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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• 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

• 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

• 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

• Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • Risk
  • Courage
  • Optimistic

• I believe that if writers want their readers to care about a character, they have to care themselves. I have to root for a detective who screws up as much as Thorne does, who shares my birthday, my North London stomping ground, and my love of country music, both alt and cheesy.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Up
  • Music
  • Believe

• It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • Life
  • Night
  • Period

• We live under the power of Modern Consciousness, which means that we are obsessed with progress. Wherever you are is not good enough. We always want to achieve something, rather than experience something. The opposite of this is Spiritual Consciousness. By that I mean you find enchantment in every action you do, rather in just the results of your action. Spiritual Consciousness is not a particular religion but a way of being.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Action
  • Mean
  • Spiritual

• I've been married to Kris for 21 years, and there have always been rocky times. And it's nothing special.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Always
  • Years
  • Special

• I did try to leave, and she came running after me.

  

  David Gest
  • She
  • Running

• 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