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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We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
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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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I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.
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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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I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.
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I've got a lot to look forward to. I'm trying to be the best father I can, and that's a pretty important role. Some would say it's more important than stopping pucks.
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Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.
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True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart.
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You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.
