Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin may have synergized the emergence of higher forms of psychic organization out of primitive protohuman animals. It can be seen as a kind of evolutionary enzyme, or evolutionary catalyst.
Quotes to Explore
-
You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
-
I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
-
You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
-
The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
-
Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
-
I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
-
I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
-
A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
-
The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
-
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
-
I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
-
It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive, and there's a burden to that.
-
I like to describe 'Yellowstone' is 'The Great Gatsby' on the largest ranch in Montana. Then it's really a study of the changing of the West.
-
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
-
Obviously comedic styles do change.
-
That should probably be written: no !@#$%^&*:@!semicolon
-
People that have had genuine abduction experiences that I've met that seem very genuine to me, but they're just confused about why it happened. I've met a lot of people like which I regard as being very genuine... but there's a lot of crazy people out there.
-
Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.
-
How quickly that will take place, and to what level it will reduce the cost and size of the U.S. presence, is something that has got to be determined by actual success, not some kind of calendar.
-
Zemlinsky, who was to be on the panel of judges, played through the first few for Schoenberg and, finding them “wonderful and truly original,” agreed with him that, regrettably, “precisely on that account they would have little chance of winning the prize.”
-
I met with Martha and Sharon to see if there are any opportunities in syndication. My vision says her customers and fans are still loyal to her. I don't think the Martha Stewart brand loyalty has changed.
-
Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It only kills the brain cells that contain good sense, shame, embarrassment, and restraint.
-
At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin may have synergized the emergence of higher forms of psychic organization out of primitive protohuman animals. It can be seen as a kind of evolutionary enzyme, or evolutionary catalyst.
