Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.
Quotes to Explore
-
It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
-
I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
-
Statistics on the dangers guns pose to the health of their owners and those who live with them suggest that I'd be safer selling my guns than reserving them for 'Tombstone II.'
-
To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.
-
In my suffrage work, I learned beyond question that the news coming through the great press agencies was colored and distorted; and if this has been done on one subject, it has doubtless been done on others. A good many women, I think, learned a wholesome distrust of press reports during the suffrage struggle.
-
A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.
-
For me at this time in my life I recognize that everything is about moving closer to that which is God. And without a full, spiritual center - and I am not talking about religion, I am talking about without understanding the fullness from which you've come you can't really fulfill your supreme moment of destiny.
-
One of the proudest things of my three years in office is helping to restore a sense of respect for America around the world.
-
If there is anything that the ACLU hates more than censorship, it is any form of public religious expression.
-
Our sites are run by the people who use them. We just pretty much provide the infrastructure.
-
As a new mother, I want to give my children the best start in life but millions of children affected with AIDS don't live with such certainty. We can all do something to give them a future worth living for. We can make a difference in a child's life by joining with UNICEF to ensure that mothers and children are given the treatment that they deserve, in order to live a life free from HIV and AIDS.
-
We let the momentum slide in the fourth quarter.
-
The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.
-
My communication with aliens is not verbal - we speak the language of light.
-
Put your hands up and cheer for yourselves! You are strong, you are brave, you are confident, and I f*ing love you, Israel.
-
I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.
-
Set your goals, follow your dreams, listen to your heart and don't let anything stand in your way.
-
You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!
-
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
-
Brainwashing is defined as an observable set of transactions between a charismatically-structured collectivity and an isolated agent of the collectivity with the goal of transforming the agent into a deployable agent. Brainwashing is thus a process of ideological resocialization carried out within a structure of charismatic authority.
-
Occasionally when you’re in that zone, striving to operate at your highest levels, you get consumed. You forget to eat and shower. But that can be a good thing. No one makes money eating or showering.
-
This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.
