Yes Man Terence Quotes

#1. I'm not looking for sequels, but when something comes to you, and you're already a fan of that world, you have the desire to do it your way.

Daniel Radcliffe

#2. The pure culture is the foundation for all research on infectious disease.

Robert Koch

#3. Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.

Will Rogers

#4. The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect of a mystical experience because that would be essentially man ordering God at man's whim, which is not how it's supposed to work.

Terence McKenna

#5. It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?

Terence Rattigan

#6. Forget being a decent man, Terence. Go for castability. Could you even play a decent man in a movie?

Lorrie Moore

#7. Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos.

Mason Cooley

#8. The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.

Terence McKenna

#9. History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.

Terence McKenna

#10. I'm meeting my obligations, somehow, always have, without ever truly working, without ever putting my shoulder to the wheel for the man. Of course I had to deal dope to do this!

Terence McKenna

#11. It is of the first order of importance to remember this, that the shaman is more than merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself, who is cured, and who must shamanize in order to remain cured.

Terence McKenna

#12. Oh, man, I'm no good at lying. Mom always knows. She knows the second I open my mouth." Terence looked relieved. "So who said open your mouth? You're in pain. Just stand there and cry. Leave the bullshit to me. It's what I'm good at.

Joe Hill

#13. Nature is not mute; it is man who is deaf.

Terence McKenna

#14. In more metaphysical terms, it becomes a safe place in which one sleeps, dreams, and grows before emerging back into the world. Either way, it's a place not merely of shelter, but of incubation.

Lesley Hazleton

#15. Every day, getting up early in the morning before much traffic, my wife takes me 10 miles from home, drops me off, and I have to get back.

George Foreman

#16. The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

Terence McKenna

#17. Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'.
David: Good thing I'm only moderately rich.
Terence: Which is why I only moderately distrust you.

Sabrina Jeffries

#18. I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.

Terence McKenna

#19. The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.

Terence

#20. Extraordinary scenes there at the end. I think some of the crowd chanting 'Italy! Italy!' were actually Irish.

Tom McGurk

#21. Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to toil in the mud is no god I want to have any part of. It's some kind of gnostic demon. It's some kind of cannibalistic demiurge that should be thoroughly renounced and rejected.

Terence McKenna

#22. Can you imagine anything more tragic?' Rose asked. 'To be born a princess
native and to the manor born
and then to forget who you are and settle for being something horrible like an
an accountant!

Regina Doman

#23. What you call man is time.

Terence McKenna

#24. Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.

John Henry Jowett

#25. You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

Terence

#26. Solving problems - actually solving them, not just claiming you do - solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door.

Seth Godin

#27. What I would do with angel intel, I don't know. But it can't hurt to gain a little knowledge.
Tell that to Adam and Eve.

Susan Ee

#28. Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

Terence McKenna

#29. The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

Michael Kazin

#30. Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

Patty Hearst

#31. Usually, the future is a replica of the past. Superficial changes are possible, but real transformation is rare and depends upon whether you can become present enough to dissolve the past by accessing the power of the Now.

Eckhart Tolle

#32. Amateurs believe their enthusiasm will suffice.

Mason Cooley

#33. The content of the dialogue with 'the Other' is a content that indicates that man's horizons are infinitely bright, that death is in fact, well, as Thomas Vaughn put it, 'the body is the placenta of the soul'

Terence McKenna

#34. I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.

Terence