Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.

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• From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Motivational
  • Fortune
  • Tribe

• I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Water

• It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Tough

• I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Eye

• Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Children
  • Future
  • Success

• There are co-ed schools in Saudi, but those are American or British. My dad, of course, believed in the good old CBSE Indian school system and thus, my younger brother Ishmeet and I were put in an all-boys CBSE school. My mother could move out only if she wore a burkha.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Mother
  • Dad
  • Brother

• The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.

  

  Walter Map
  • God
  • Feet
  • Meat

• I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Love Is
  • Jealous

• Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.

  

  Vanessa Brown
  • Beautiful
  • Mean
  • Feel

• For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.

  

  Benito Mussolini

• Low-end disruption occurs when the rate at which products improve exceeds the rate at which customers can adopt the new performance.

  

  Clayton M. Christensen

• Honestly, I think it's kind of corny to sit and watch your own work.

  

  Pilou Asbaek
  • Work

• The war against terrorism is one we must win.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • War

• It's important to show that there's different ways of doing things. Some people like to be glamorous, and that's perfectly fine, and that's amazing. If I were that style, then I would do that. I'd wear heels every day, and I'd strut around in a dress, but that's not me.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Free
  • Control
  • Action

• I did not sell Amway, but I sold Shaklee, which was an Amway-type product sold through multi-level marketing.

  

  Andy Kindler
  • Marketing

• Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.

  

  Leslie Fiedler
  • People
  • Funny

• I always say snowboarding saved my life. It gave me a reason to focus on the future; it gave me something to be passionate about.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • Life
  • Future
  • Focus

• Sure, I get tired. But it's a long season, and you've got to play no matter if you have a little injury. I'm that kind of player.

  

  Asdrubal Cabrera
  • Long
  • Player
  • Tired

• Before any final solution to American history can occur, a reconciliation must be effected between the spiritual owner of the land - American Indians - and the political owner of the land - American Whites. Guilt and accusations cannot continue to revolve in a vacuum without some effort at reaching a solution.

  

  Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • Political
  • Spiritual
  • Effort

• Att our MIT lab, there are people from diverse backgrounds like architecture, psychology, and philosophy, giving a holistic touch to the creation of any technology we may have in mind.

  

  Pranav Mistry
  • People
  • Mind
  • May

• Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Spiritual
  • Drug
  • Periods