Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
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I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm ready to rock and roll.
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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
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Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
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Organizations are trying to save extra money. Players are trying to get extra money. That's the way it is.
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Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
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But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.
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In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership.
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God bless those employees at United who somehow continue to be gracious and patient and generous with customers even while bearing the brunt of a broken company themselves.
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You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.
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I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I. I must say that so often in earlier times when I saw people of the lower classes, simple manual laborers who could believe so rightly with their hearts, I always envied them, and now tell me how does one begin this?
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I don't wanna' wonder whether you love me I don't wanna' wonder whether you care
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Change isn't a scary thing. It's constant and inevitable.
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Something I really hate more than anything else is clogs.
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I was able to realize that I definitely want to make sure that I use my voice, as it gets bigger and bigger, in the world for good.
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With musical theatre, although there are rules, they're so different to the ones I feel like I have accidentally been ingrained with writing pop music. The main point is to tell the story. You just have to make sure the character's voice is strong and the storytelling is strong.
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Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name...without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.
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To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art.
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I like creating these moments where there's this dichotomy between something that repels you but is still so attractive that you can't stop looking. You still want to acquire it; there's still that level of aspiration for the image of the figure or the person you're looking at. when you look at the work there's this, "Oh it's really beautifully rendered!" or, "I love those beautiful tones." There's some aspect that's really attractive but the image itself could be slightly distributing.
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Leaders who set out to give are more productive than leaders who seek to get.
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To me, writing is a very physical process. I lay out the entire book with the two narratives side by side on my bedroom floor, and just get down on my hands and knees and start looking at it in that physical space. "Does this really follow from this? Should this be here or elsewhere?" I will literally cut the paper into paragraphs. I'll cut it into segments and move the segments around from one narrative to the other until I feel that I've found the natural structure.
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Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.
