Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.

Terence McKenna

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• When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Control
  • Thoughts
  • Emotions

• Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Heart
  • Inspiration
  • Write

• You’d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Good
  • Great

• I disliked numbers, and they didn't think much of me either.

  

  R. J. Anderson
  • Thinking
  • Numbers

• Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Storm

• In the winter, I'm always in Europe. July and September are New Zealand and Chile camps. I'm always on the road.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Road
  • Winter
  • Europe

• All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history.

  

  Arthur Bryant
  • People
  • May
  • History

• I tuck caution into my pocket and hope I can reach for it if I need to.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Hope
  • Needs
  • Pockets

• In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Remember
  • Boy

• Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Nature
  • Growth

• I didn't leave physics because of boredom. I left it because other issues compelled me in a bigger way. And I always say to myself, "When I'm 60, I'd like to go back to what I interrupted."

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Way
  • Issues
  • Boredom

• L.A. is a kind of a landing place for some people. People are just in and out all the time. People are there for a short time until they get what they need and then they go somewhere else.

  

  Zella Day
  • People
  • Time

• Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.

  

  Clarence Douglas Dillon
  • Attention

• Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the Stratigraphical Record."

  

  D. V. Ager
  • May
  • Nature
  • Science

• American Indians would, you know, scalp them and desecrate the bodies, you know, tie them to cactuses or bury them in anthills or things like that, and you know, cut up the bodies and stuff. And then the other enemy soldiers would come across and find their comrades laying there, ripped apart, and they would be sickened by it and it would scare them.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Up
  • American
  • Enemy

• The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.

  

  C. E. M. Joad
  • Angry

• Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions.

  

  Eamonn Coghlan
  • World
  • Running
  • Olympics

• 'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Study
  • Philosophy
  • Buddhist

• I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.

  

  Michael Connelly
  • Character
  • Book
  • Interesting

• It's hard to film underwater. It really is tricky. You don't have goggles, so you can't see anything. You don't know where you're swimming to. Everything's blurry.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Swimming
  • Blurry
  • Goggles

• It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them - with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Reading

• The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked out, but Slash and Axl stopped working together.

  

  Steven Adler
  • Working
  • Shame
  • Stopped

• History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Opposites
  • Buddhist
  • Realms