Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

I think our intelligence is a source of toxicity to nature and discomfort to ourselves unless our values are based on planetary values, are linked to the values of the rest of nature. Intelligence is not a license to trample. The proper role of intelligence in a planetary ecology is that of gardener, caregiver and maintainer of balance.

Terence McKenna

• Balance
• Values
• Discomfort
• Gardener
• Ecology
• Caregivers

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• When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Home
  • Everything
  • Normal

• I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Action

• I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Smart
  • Write
  • Own

• Before training, I eat slow-release energy food, such as porridge or muesli, especially in the morning. Afterwards, I eat protein so my muscles are able to recover, such as a protein bar followed by a meal of chicken and vegetables. I always stay hydrated during workouts by drinking plenty of water throughout.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Water

• Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Writing
  • Walk
  • Lunchtime

• Amazon makes mistakes, including launching a smartphone in 2014 that was a flop and to which I gave a poor review.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Mistakes
  • Poor
  • Review

• I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Responsibility
  • Moral
  • Wise

• There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Time
  • Way
  • Feel

• I was horrified by the attacks against her, but Madonna knew the situation in Malawi, where he was born. In that country, there isn't really a legal framework for adopting. Personally, I prefer to stay on the side of the law.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Country
  • Law

• A lot of people feel pressured by the outside influences, whether it's your job, whether it's school. But who says you can't take care of that stuff and still be young?

  

  Khalid
  • People
  • School
  • Job

• I think people have an appetite for VR at $200, $300, $400. It's something so new and improves so quickly, people do have an appetite to buy that. If people are getting a new VR headset every two or three years that's incredibly improved, you want to go do that.

  

  Brendan Iribe
  • People

• I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage.

  

  Lillie Langtry
  • Great

• I can't wait until I get to play the fat guy in the office.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • Guy

• Honesty is the best policy; the only way out is deeper in: a candid confrontation with existence is dizzying, liberating.

  

  David Shields
  • Honesty

• We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Success
  • Paris

• When you have somebody writing or acting for you, you have to be free to have them hate you so you can get your ideas across without worrying.

  

  Amy Heckerling
  • Writing
  • Free
  • Hate

• Fallen angels could not enter sanctuaries of God. The moment they crossed the threshold, the house of worship would go up in flames, incinerating every mortal inside.

  

  Lauren Kate
  • Up
  • God
  • House

• Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.

  

  Andy Garcia
  • People
  • Together

• When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Child
  • Uncle

• There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Man
  • Fool
  • Whiskey

• For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Wedding

• Fortunately, good policy, true principles, and effective leadership work whenever they are tried. When we reduce government, balance budgets, and keep taxes as low as possible, states respond in a positive way.

  

  Brian Sandoval
  • Good
  • Work
  • True

• I gradually understood why European mothers aren't in perpetual panic about their work-life balance and don't write books about how executive moms should just try harder: Their governments are helping them - and doing it competently.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• I think our intelligence is a source of toxicity to nature and discomfort to ourselves unless our values are based on planetary values, are linked to the values of the rest of nature. Intelligence is not a license to trample. The proper role of intelligence in a planetary ecology is that of gardener, caregiver and maintainer of balance.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Balance
  • Values
  • Discomfort