Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

Terence McKenna

• Men
• Imagination
• Lying
• Dimensions
• Seeking

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• If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • House
  • You

• Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Change
  • Lead

• I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Lawyer

• Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • God
  • Greatest
  • Gifts

• The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Power
  • Understanding
  • End

• I started out doing musicals.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Doing
  • Started
  • Musicals

• I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Important
  • Health
  • Sports

• I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Kind
  • Say
  • Anything

• As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Time
  • America
  • Feel

• I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Water
  • Habit
  • Afraid

• Animals, these beings trappedAs I am trapped but not, themselves, the trap,Aging, but without knowledge of their age,Kept safe here, knowing not of death, for death- Oh, bars of my own body, open, open!The world goes by my cage and never sees me.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • World
  • Age
  • Death

• In 1946, when I was still an adolescent, I went and signed my name on the other side of the sky during a fantastic 'realistico-imaginary' voyage.

  

  Yves Klein
  • Sky

• 'Eh bien, Mademoiselle, all through my life I have observed one thing - 'All one wants one gets!' Who knows?' His face screwed itself up comically. 'You may get more than you bargain for.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Life
  • Up
  • May

• My goal keeps me alive, and no personal issue is going to interfere with that. If people try to put me in the crazy box–'crazy fucking Courtney'–go ahead. But if you think you’re going to stop me from where I’m going, you’re not going to do it. I work my ass off. I deliver the goddamn goods. And I will deliver them again.

  

  Courtney Love
  • People
  • Work
  • Stop

• My belief in God is that God wants you. God wants you to believe in him, or it, whatever you would call it.

  

  Jason Segel
  • God
  • Believe

• If I have to, I will. I'll do whatever the law (requires) me to do, but other than that, it's a waste of my time.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Time
  • Law
  • Requires

• I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.

  

  Barack Obama
  • American
  • History
  • Science

• Whitman had a profound influence on me. … He was useful to me in the perfection of form, as a sort of compromise between the strict and the free.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Free
  • Profound

• Objection is when I say: this doesn't suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn't suit me never happens again.

  

  Ulrike Meinhof
  • Happens
  • Resistance
  • Suits

• Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

  

  Jacques Maritain
  • Men

• The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Men
  • Imagination
  • Lying