Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.

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• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Should
  • Matter
  • Say

• Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

  

  Nas
  • Hip Hop
  • Noise
  • Spotlight

• Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Audience
  • United States

• Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Truth
  • Imagination
  • Meaning

• I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Long
  • City
  • Grandmother

• People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Up
  • Look

• The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Life
  • Days
  • Once

• Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Devil
  • Heat
  • Complain

• I've been honored to take part in protests and events across Illinois, joining with thousands of you in the resistance, making calls, sending letters, and making sure Washington understands that we will not allow the ACA to be repealed.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • You
  • Take
  • Resistance

• Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Information
  • Office

• Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes-while not becoming an extremist. Most companies don't do paradox very well.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Resilience

• On a deeper level, if our sons are learning they are obscene, disgusting, and untrustworthy, is this the best preparation for fatherhood? And is it the best preparation for becoming a mother - to feel this way about her son?

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Mother
  • Learning
  • Son

• The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Future
  • Light
  • Present

• There is a strong side to me, that is of a homemaker. I look forward to spending time at home in the evenings, cooking a meal, chatting with my parents and inviting friends over.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Time
  • Home
  • Friends

• I don't play for job security.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Job

• I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.

  

  Elif Safak
  • Words
  • Control
  • Scary

• I often think of the novel as a form that celebrates social groups, and the short story being a form that is capable of celebrating an individual or a sort of insular little pair of people.

  

  Antonya Nelson
  • People

• There's a final exam in venture every four to six years. The scary thing is you need to get an 'A' in every discipline. You need to be on generational planning, need to be on great deal flow, need be on great outcomes, you need to be on great company building.

  

  David Sze
  • Great
  • Discipline
  • Scary

• No one eats pretty.

  

  Lauren Conrad
  • Pretty

• Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to build a composition by first outlining figures and objects in black and then filling the interstices in a perfunctory manner that can put one in mind of a museum-shop coloring book.

  

  Martin Filler
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Black

• Self-judgment is how conditioned mind keeps control over your life.

  

  Cheri Huber
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Control

• I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions, and if it's a good work of art, these opinions become so deeply embedded in complexity and richness that I won't even be bothered by the opinions. I'll make my own mind up.'

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Impact
  • Western