Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

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• You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Baby
  • King
  • Defeat

• Jesus H. Christ. I have new respect for the female of the species suddenly.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Respect
  • Jesus

• There's no doubt that I'm a better president now than when I first took office. This is not a job where there's a manual, and over time you get a better sense of what's important, what's not, how to see around corners and anticipate problems, as opposed to just managing problems once they've arrived.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Important
  • Job

• I wonder if any element of interior design is more personal than color? Nothing can more quicly reveal aspect of personality and character than the choice - or absence - of color.

  

  Van Day Truex
  • Character
  • Wonder
  • Design

• My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint Laurent sketches on the wall in our house. A lot of that rubbed off on me.

  

  Zachary Cole Smith
  • Up
  • She
  • American

• No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • People
  • Words
  • Nasty

• The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Decision
  • Choice
  • Stopped

• Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Experience
  • Peace
  • Health

• There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Hippie

• The masculine in each of us struggles for greater freedom and tries to achieve it through financial, creative, or political challenges.

  

  David Deida
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Struggle

• We now have the largest surplus in history, ... As we commit ourselves to finding ways to secure our retirement programs, we also commit ourselves to bringing fairness to the tax code.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • History
  • Retirement
  • Surplus

• Me?" All the crappiness of the day, of the last few weeks, zeroed in on this high and mighty B with an itch, and the scared-rabbit feeling faded.

  

  Christie Craig
  • High
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• The issue for me is American competitiveness, and how do we best create a climate here that allows international capital to come to these shores to create jobs.

  

  Vito Fossella
  • Jobs
  • Issues
  • Climate

• Never take ecstasy, beer, baccardi, weed, pepto bismol, vivarin, tums, tagamet hb, xanax, and valium in the same day. It makes it difficult to sleep at night.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Difficult

• The point is to stumble upon things in your life, and not plan them out.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Life
  • Plans
  • Stumble Upon

• After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Team
  • Winning
  • Individual

• Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Working
  • Vanity
  • Sort

• We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.

  

  Woodrow Wyatt
  • Children
  • inspirational
  • Immortality

• If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Plans