Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

No one knows enough to worry.

Terence McKenna

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• Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Good
  • You
  • Alive

• No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Person
  • Honor
  • Reward

• Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Pride

• If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Live
  • Business
  • Support

• I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.

  

  Dan Colen
  • World
  • Trying
  • High

• I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Life
  • Game
  • College

• That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Good
  • Why
  • Door

• As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Writing
  • Constitution
  • Court

• By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Character
  • You
  • Kind

• You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Game
  • You
  • Alert

• I basically raised myself.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Myself
  • Raised
  • Basically

• That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Movie
  • Never
  • Finish

• I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.

  

  Sally Mann
  • People
  • Life
  • Pretty

• Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Happiness
  • Morality

• I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Friends
  • Always
  • Thought

• We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Believe
  • America
  • Future

• If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Music
  • Art
  • Fashion

• There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Single
  • Moments

• If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

  

  Will Cuppy
  • Reason
  • Something
  • Thing

• Go back to what's good, what's certain, what's always there. You woke up today. Just start walking. Whatever it is, it'll pass. Time doesn't go backward. That's the one real blessing. It happened; it does you no good to worry. Keep it movin'.

  

  Jesse L. Martin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I wasn't paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Heart
  • Attention
  • Enough

• Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn't have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldn't be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a library's peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of light.

  

  Karen Russell
  • Light
  • Reading
  • Heaven

• No one knows enough to worry.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Worry
  • Enough
  • Knows