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Real
  • Success
  • Quality

• I'm already a tiny person, so now I'm trying to go to the gym to add muscle. I need it!

  

  Alexa Vega
  • Trying
  • Gym

• If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • Real
  • Words
  • Feeling

• Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life.

  

  Charles William Eliot
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• I tend to invest a little more than I should when I do musicals, so it takes a lot out of me and my personal life.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • Life

• Each of us has a gift, a talent, that we can offer to the world that makes the world essentially a better place.

  

  James Redfield
  • World

• It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.

  

  Benedict Cumberbatch
  • Father

• The real truth that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control, absolutely no one... Nobody is in control. This stuff is ruled by the equations of dynamics and chaos. Now, there may be entities seeking control - the World Bank, the Communist Party, the rich, the somebody-or-others - but to seek control is to take enormous aggravation upon yourself... It's like trying to control a dream.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Dream