Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture.
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Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.
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Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.
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To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.
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It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.
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I don't care about vacations. I go away and I come back real quick because I like my work. I really like my work to consume me.
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This is a time where fashion and style go against what I would rather do myself. So I have to pick and choose from people that share my enthusiasm when it comes to certain things.
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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.
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Motivation is the key. More than training, more than experience or age, motivation counts. You have to ask yourself: 'Why am I racing?' I race because I like it, because I'm really enjoying it. I like to set up my bike and ride it on track. After 20 years in the GPs I'm still highly motivated. Everything else is a consequence.
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It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.
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The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.
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There was no saying what might come in useful some day.
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There are a whole host of psychological phenomenon humans have developed to protect ourselves from the sting of failure, from holding ourselves less accountable for our failures than we do other people, to letting our fear paralyze us and keep us from even trying.
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There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.
