Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into on a psychedelic experience was somebody's idea of a playpen.
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I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.
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There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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The process for producing public policy in Congress is flawed. The process itself kills policy ideas through the bypassing of the rules and procedural decisions that limit discussion.
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My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.
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My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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There was no Internet, not even many cookbooks except the old reference books. So we would sit down at night, a group of six chefs, and we'd exchange recipes and each talk about how we were doing things. It was the only way to learn new ideas.
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We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.
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You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.
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I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.
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When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
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I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
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It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.
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I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.
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The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.
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If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because of exceedingly stringent regulatory requirements, that event will have harmed more people than all the toxicity that has occurred in the history of modern drug development.
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One cannot have "success" in poetry. If I wanted to be successful, I'd have become a lawyer.
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It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.
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I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say, till they were in their fifties and sixties. And God knows, history is full of artistic people that weren't even recognized till they were dead and gone.
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I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into on a psychedelic experience was somebody's idea of a playpen.
