Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

Terence McKenna

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• I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Person
  • Failures
  • Negatives

• From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • England
  • Only
  • Spoke

• With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Time
  • Like

• Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Long
  • Done
  • Business

• I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.

  

  Imelda May
  • Work
  • Play
  • Language

• Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Man
  • Freedom

• If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Children
  • Think
  • Parenting

• We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Movie
  • Free
  • Pay

• My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.

  

  T-Pain
  • Bad
  • You
  • Me

• I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Live
  • Money
  • Man

• Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Die

• Raindrops keep fallin' on my headAnd just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bedNothin' seems to fit

  

  Hal David
  • Guy

• When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• : No comment, since this is still hovering (see Larry's reply).Flutter, flutter.

  

  Larry Wall

• It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage in my life.

  

  Lewis Thomas
  • Life
  • Long
  • Single

• I had a lot of self-confidence.

  

  Bowie Kuhn
  • Confidence

• A lot of people might sit back and watch Dominick Cruz doing his footwork, and say, 'Oh, Dominick Cruz just dancing around, and he runs away.' It's a totally different atmosphere until you get in there, and you actually experience it.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • People
  • Different
  • Experience

• Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.

  

  James S. Coleman
  • Different
  • Children
  • Family

• Don’t always want to go up. Go down, like water, because eventually it’ll go up again. Just like rain, it falls from the sky, flows as a river, then merges with the sea, the goes up again as a cloud.

  

  Yasmin Zarine Shahmir
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Water

• The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • America
  • Food

• I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Play
  • Young
  • Expectations

• The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse.

  

  James Chanos
  • Bad
  • Interesting

• There are no problems that can’t be solved. The world is too full of options. If you can’t solve the #problem, it’s because you haven’t found the right option ... But the answer is always there.

  

  will.i.am
  • World
  • Problem
  • Found

• A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Reality
  • Fall
  • Teaching