Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.

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• It's so essential to happiness to speak your truth out loud - because this sharing of your core pain is what creates a necessary healing shift - from negative beliefs about the world - to positive beliefs - and frees you up to be able to fully view life with meaning, purpose and connection with others.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Work
  • America
  • Weird

• I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Real

• Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • World
  • Reality

• I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Long
  • Friend

• If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Law
  • Focus

• In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • War
  • Army
  • Egypt

• I was on a series for a number of years, and I got very used to only doing a mini-play per week. When I first came back to the theater, and I was suddenly doing eight shows a week again for three or four months, I had to find a new reason to do it.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Doing
  • Find
  • Week

• As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Love
  • Fighting
  • Lies

• I believe that women should be treated just like men.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• Having been a journalist for almost 20 years and then becoming a politician has definitely been an interesting and enriching experience for me.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • Experience
  • Interesting
  • Me

• Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • World
  • Best

• I hope that they are finding satisfaction. I'm in no way making a judgment. I know it doesn't make me happy.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Happy
  • Hope
  • Know

• I just don't talk about who I'm going out with, that's it. It's an odd thing to sit around describing yourself to 10 different people every 5 minutes yet it's kind of therapeutic in a way.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • People
  • Different
  • Kind

• Not to cover the subject, but to uncover and isolate a part of it … is the aim of the aphorist

  

  Clifton Fadiman

• 'The Stooges' used to be ubiquitous, back in the '60s and '70s. They were on TV all the time, but they're not on so much anymore. Kids aren't getting the chance to watch them, not to mention the fact that kids don't really necessarily relate to black-and-white stuff.

  

  Chris Diamantopoulos
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Black

• When I first asked my boxing coach, two-time Olympic champion Hector Vinent, what made the Cuban style of fighting distinct from the rest of the world, he smiled and told me to sit on a bench in Prado and watch the Cuban women walk.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Money
  • Attitude
  • Tree

• Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that. Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives.

  

  James Mirrlees
  • Trying
  • Words
  • Curiosity

• The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Business
  • Opportunity
  • Study

• Baseball is a game of geometry, while football is a game of explosive emotion. Every emotion known to mankind is in that 60 minutes - pride, pain, dedication, satisfaction, fear.

  

  Keith Jackson
  • Game
  • Fear
  • Pain

• In the same way that musicians inspire me, artists and photographers like David LaChapelle influence me with their visuals. A photographer like LaChapelle creates an entirely new and unique visual for their work, and that's what I'd like to do with the Charli XCX world as well.

  

  Charli XCX
  • World
  • Work
  • Unique

• When we approach games, we're always emotional-focused, so if a free-to-play business model works against the emotion, we won't use it. If it actually works well with the emotion, or if we can come up with a new way to do monetization that's different and that's unique for the game, I would go for that.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Up
  • Different
  • Business

• The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.

  

  Terence McKenna
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  • Property
  • Molecules