Convince Quote by Terence McKenna Download Open image “I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.” — Terence McKenna ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Convince Matter People People that matter Tacky Thinking
I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else's shoes, and identify and reject false choices. — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
If you are a human being, you might as well face it. You are going to rub a lot of people the wrong way. — Jane Wagner Copy Share Image
Make your judgments and then you don't have to worry about it. You're always going to have those people who are offended about every… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
We've got these stereotypes, and I think there can be some trouble when we force these on people. — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
However naïve it sounds, or however inept the result, I think the idea is to try to alchemize the crap, not just mirror it… — David First Copy Share Image
History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we want something to be true so badly that we convince ourselves that it is true.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees… — Wilfred Grenfell Copy Share Image
Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Once you convince people that they're victims, you really own them because you've just told them that whatever problems they have in life, it's… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The people on the QVC shopping channel convince me that life is worth living. They see the good in everything. People who go to… — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
“What can I say to convince you the Houses of Parliament dissolve night after night to become the fluid dream of the Thames? I… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
Human beings have the incredible capacity for denial. I think they do. And although it's really hard to believe, I have my doubts. But… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Don't lie to yourself about what you can't or can achieve. Convince yourself on a realistic level that you can do it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Don't ever let anyone convince you that your imagination is wrong.” — Giuseppe Bianco Copy Share Image
It's hard to convince your agents and managers to do theater, because it's not as financially rewarding and it takes up a lot of… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image