Mind Blowing famous quotes
06-14-2025
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The road to national rebirth is a hard one, but there is no other.
-- Aaron David Miller -
By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.
-- Alan Watts -
It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.
-- Andrew Taylor -
If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
-- David Eagleman -
I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.
-- Joe Elliott -
Mr. President, the dedication of 35 percent of all construction contracts to women is really mind blowing to say the least. President Jonathan's benevolence to women is unbelievably phenomenal.
-- Kema Chikwe -
The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
My absolute favorite growing up was Super Friends. The assemblage of so many mighty heroes in one place was, to me, mind-blowing. It was Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and then sometimes Hawkman and some other, lesser heroes.
-- Michael Ian Black -
Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don’t say “I’ll never be goodâ€. You can become better! and one day you’ll wake up and you’ll find out how good you actually became.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.
-- Pat Riley -
You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.
-- Terence McKenna -
If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.
-- Terence McKenna -
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
-- Terence McKenna -
You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.
-- Terence McKenna -
The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
-- Terence McKenna -
If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.
-- Terence McKenna -
Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.
-- Terence McKenna -
The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.
-- Terence McKenna -
Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.
-- Terence McKenna -
We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.
-- Terence McKenna -
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.
-- Terence McKenna -
My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.
-- Terence McKenna -
The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.
-- Terence McKenna -
We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
-- Terence McKenna -
The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
-- Terence McKenna -
You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.
-- Terence McKenna -
Not only is it mind-blowing that God would consider me - us - worthy of his love, but it's flat-out incomprehensible that God would give us his wisdom, compassion, guidance, and comfort by giving us his Word. It's totally humbling and such an honor. Thank you Lord!
-- Jennifer Rothschild -
There might be lots of boring thoughts coming from someone else, but the way they come across, they would be mind blowing because they would come in such a way so foreign to me. I think I would mostly be surprised, but alarmed also. There will be something within each of us, despite our differences, in thought processes to connect us.
-- Matthew Carter -
Hot Fuzz in a strange way, for me, summons up the spirit of watching R-rated films that I was too young to watch. I was 14, 13 maybe, when Robocop came out. Seeing Robocop at my brother's friend's house, and not really supposed to be watching it, because it was [rated] 18 and I was 13. That mind-blowing experience, because not only is it a great film, but it feels illicit.
-- Edgar Wright
