Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.

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• There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.

  

  Iris Chang
  • People
  • Start
  • Chinese

• To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Good
  • Important
  • Struggle

• The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Work
  • Think
  • Way

• Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Inspiration
  • Working

• You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Happy
  • Team
  • Day

• I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • True
  • Help
  • Military

• We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Afraid
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• We manufacture automotive components including critical engine and axle parts for passenger cars, diesel engines and medium & heavy commercial vehicles. Till 1997, our focus was almost entirely on the domestic market with a relatively insignificant portion of revenues from exports.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Focus
  • Insignificant
  • Till

• As soonSeek roses in December, ice in June;Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff;Believe a woman or an epitaph,Or any other thing that's false, beforeYou trust in critics, who themselves are sore.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Trust

• I like to keep my money at the end of the day.

  

  Pitbull
  • Money

• We can put millions of America's idle young people to work helping to repair and restore America's deteriorating infrastructure, public utilities, and transportation systems. Nothing would revitalize the nation's sagging economy more than such a commitment.

  

  Bernice King
  • People
  • Work
  • America

• I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Jesus
  • Buddha

• The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.

  

  Martin Sheen
  • Reality

• There are plenty of models who have children.

  

  Arizona Muse
  • Children

• I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. That didn't work out; I broke my collarbone. But I always loved running.

  

  Danny Pudi
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• I wrestled with my Catholicism for a long time. It took a long time to escape. It began with a sense that it was repressive, stern, judgmental. It was passionate, but it was terrifying. There were individual priests and nuns who were helpful, but the religion was cold.

  

  David Rabe
  • Time
  • Long
  • Cold

• As a rule, Michael Balcon was at great pains to ensure Ealing remained very British. There was no point our trying to be MGM, and we didn't see a lot of American stars.

  

  Douglas Slocombe
  • Great
  • Trying
  • American

• You cannot stop the men and women of the FBI from doing the right thing, protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution.

  

  Andrew McCabe
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• My dream pet? I like a couple of them, man: monkey, I love dogs. See, tigers, I don't know - I can't be playing with something like that. A monkey, I can handle it. A dog, yeah; I would get a monkey.

  

  Karim Kharbouch
  • Dream
  • Couple
  • Dog

• I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Trying
  • Happy
  • Guy

• Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the center of your religion a rite where you eat your god is probably a memory of a relationship to some kind of a psychedelic experience of some sort.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Kind
  • Moments
  • Religious

• Kat felt her heart beat faster, adrenaline pumping through her veins, and she knew he was right. She studied him for a long time. "Do you believe in curses, Hale?" He looked at her. "I believe in you.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Believe
  • Studied
  • Veins

• Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

  

  Will Oldham
  • Sometimes
  • Certain
  • Order

• To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Trying
  • Reality
  • Psychedelic