Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
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I'm the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor.
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
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I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
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I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
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I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.
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Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.
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Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites.
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Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.
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Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment.
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It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.
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One does not paint for design students or historians but for human beings, and the reaction in human terms is the only thing that is really satisfactory to the artist. in conversation with W.C. Seitz
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Many entrepreneurs that made their fortunes by founding successful technology companies want to give back and solve the world's biggest problems on a grand scale. There is tremendous opportunity in this approach.
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You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.
