Quotes and Sayings about Energy
"Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Power, Energy, Facts)
"The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm."
- Peter Agre
(Related: Enthusiasm, Energy, Remarkable)
"I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life."
- Jenny Agutter
(Related: Life, Nature, Enthusiasm, Energy, Woman)
"To make films is as boring as watching paint dry - you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going."
- Jenny Agutter
(Related: Hope, Energy, Waiting)
"Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation."
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
(Related: Achievement, Energy, Nation)
"It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see."
- Josef Albers
(Related: Art, Science, Soul, Appreciation, Behavior, Energy, Fashion, Now, Today)
"What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment."
- Eddie Albert
(Related: Love, Energy, Sentiment, World)
"When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness."
- James Allen
(Related: Energy, Weakness)
"Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics."
- Steve Allen
(Related: Energy, Mystery, Physics)
"Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence."
- Tom Allen
(Related: Conservation, Energy, Independence)
"The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources."
- Tom Allen
(Related: Life, Commerce, Energy, Land, Ocean, Trade)
"President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office."
- Tom Allen
(Related: Energy, Mercury, Office, President)
"When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death."
- Kirstie Alley
(Related: Death, Energy)
"When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using."
- Kirstie Alley
(Related: Courage, Career, Energy, Will)
"That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible."
- Marc Almond
(Related: Life, Work, Day, Energy, Living)
"Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control."
- Barbara Amiel
(Related: Control, Energy, Europe, Weapons)
"For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Thought, Action, Energy, Nothing, Will)
"I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era."
- David Amram
(Related: People, Creativity, Energy, Spirit, Today)
"When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship."
- Barbara de Angelis
(Related: Experience, Attention, Commitment, Energy, Now, Ownership)
"If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself."
- Barbara de Angelis
(Related: Time, Energy, Giving, Will)
"I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it."
- Francesca Annis
(Related: Energy)
"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."
- Aristotle
(Related: Life, Energy, Mind)
"The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy."
- Thomas Arnold
(Related: Ability, Difference, Energy, Man)
"It's so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there's no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That's pretty well known."
- Robert Atkins
(Related: Body, Energy, Pretty, Will)
"Now, China, India have set goals. We're going to be able to review what they're doing. We're going to be able to challenge them if they don't meet those goals. We're going to pursue this anyway, because the President understands that our future lies with a clean energy economy. We've doubled renewables this year. There are millions of jobs to be had there, more energy security, so we're going to pursue this."
- David Axelrod
(Related: Goals, Challenge, Economy, Energy, Future, Jobs, Lies, Now, President, Security)
"I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York."
- Roy Ayers
(Related: Energy, Want)
"Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy."
- Sai Baba
(Related: Love, Energy, Healing, Help)
"The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts across the Nation offset these unexpected and challenging costs."
- Joe Baca
(Related: Act, Crisis, Energy, Help, Nation, School)
"From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it."
- Erykah Badu
(Related: Love, Applause, Energy, Giving, Want, World)
"The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings."
- Erykah Badu
(Related: Business, Music, Money, Feelings, Energy)
"The real essence of work is concentrated energy."
- Walter Bagehot
(Related: Work, Energy)
"When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen."
- James Baker
(Related: Energy, Excess, Saying)
"What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion."
- Ralph Bakshi
(Related: Ideas, Animation, Being, Emotion, Emotions, Energy)
"Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy."
- John Baldacci
(Related: Economy, Energy, Environment)
"Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains."
- Hosea Ballou
(Related: Energy, Mountains, Will)
"It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going."
- Ernie Banks
(Related: Life, Energy, Philosophy)
"It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast, you pay a price. If you run another part more slowly your overall time is slower."
- Roger Bannister
(Related: Time, Energy, Question)
"I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy."
- Roger Bannister
(Related: People, Energy, Pain, Pleasure, Running, Walking)
"The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Time, Negative, Energy, Waste)
"It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Comedy, Energy, Focus)
"I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable."
- Javier Bardem
(Related: Energy, English, Feeling, Trying)
"I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better."
- Bob Barker
(Related: Possibility, Animals, Concern, Energy, Feeling, Now, Years)
"I will work for energy policies that recognize oil won't last forever."
- Roscoe Bartlett
(Related: Work, Energy, Oil, Will)
"We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'."
- Roscoe Bartlett
(Related: Culture, Energy)
"I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing."
- Cecilia Bartoli
(Related: Love, Nature, Body, Energy, Mountains, Sea, Singing)
"I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective."
- Joe Barton
(Related: Environmental, Energy, Friends, Now, Perspective)
"Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time."
- Bernard Baruch
(Related: Age, Experience, Time, Energy, Man)
"The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense."
- Charles Foster Bass
(Related: Intelligence, Committee, Defense, Energy, Present, Will)
"There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong."
- Gregory Bateson
(Related: Energy, Explanations, Prose, Tension, Wrong)
"Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses."
- Melissa Bean
(Related: Environmental, Energy, Houses, Protection)
"Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it."
- Mary Ritter Beard
(Related: Life, Energy, Expression, Hunger)
"For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes."
- Bob Beauprez
(Related: Business, Work, Policy, Americans, Country, Day, Energy, Running, Waking, Will)
"Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks."
- Bob Beauprez
(Related: Policy, Americans, Energy, Jobs)
"The young people look great on television. They're youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven't got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so."
- Tony Bennett
(Related: People, Energy, Television, Training)
"For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house."
- Shelley Berkley
(Related: Energy, Investigation)
"Iran is central to our foreign policy in the Middle East, a major player in global energy markets, and a key country in terms of our interaction with the Muslim world."
- Howard Berman
(Related: Policy, Muslim, Country, Energy, Foreign policy, Key, World)
"The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony."
- Ruth Bernhard
(Related: Nature, Clouds, Energy, Harmony, Plants)
"I like the energy of live performance."
- Sandra Bernhard
(Related: Performance, Energy)
"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."
- Sarah Bernhardt
(Related: Life, Energy)
"I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament."
- Henry Bessemer
(Related: Energy, Feet, Now, Temperament)
"If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas."
- Judy Biggert
(Related: Dependence, Energy, Risk)
"Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one."
- Judy Biggert
(Related: Energy, Independence, Summer)
"Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader."
- Judy Biggert
(Related: Leader, Dependence, Diplomacy, Energy, Future, World)
"Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for increased resources for research in the physical sciences and for the Department of Energy Office of Science in particular."
- Judy Biggert
(Related: Science, Congress, Energy, Office, Research)
"Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense."
- Jeff Bingaman
(Related: American, Energy, Today)
"I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality and energy and interest."
- Jacqueline Bisset
(Related: Energy, Interest, Vitality, Want)
"Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy."
- Bjork
(Related: Movies, Energy)
"On energy, we should be exploring for domestic sources of energy."
- Marsha Blackburn
(Related: Energy)
"Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years."
- Marsha Blackburn
(Related: Environmental, Congress, Country, Energy, Liberals, Past, Today, Years)
"Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy."
- Rod Blagojevich
(Related: Being, Countries, Energy)
"Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence."
- William Blake
(Related: Love, Energy, Existence, Hate, Reason)
"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."
- William Blake
(Related: Delight, Energy)
"I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works."
- Ken Blanchard
(Related: Experience, Life, Power, Blessings, Energy, Giving)
"What I am most proud of is the legacy of hope that FIFA and football leaves around the world. It makes all of the efforts and energy I pour into this job worth it."
- Sepp Blatter
(Related: Hope, Energy, Football, Job, World, Worth)
"You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere."
- Dave Blood
(Related: Control, Energy, Fool, Trying, Vanity, Waste, Will)
"And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings."
- Sherwood Boehlert
(Related: Energy)
"But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy."
- Sherwood Boehlert
(Related: Government, Action, Democracy, Energy, Result)
"I talked to a lot of employers who just are, are fearful of what's coming next out of Washington. It's all the spending, it's all the debt. It's their national energy tax, they want to call it cap and trade - more mandates, higher costs, more taxes. Their healthcare bill - more mandates, higher costs, higher taxes."
- John Boehner
(Related: Debt, Energy, Tax, Healthcare, Taxes, Trade, Want, Washington)
"If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up."
- Tommy Bolt
(Related: Energy, Waste)
"As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas."
- Julian Bond
(Related: Education, People, Energy, Jobs, Promise, World)
"I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: Corporate, Energy, Profit)
"Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple."
- Edward de Bono
(Related: Time, Attention, Being, Complexity, Energy, Justification, Waste)
"With gas prices nationally, and especially in our area, increasingly on the rise, it is more crucial then ever that we take steps to diversify our energy sources and reduce our dependency on foreign oil."
- Mary Bono
(Related: Energy, Oil)
"A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it."
- William Frederick Book
(Related: Energy, Man)
"Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment."
- Walther Bothe
(Related: Negative, Conservation, Energy)
"In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation."
- Walther Bothe
(Related: Energy, Quantity, State)
"So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off."
- Barbara Boxer
(Related: Work, Financial, Energy, Oil, Right, World)
"I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope."
- Barbara Boxer
(Related: People, Hope, Energy, Giving, Now, President)
"You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness."
- John Bradshaw
(Related: Energy, Passion, Shakespeare, Want)
"In terms of weapons, the best disarmament tool so far is nuclear energy. We have been taking down the Russian warheads, turning it into electricity. 10 percent of American electricity comes from decommissioned warheads."
- Stewart Brand
(Related: American, Electricity, Energy, Weapons)
"Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results."
- Phil Bredesen
(Related: Debate, Energy, Focus, Liberals, Results)
"We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records."
- Edie Brickell
(Related: Death, Energy, Play, Songs)
"There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that."
- Anita Brookner
(Related: Hope, Circumstances, Energy, Moments)
"The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Burden, Energy, Help, Man, May)
"All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors."
- David R. Brower
(Related: Growth, Energy, Pollution, Present, Will)
"It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it."
- David R. Brower
(Related: Time, Energy, Mankind)
"Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?"
- David R. Brower
(Related: Energy, Generations, Luxury, Present, Waste, Worth, Years)
"I will say this, - though: If it is true that fusion will put unlimited amounts of energy into our hands, then I'm worried. Our record on this score is extremely poor."
- David R. Brower
(Related: Energy, Poor, Will)
"I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living."
- David R. Brower
(Related: Energy, Fact, Giving, Living, May, Will)
"We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart."
- David R. Brower
(Related: Energy, Environment, Revolution, Tools)
"At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now."
- David R. Brower
(Related: Time, Committee, Energy, Now, Waste)
"Goals help you channel your energy into action."
- Les Brown
(Related: Action, Goals, Energy, Help)
"Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet."
- Sherrod Brown
(Related: Leadership, Blind, Congress, Energy, Eye, Republican, Trying)
"Love is energy of life."
- Robert Browning
(Related: Life, Love, Energy)
"Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks."
- Warren Buffett
(Related: Energy)
"When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing."
- Lois McMaster Bujold
(Related: Energy)
"I always recommend a sensible diet, including lots of carbohydrates and avoiding too much fat. Dancers don't need different fuel from other people - they just need more of it because they use more energy."
- Deborah Bull
(Related: Diet, People, Energy)
"What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
(Related: Men, Virtue, Energy, Future, Past)
"It seems as though there are Members in this body who want to filibuster just about everything we try to do, whether it is stopping judicial nominations, the Energy bill, or this Medicare bill."
- Jim Bunning
(Related: Body, Energy, Want)
"Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy."
- Anthony Burgess
(Related: People, Desire, Energy, Violence)
"Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy."
- Michael Burgess
(Related: Power, Economy, Electricity, Energy, Help, Needs, Will)
"It is critical that we have a comprehensive energy plan to provide affordable and reliable supplies of energy so that our economy will not be dependent on foreign sources of energy."
- Richard Burr
(Related: Economy, Energy, Will)
"I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs."
- Gary Busey
(Related: Men, Doctors, Energy, Jobs)
"I have walked away from friendships when I've realized that someone smiles to someone's face and talks about them the minute they walk out of a room. I have no room in my life for that kind of negative energy anymore."
- Sophia Bush
(Related: Life, Negative, Energy, Smiles)
"I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighting the reliance this country has on the gulf coast for our energy resources."
- Steve Buyer
(Related: Country, Energy, Weakness)
"If for no other reason than the energy crisis now facing this country, the federal government should be eager to become partners with us in rebuilding our city."
- Jane Byrne
(Related: Government, Country, Crisis, Energy, Now, Reason)
"The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership."
- Herman Cain
(Related: Leadership, Country, Energy, Independence, President, Right)
"If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground."
- Herman Cain
(Related: Energy, Independence, Oil, World)
"I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries."
- John Cameron
(Related: Medical, Time, Countries, Energy, Physics)
"I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions."
- Matt Cameron
(Related: Music, Life, Energy, Shame)
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
- Albert Camus
(Related: People, Energy)
"But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just so it can turn around and raise their energy rates."
- Maria Cantwell
(Related: Money, Energy, Fact)
"I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be the one who would describe the future and vibe everyone up."
- Jim Capaldi
(Related: Age, Energy, Future)
"With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security."
- Lois Capps
(Related: Country, Energy, Obvious, Pretty, Security, World)
"What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity."
- Lois Capps
(Related: Creativity, Abundance, Efficiency, Energy)
"Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not change gas prices by more than a penny a gallon, and this would be 20 years from now."
- Lois Capps
(Related: Change, America, Drilling, Energy, Now, Will, Years)
"It is time for a New Direction for our nation's energy policies."
- Lois Capps
(Related: Time, Direction, Energy, Nation)
"I have been working for years to promote a responsible energy policy that works to increase energy efficiency and invest in alternative and renewable energy sources."
- Lois Capps
(Related: Policy, Efficiency, Energy, Years)
"I will continue to work in Washington to oppose any efforts to expand drilling off our Coasts and to challenge my colleagues to adopt responsible energy policies."
- Lois Capps
(Related: Work, Challenge, Drilling, Energy, Washington, Will)
"In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis."
- Lois Capps
(Related: Crisis, Drilling, Energy, Reality)
"Americans are also feeling the effects of soaring energy prices at the gas pump. The double burden of these added expenses will be far too much for many families."
- Russ Carnahan
(Related: Americans, Burden, Energy, Feeling, Will)
"Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits."
- Russ Carnahan
(Related: Americans, Energy, Oil, Republicans, Years)
"The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%."
- Andrew Carnegie
(Related: Work, Ability, Energy, World)
"Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Habit, Energy, Feeling, Present, Waste)
"The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter."
- Barbara Cartland
(Related: Diet, Energy, Right)
"We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels."
- Silvia Cartwright
(Related: Energy, Forget)
"Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut down to a lower energy group - it was not fundamentally opening up new insights on the structure of matter. That required you to be in a higher league."
- John Henry Carver
(Related: Work, Energy, Physics)
"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."
- Johnny Cash
(Related: Time, Failure, Energy, Forget, Mistakes, Past, Space)
"I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate."
- Rosanne Cash
(Related: Desire, Emotions, Energy, Hatred, Revenge)
"The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world."
- Willa Cather
(Related: Energy, Evening, Sun, World)
"We are also looking to Canada as we continue to integrate the North American energy market."
- Paul Cellucci
(Related: American, Canada, Energy)
"We already get more energy from Canada than from any other foreign country."
- Paul Cellucci
(Related: Canada, Country, Energy)
"This ability to have reliable sources of energy and a reliable transmission of energy here in North America is critical for both of us and for Mexico as we want to keep our economies growing."
- Paul Cellucci
(Related: Ability, America, Energy, Want)
"There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China."
- Vinton Cerf
(Related: Energy)
"We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate."
- Steve Chabot
(Related: Energy, Help, Nothing, Oil, Senate)
"The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal."
- William Ellery Channing
(Related: Energy, Spirit, Youth)
"Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution."
- Teilhard de Chardin
(Related: Love, Blood, Energy, Evolution, Spiritual)
"Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy."
- Leroy Chiao
(Related: Energy, Space)
"Taking risks gives me energy."
- Jay Chiat
(Related: Energy)
"You can only hate someone whom you have the capacity to love, because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up the enough energy to hate him."
- Sri Chinmoy
(Related: Love, Energy, Hate)
"For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills."
- Chris Chocola
(Related: America, Energy, Today)
"It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon."
- Kate Chopin
(Related: Earth, Energy, Stars)
"Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace."
- Kate Chopin
(Related: Power, People, Energy, Motive, Personality)
"In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful."
- Helena Christensen
(Related: Energy, Trying)
"The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Energy, Learning, Profession, Want)
"I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart."
- Sandra Cisneros
(Related: Family, Heart, Ability, Community, Energy, Friends, Learning, Writer)
"I feel blessed to be here representing our country and carrying out th research of scientists around the world... I hope you could feel the positive energy that beamed to the whole planet as we glided over."
- Laurel Clark
(Related: Hope, Positive, Country, Energy, Research, Scientists, World)
"If I would be happy, I would be a very bad ball player. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body."
- Roberto Clemente
(Related: Body, Energy)
"Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy."
- Montgomery Clift
(Related: Failure, Artist, Energy, Misery)
"When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page."
- William J. Clinton
(Related: Energy, Now, Office)
"Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now."
- William J. Clinton
(Related: Finance, Money, Business, America, Banks, Corporations, Energy, Jobs, Manufacturing, Now, Right, Today)
"I think there are certain actors that have that kind of energy about them, that taking over a room energy."
- Glenn Close
(Related: Actors, Energy)
"But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability."
- Jim Clyburn
(Related: Environmental, Health, Benefits, Dependence, Energy, Nation, National security, Oil)
"Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy especially for those in rural America. Our program invests in clean energy alternatives and provides energy assistance for those in need."
- Jim Clyburn
(Related: America, Democrats, Economy, Energy, Oil, Years)
"Most of my time, energy and other resources I use to nurture my projects."
- Benjamin Cohen
(Related: Time, Energy, Projects)
"It takes a lot of energy to teach."
- Dabney Coleman
(Related: Energy)
"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Virtue, Energy, Vice)
"The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die."
- Barry Commoner
(Related: Environmental, People, Agriculture, Crisis, Energy, Production)
"If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond."
- Ray Conniff
(Related: Love, Art, People, Energy, Will)
"When I first hit the scene, it was just a lot of go, go, go, go, go. I have a lot of natural energy anyway, but it was over the top."
- Dane Cook
(Related: Energy, First)
"The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation."
- Charles Horton Cooley
(Related: Time, Control, Energy, Fact, Rivalry)
"The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you."
- Eric Allin Cornell
(Related: Energy)
"I've always stayed pretty fit. I felt I needed to give myself energy by exercising and things like that."
- Caroline Corr
(Related: Energy, Pretty)
"Our current energy policy is bankrupt."
- Jim Costa
(Related: Policy, Energy)
"In addition to the clean coal provisions, the energy conference agreement contains provisions instrumental in helping increase conservation and lowering consumption."
- Jerry Costello
(Related: Agreement, Conservation, Energy)
"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."
- Norman Cousins
(Related: Life, Hope, Energy, Fact, Sense)
"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt."
- Norman Cousins
(Related: Thought, Action, Energy, Loss, Present, Universe)
"From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters."
- Deborah Cox
(Related: People, Beginning, End, Energy)
"It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy."
- Peter Coyote
(Related: Change, Home, America, Anxiety, Energy, Walking)
"When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal."
- Yvonne Craig
(Related: Energy)
"It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form."
- Hart Crane
(Related: Time, Energy, Order, Patience)
"Most of the reason I work out now is not for the external - it's for how I feel. I find working out gives me more energy. I started eight days after he was born."
- Cindy Crawford
(Related: Work, Energy, Now, Reason)
"And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them."
- Cameron Crowe
(Related: Idea, Ideas, Energy, Talking)
"I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance."
- Tom Cruise
(Related: Life, Endurance, Energy)
"The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting."
- James Daly
(Related: Business, Energy)
"The stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people's spirits and enthusiam are, and where their intellectual energy is."
- James Daly
(Related: People, Energy, Spirits)
"Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves."
- Mitch Daniels
(Related: Energy, Job, Jobs, Necessity, Potential, Production)
"We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources."
- Mitch Daniels
(Related: Energy, Production)
"Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make."
- Mitch Daniels
(Related: Government, Money, Time, Growth, Energy, Years)
"Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy."
- Blythe Danner
(Related: Time, Mother, Being, Children, Conservation, Energy, Garden, Recycling)
"Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes."
- Blythe Danner
(Related: Work, Energy)
"You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours."
- Blythe Danner
(Related: Movies, Discipline, Energy, Night, Theatre)
"I just feed off the energy of the audience."
- Larry David
(Related: Energy)
"I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter."
- Larry David
(Related: People, Energy, Laughter)
"What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity."
- Siobhan Davies
(Related: People, Creativity, Energy, Excitement, Now)
"As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression."
- Angela Davis
(Related: Alliance, Energy, Repression)
"Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market."
- Gray Davis
(Related: Power, Energy, Law, Meaning, Question)
"They're the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and they will not do that. They will not pull the trigger."
- Gray Davis
(Related: Energy, Will)
"Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here."
- Gray Davis
(Related: Power, Buying, Credit, Energy)
"Meanwhile, people have to join us and fight back against the federal government that has dropped the ball, that is in bed with these energy companies, that wants them to make more money than they've made before."
- Gray Davis
(Related: Government, Money, People, Bed, Energy, Fight)
"I'm doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California."
- Gray Davis
(Related: Government, People, Building, Conservation, Energy, Plants)
"In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?"
- Humphry Davy
(Related: Knowledge, Cause, Energy, May, Present, Property, State)
"There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable."
- Robin Day
(Related: Energy, Responsibility)
"I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee."
- Kool Moe Dee
(Related: Time, Battle, Energy, Giving)
"I've been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21... younger men are just more fun. I like their energy. I've always been kind of young for my age."
- Dana Delany
(Related: Age, Dating, Men, Energy, Fun)
"The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry."
- Rosa DeLauro
(Related: Energy, Legislation, Oil, Reform, Republicans)
"The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects."
- Rosa DeLauro
(Related: Building, Efficiency, Energy, Office, Projects, Public)
"The State Energy Program, it provides grants to States and directs funding to State energy offices. The States use these grants to address their energy priorities, program funding to adopt emerging renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies."
- Rosa DeLauro
(Related: Energy, Priorities, State, states)
"You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration."
- Catherine Deneuve
(Related: Time, Character, Energy, Waiting)
"Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and has the potential to become an inexpensive source of energy for neighborhoods, light and heavy duty vehicles, and industry."
- Charlie Dent
(Related: Duty, Energy, Light, Potential, Universe)
"We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy."
- Charlie Dent
(Related: Dependence, Energy)
"There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind."
- Annie Dillard
(Related: Energy, Spiritual, Wind)
"I mean, when you've had a problem in your past, whether it's attributed directly to high cholesterol or not, you want to lower your cholesterol. You want to eat healthy. You want to feel healthy. You want to have a little more energy."
- Mike Ditka
(Related: Energy, Past, Want)
"For infants and toddlers learning and living are the same thing. If they feel secure, treasured, loved, their own energy and curiosity will bring them new understanding and new skills."
- Amy Laura Dombro
(Related: Curiosity, Energy, Learning, Living, Understanding, Will)
"Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast."
- Pete Domenici
(Related: Country, Energy, Reality)
"I expect an energy bill to increase and diversify supply and stabilize energy prices - not drive up energy costs in one part of the country to subsidize energy in another region."
- Pete Domenici
(Related: Country, Energy)
"Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems."
- Pete Domenici
(Related: Leadership, American, Energy, Oil, Problems)
"On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Being, Energy, Stress)
"It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it."
- Daisy Donovan
(Related: Time, Work, God, Dress, Energy)
"I quit comics because I got completely sick of it. I was drawing comics all the time and didn't have the time or energy to do anything else. That got to me in the end."
- Julie Doucet
(Related: Time, End, Energy)
"The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy."
- Julia Louis Dreyfus
(Related: Leadership, War, Countries, Crisis, Energy, Global warming, Oil, Terrorism, World)
"Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them."
- John Drinkwater
(Related: Poetry, Work, Drama, Energy)
"When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff."
- Hilary Duff
(Related: Music, Being, Crowds, Energy, Feeling, Kids, Night, Word)
"At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I would get really upset, but now it's just not worth my energy."
- Hilary Duff
(Related: Family, People, Energy, First, Now, Press, Talk, Worth)
"My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy."
- Carol Ann Duffy
(Related: Energy, Prose)
"I try to manage my time to conserve energy."
- Karen Duffy
(Related: Time, Energy)
"God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence."
- Olympia Dukakis
(Related: Experience, God, Energy)
"It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else."
- Lawrence Durrell
(Related: Energy, Neurosis)
"Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you're feeding on people's energy."
- Fred Durst
(Related: People, Being, Energy)
"I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work."
- John Dyer
(Related: Work, Energy)
"We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life."
- John Eaton
(Related: Life, Energy)
"Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world."
- Richard Eberhart
(Related: Poetry, Power, Country, Crisis, Energy, Potential, Will, World)
"The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment."
- Roger Ebert
(Related: People, Energy, First, Press, Right, Want)
"I had bags of energy as a kid."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Energy)
"Information comes through to me in 3 basic ways seen, hearing, and feeling the energy of the person that's crossed over. In which it is a symbolic type of language."
- John Edward
(Related: Energy, Feeling, Hearing, Information, Language)
"The process of receiving information for me is seeing, hearing, and feeling their energy in my frame of reference. That doesn't mean I see the individual, unfortunately."
- John Edward
(Related: Energy, Feeling, Hearing, Information)
"I don't look at this as a religious based thing. To me this is energy based."
- John Edward
(Related: Energy, Religious)
"Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences - and it happens all the time - where for some reason the energy doesn't connect and, since the film is very personal, obviously I am made to feel very vulnerable by that."
- Atom Egoyan
(Related: Time, Audiences, Energy, Film, Reason)
"These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level."
- Atom Egoyan
(Related: Trust, Work, Energy, Will)
"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Energy, Necessity)
"There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Related: Love, Faith, Intelligence, America, Cure, Energy, Freedom, Nothing, Wrong)
"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."
- Duke Ellington
(Related: Energy)
"All the fans being here got my adrenaline going. I definitely got a burst of energy from them."
- Sean Elliott
(Related: Being, Energy, Fans)
"Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play."
- Jon English
(Related: Music, Body, Energy, Play)
"I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it."
- Todd English
(Related: Sports, Action, Coach, Cooking, Energy, Kitchen)
"I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy."
- Brian Eno
(Related: People, Countries, Energy, Ireland)
"Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies."
- Delia Ephron
(Related: Enthusiasm, Children, Enemy, Energy, Help)
"Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it."
- Arthur Erickson
(Related: Art, Building, Energy)
"I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series."
- Jim Evans
(Related: Enthusiasm, Energy, World)
"Ethanol has reduced our nation's dependence on imported energy, created thousands of jobs, reduced air pollution, and increased energy security. And renewable fuels cost less at the pump. It is a growth fuel that fuels opportunities for millions of Americans."
- Lane Evans
(Related: Growth, Americans, Dependence, Energy, Jobs, Nation, Pollution, Security)
"I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks."
- Adam Faith
(Related: Financial, Energy, Mail, Nothing, Years)
"Wealth flows from energy and ideas."
- William Feather
(Related: Ideas, Wealth, Energy)
"The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes."
- William Feather
(Related: Energy, Reward, Taxes)
"An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work."
- William Feather
(Related: Work, Idea, Ability, Energy, Man, Worth)
"We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate."
- Russ Feingold
(Related: Debate, Energy, Legislation, Open, Public)
"You say a line and you wait for them to laugh, then you say another line and you wait... It felt weird to me. But it's interesting and the energy is almost like theatre, I suppose, with all the people there."
- Sherilyn Fenn
(Related: People, Energy, Theatre)
"I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other."
- Harvey Fierstein
(Related: Power, Positive, Care, Energy, Prayer, World)
"When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems."
- Jon Fishman
(Related: Food, Work, People, Energy, Fun, Man, Problems, Want, World)
"You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race."
- Emerson Fittipaldi
(Related: Heart, Energy, Pressure, Race, Relax)
"Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force."
- Gustave Flaubert
(Related: Genius, Energy, Force, Goodness)
"When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance."
- Peggy Fleming
(Related: Music, Performance, Energy, Flirtation)
"A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created."
- Mark Foley
(Related: Energy, Office, Study, Will)
"If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work."
- Peter Fonda
(Related: Work, Knowledge, Actor, Ego, Energy, Writer)
"It takes a lot of energy to work, in general, especially if you're the lead in something."
- Faith Ford
(Related: Work, Energy)
"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas."
- Henry Ford
(Related: Ideas, Enthusiasm, Energy, Eyes, Stars, Will)
"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."
- Henry Ford
(Related: Time, People, Energy, Problems, Trying)
"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Energy, Persistence)
"Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated."
- Jerome Isaac Friedman
(Related: Effort, Energy, Physics, Research, Students)
"Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government."
- Milton Friedman
(Related: Government, Work, Energy)
"We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that."
- Thomas Friedman
(Related: Energy)
"At first, I am giving energy to the creation, but later the creation seems to be giving energy to me."
- Robert Fritz
(Related: Creation, Energy, First, Giving)
"When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who's incredibly serene, I can't seem to stop sleeping because she's asleep all the time. It's a pattern."
- Sadie Frost
(Related: Time, Daughter, Energy, First)
"In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy."
- John Frusciante
(Related: Music, People, Energy)
"Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth."
- Kenichi Fukui
(Related: Peace, Fear, Earth, Energy, Mankind, Unity)
"It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy."
- Margaret Fuller
(Related: Love, Truth, Energy, Error, Existence, Woman)
"I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting."
- Eva Gabor
(Related: Energy, Traveling)
"I learned early that you only have so much energy to give. You have to spend it correctly."
- Eva Gabor
(Related: Energy)
"I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy."
- Liam Gallagher
(Related: Money, People, Energy, Living)
"I love New York. But the energy is so intense."
- John Galliano
(Related: Love, Energy)
"I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration."
- Victor Garber
(Related: Energy, Man)
"Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace."
- Jerry Garcia
(Related: Quality, Energy, Road, Want)
"Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles."
- Bill Gates
(Related: Electricity, Energy, Miracles, Today)
"Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness."
- Shakti Gawain
(Related: Time, Power, Energy, Guidance, Loss, Sense, Spiritual)
"All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least."
- Richard Gere
(Related: Sacrifice, Energy, Suffering)
"A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage."
- James J. Gibson
(Related: Cause, Energy, May)
"It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work."
- Jerry Gillies
(Related: Work, Beliefs, Energy, Succeed)
"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need."
- Jerry Gillies
(Related: Imagination, Energy, Will)
"We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability."
- Paul Gillmor
(Related: Burden, Commitment, Conservation, Country, Electricity, Energy, Oil)
"While there are many influences on gas prices in America, I believe the passage of a national energy bill will help relieve this burden on our country."
- Paul Gillmor
(Related: America, Burden, Country, Energy, Help, Will)
"We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one."
- Paul Gillmor
(Related: Policy, Country, Energy, Trying)
"Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks."
- Paul Gillmor
(Related: Creation, Efficiency, Energy, Jobs, Oil, Production, Protection)
"An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job."
- Newt Gingrich
(Related: Americans, Electricity, Energy, Tax, Job, Living, May, Will)
"The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist."
- Danny Glover
(Related: War, People, Hope, America, Energy, Iraq, Moments, Occupation, Reason, Trade)
"Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy."
- Vincent Van Gogh
(Related: Love, Difficulties, Energy)
"Crime is naught but misdirected energy."
- Emma Goldman
(Related: Crime, Energy)
"The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience."
- Andy Goldsworthy
(Related: Difference, Energy, Theatre)
"Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured."
- Andy Goldsworthy
(Related: Energy)
"As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone."
- Andy Goldsworthy
(Related: Work, Appearance, Energy, Trying)
"I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another."
- Andy Goldsworthy
(Related: Life, Earth, Energy, France, Running, World)
"The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it."
- Andy Goldsworthy
(Related: Artist, Energy, Public)
"The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States."
- Virgil Goode
(Related: Americans, Energy, Fact, Independence, Priorities, Rank, Security, Sense, states, United)
"Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy."
- Virgil Goode
(Related: Work, Energy, Pursuit, states, United)
"Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements."
- Virgil Goode
(Related: Technology, Development, Country, Energy, states, United)
"However, it may occur that we will find ourselves using a variety of fuel sources to give us the energy we need support our lifestyles and boost our economy."
- Virgil Goode
(Related: Economy, Energy, May, Support, Variety, Will)
"I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy."
- Al Gore
(Related: Energy, Will)
"That's not to say Eddie's never done anything malicious. But he never grabbed power for power's sake. His position was gained only because he has that energy, and that's naturally where he ended up."
- Stone Gossard
(Related: Power, Energy)
"The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the energy of a tornado. But the hardest thing is trying to get dialogue out in all of that."
- Mark-Paul Gosselaar
(Related: Challenge, Energy, Machines, Right, Trying, Wind)
"We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying."
- Sue Grafton
(Related: Nature, People, Energy, Passion)
"The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be."
- Lindsey Graham
(Related: Energy, Nation)
"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique."
- Martha Graham
(Related: Life, Time, Action, Energy, Expression, Force, Vitality)
"You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world."
- Sheilah Graham
(Related: Energy, Skin, Want, World)
"With respect to the environment in our state and our state's future - in addition to water which is very important here - I think it is crucial for him to make a sincere commitment to energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, by helping us to produce those cars of the future."
- Jennifer Granholm
(Related: Commitment, Efficiency, Energy, Environment, Future, Respect, State, Water)
"As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry."
- Jennifer Granholm
(Related: History, Country, Efficiency, Energy, Geography, State)
"That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here."
- Jennifer Granholm
(Related: Future, Right)
"There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to do is to go there and get it."
- Wilson Greatbatch
(Related: Earth, Energy, Moon)
"Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option."
- Wilson Greatbatch
(Related: Travel, Ability, Energy, Light, Scientists, Space, Will)
"When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place."
- Wilson Greatbatch
(Related: Car, Energy, First, Waste)
"France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently."
- Wilson Greatbatch
(Related: Energy, France, Safety)
"I have long felt that an investment by the Department of Energy of a million dollars a year for the next 30 years would pay a higher return than any other investment this country could ever make."
- Wilson Greatbatch
(Related: Country, Energy, Investment, Years)
"Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe."
- Germaine Greer
(Related: Survival, Energy, Environment, Trying)
"You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there."
- Adrian Grenier
(Related: Actor, Energy)
"I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me."
- Zane Grey
(Related: Achievement, Energy, Lies)
"The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology."
- Stanislav Grof
(Related: Energy, Psychology, Radical)
"As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions."
- Stanislav Grof
(Related: Government, Energy, Project, Research)
"Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote."
- George Gurdjieff
(Related: Negative, Energy, Laughter, Poison)
"Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse."
- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
(Related: Life, Energy)
"The source of this energy is the sun's radiation."
- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
(Related: Energy, Sun)
"A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure."
- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
(Related: Energy, Living)
"Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about."
- Marilyn Hacker
(Related: Energy, Writing)
"Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly."
- Chuck Hagel
(Related: Policy, Opportunity, Defense, Energy, Foreign policy, Interest, Needs, Open, Support, Will, Windows)
"We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays."
- Edward Hall
(Related: Energy)
"A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate."
- Christopher Hampton
(Related: Life, Belief, Being, Disappointments, Energy, Literature, Result, World)
"I'm shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it's probably good - I get to go home and sleep."
- Neil Patrick Harris
(Related: Home, People, Energy, Sleep)
"When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now."
- Dan Hawkins
(Related: Energy, Now)
"We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually challenging. We needed somewhere to put our energy to show that we were growing, and as we started to achieve this, people came to hear us musically."
- Ronnie Hawkins
(Related: People, Energy, Musicians)
"I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required."
- Rutherford B. Hayes
(Related: Business, Education, Energy, First, Sense)
"The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning."
- Roy Haynes
(Related: Leader, Energy, Meaning, Youth)
"I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be."
- Ofra Haza
(Related: Power, God, Energy, Smile, Support)
"If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you."
- Levon Helm
(Related: Heart, Performance, Energy, Play, Song, Will)
"Research has shown that even small amounts of processed food alter the chemical balance in our brain and cause negative mood swings along with noticeable dips ill energy."
- Marilu Henner
(Related: Food, Negative, Balance, Cause, Energy, Research)
"Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients - foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes - contribute to greater energy and positive emotions."
- Marilu Henner
(Related: Negative, Positive, Emotions, Energy)
"It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish."
- Robert Herrick
(Related: Happiness, Energy, Interest, Man, Open, Pursuit, Wit)
"The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement."
- Victor Francis Hess
(Related: Energy, Improvement, May)
"In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order."
- Walter Rudolf Hess
(Related: Being, Energy, Fact, Order)
"I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue."
- John Hickenlooper
(Related: Environmental, Energy, Will)
"All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth."
- Napoleon Hill
(Related: Imagination, Life, Wealth, Accomplishment, Energy, Mind)
"A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy."
- Howard Hodgkin
(Related: Artists, Energy, Illness)
"For over 15 years, through the clean coal programs of the Department of Energy, the Federal Government has been a solid partner, working jointly with private companies and the states to develop and demonstrate a new generation of environmentally clean technology using coal."
- Tim Holden
(Related: Government, Technology, Energy, states, Years)
"As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy."
- Chris Van Hollen
(Related: Education, Health, War, Quality, People, Policy, American, Care, Children, Congress, End, Energy, Iraq, Needs, Retirement, Secur)
"I think America understands that energy security is a very important part of our national security. But if we are going to address energy security in a meaningful way going forward, we need to do it in a new manner. We cannot just be doing the same old thing."
- Chris Van Hollen
(Related: America, Energy, National security, Old)
"We waste an awful lot of energy as a Nation through inefficient use of energy."
- Chris Van Hollen
(Related: Energy, Nation, Waste)
"If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him."
- John W. Holt, Jr.
(Related: Energy, Force, Will)
"If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Energy)
"What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days."
- David F. Houston
(Related: Energy, Loss, Man, Support, Will)
"I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger."
- Arianna Huffington
(Related: Time, Defeat, Energy, Now)
"Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization."
- Cordell Hull
(Related: Science, Technology, Civilization, Energy, Man, Military)
"I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer."
- Jane D. Hull
(Related: Energy, Summer, Want)
"Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed."
- Joseph Hume
(Related: Country, Energy, Giving, May, Now, Population, Skill)
"My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc."
- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
(Related: Power, Ideas, Country, Energy, Revolution, Medicine, Sense)
"But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing."
- Isabelle Huppert
(Related: Energy, Nothing)
"The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being."
- William Hurt
(Related: Financial, Being, Energy, Mediocrity)
"In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive."
- Lee Iacocca
(Related: Anger, Positive, Adversity, Energy, Stress)
"Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy."
- Dean Inge
(Related: Action, Completion, Energy, Prayer, Will)
"We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country."
- Jay Inslee
(Related: Environmental, Policy, Country, Day, Earth, Energy, Spirit)
"Renewable energy also creates more jobs than other sources of energy - most of these will be created in the struggling manufacturing sector, which will pioneer the new energy future by investment that allows manufacturers to retool and adopt new technologies and methods."
- Jay Inslee
(Related: Energy, Future, Investment, Jobs, Manufacturing, Will)
"Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000."
- Jay Inslee
(Related: Effect, Energy, Enron, Fact)
"With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans."
- Jay Inslee
(Related: Family, Technology, Action, American, Energy, Jobs, Manufacturing, Order, Wage, World)
"It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes."
- Muhammad Iqbal
(Related: Aspirations, Destiny, Energy, Man, Now, Universe)
"I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy."
- Patricia Ireland
(Related: Enthusiasm, Optimism, Pessimism, Cynicism, Energy)
"Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be."
- Jeremy Irons
(Related: Life, Time, Energy, Old, Paris)
"There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to."
- Kazuo Ishiguro
(Related: Time, Energy, Writer)
"Also, for a team as strong as like ours, the Tour will always remain the biggest goal of the whole year, and personally I will certainly concentrate most of my energy on this race."
- Laurent Jalabert
(Related: Goal, Energy, Race, Will)
"And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money."
- Michael Patrick Jann
(Related: Money, Energy, Style, Tension)
"You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists!"
- Joseph Jarman
(Related: Thought, Idea, Awards, Energy, Interest, Jazz)
"The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure."
- Valerie Jarrett
(Related: Health, Money, Education, American, Care, Energy, Independence, Jobs, Will)
"The Nation needs to take a new approach to our energy problems."
- Bobby Jindal
(Related: Energy, Nation, Needs, Problems)
"We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production."
- Bobby Jindal
(Related: Energy, Mercy, Oil, Production)
"Thirty percent of the Nation's energy comes off the gulf coast."
- Bobby Jindal
(Related: Energy, Nation)
"What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?"
- Lara St. John
(Related: Music, Life, Energy, Passion, Popular, Sensuality)
"When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy."
- Dwayne Johnson
(Related: Energy)
"By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil."
- Tim Johnson
(Related: Encouraging, America, Dependence, Economy, Energy, Help, Oil, Wind)
"Being out in that heat for two weeks definitely drains your energy."
- Cobi Jones
(Related: Being, Energy)
"You know what you are getting into, but being out in that heat for two weeks definitely drains your energy."
- Cobi Jones
(Related: Being, Energy)
"I try to give positive energy in all my shows."
- Curtis Jones
(Related: Positive, Energy)
"Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit."
- Howard Mumford Jones
(Related: Progress, Optimism, American, Energy, Spirit)
"I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors."
- James Earl Jones
(Related: Actors, Army, Beginning, Civil rights, Energy, World)
"I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future."
- Van Jones
(Related: Time, Conscience, Energy, Fighting, Future, Past)
"Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it's also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates."
- Van Jones
(Related: Government, History, Politics, American, Being, Conservative, Energy, Global warming, Poverty, President, Unemployment, Value, V)
"Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing."
- H. Stanley Judd
(Related: Failure, Challenge, Energy, Trying, Waste)
"My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time."
- Dean Kamen
(Related: Time, Thought, Energy, Running, Worry, Years)
"I only have so much energy, so something had to go. This is why, at the end of the day, I've preserved my sanity for the children and also manage to do my best at work."
- Kiri Te Kanawa
(Related: Work, Children, Day, End, Energy, Sanity)
"High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after another thing, after another. You can really open yourself up comedically, which is fun."
- Michael Keaton
(Related: Energy, Fun, Open)
"It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui."
- Helen Keller
(Related: Time, Men, People, Devil, Energy, Fighting)
"Let's face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that's different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I'm going to be a better chef."
- Thomas Keller
(Related: Energy)
"It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation."
- Walt Kelly
(Related: Energy, Intention, Reality)
"One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer."
- Caroline Kennedy
(Related: Love, Mother, Brother, Energy, Gifts, Language, Libraries, Literature, Old, Open)
"Ethanol and biodiesel allow people to burn a cleaner form of energy."
- Mark Kennedy
(Related: People, Energy)
"It's always been an ebb and flow of interest and energy."
- Michael Kennedy
(Related: Energy, Interest)
"Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries."
- Corita Kent
(Related: Love, Energy, Will)
"I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important."
- John F. Kerry
(Related: Poetry, Anger, Energy, Pretty, Rap)
"There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Energy)
"Maybe I'm being philosophical and spiritual, but I believe that if you put negative energy out there that that is what will come back."
- Persis Khambatta
(Related: Negative, Being, Energy, Spiritual, Will)
"We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not."
- Ron Kind
(Related: Leadership, Goals, Alliance, Energy)
"I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring."
- Carole King
(Related: Energy, Inspiring, Listening)
"My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on these kids, having the same break I had as a high school girl."
- Sally Kirkland
(Related: People, Acting, Energy, Kids, School, Years)
"Once the World Cup preparations begin there will hardly be an opportunity to do so, since we'll have to put all our energy into the team. We coaches have a list of priorities and dealing with the media isn't in the top five."
- Jurgen Klinsmann
(Related: Opportunity, Coaches, Energy, Media, Priorities, Will, World)
"I train for one-and-a-half hours every day in order to keep my energy level high."
- Jurgen Klinsmann
(Related: Day, Energy, Order)
"We have relationships and know the exact outcome with that person because we don't deal with ourselves and don't deal with our issues and end up being attracted to the same person or the person is attracted to our energy."
- Boris Kodjoe
(Related: Being, End, Energy, Relationships)
"In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed."
- Walter Kohn
(Related: Energy)
"We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Being, Energy, State)
"I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore."
- Thomas Kretschmann
(Related: Time, Desire, Energy)
"At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing."
- Bill Kreutzmann
(Related: Business, People, Energy, First)
"So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output."
- Talib Kweli
(Related: Inspiration, Energy)
"There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them."
- Lactantius
(Related: Intelligence, Being, Energy, Reflection)
"If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power."
- Imre Lakatos
(Related: Faith, Power, Science, Truth, Energy, Lies, Theory)
"So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity."
- Jack LaLanne
(Related: People, Strength, Day, Energy, Exercise, Vitality)
"Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key."
- Jack LaLanne
(Related: Change, Strength, Energy, Flexibility, Focus, Key, Rest)
"The sun stands for energy and youth, which is what I thought the circus should be about."
- Guy Laliberte
(Related: Thought, Energy, Sun, Youth)
"We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Energy, Needs)
"I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea."
- Cyndi Lauper
(Related: Idea, Angels, Earth, Energy, Feeling, Feet, Force, Singing, Stars)
"Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities."
- Kenneth Lay
(Related: Food, Energy, Today)
"My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out."
- Timothy Leary
(Related: Life, People, Advice, Energy, Sense, Today)
"Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things."
- Patrice Leconte
(Related: People, Energy)
"I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed."
- Annie Leibovitz
(Related: Nature, Emotion, Energy, Land, Living, Magnificence)
"I am with you heart and soul in the great cause to which you are devoting all your energy and your life."
- Frank Leslie
(Related: Life, Soul, Heart, Cause, Energy)
"Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film."
- Jonathan Lethem
(Related: Love, Energy, Film, Literature, Nostalgia)
"I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there."
- Jonathan Lethem
(Related: Love, Absence, Energy, Writing, Yearning)
"The provisions contained in this plan will ensure that the United States has the infrastructure necessary to meet energy needs through future decades, easing dependence on unpredictable foreign oil markets, and creating thousands of new jobs for American workers."
- Ron Lewis
(Related: American, Dependence, Energy, Future, Jobs, Needs, Oil, states, United, Will, Workers)
"By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country."
- Ron Lewis
(Related: Encouraging, Conservation, Country, Energy, Future, Oil, Production)
"Today's vote ensures that coal will continue to be an important part of our nation's energy policy, with strong parameters to make it cleaner and more efficient."
- Ron Lewis
(Related: Policy, Energy, Nation, Today, Vote, Will)
"The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom."
- Willard Libby
(Related: Knowledge, Energy, Future, Understanding, World)
"It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable."
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
(Related: Energy)
"Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight."
- Dan Lipinski
(Related: American, Country, End, Energy, Feeling, Now, Right, Sight)
"The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure."
- Dan Lipinski
(Related: Energy, Fact, National security, World)
"Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity."
- Dan Lipinski
(Related: Change, Climate, Climate change, Dependence, Energy, Environment, Loss, Problems)
"The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use."
- Dan Lipinski
(Related: Environmental, Benefits, Energy, Water)
"The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence."
- Dan Lipinski
(Related: Car, Development, Energy, Example, Independence, Help, Will)
"And when these advances are made, hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous."
- Dan Lipinski
(Related: Electricity, Energy, Future, Needs, Possibilities)
"Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow."
- Dan Lipinski
(Related: Strategy, Drilling, Energy, Today, Tomorrow)
"Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe."
- Dan Lipinski
(Related: Environmental, Energy, Future, National security, Needs, Promise, Universe)
"As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country's energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells."
- Dan Lipinski
(Related: Country, Energy, Independence, Potential, Solution)
"The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source."
- El Lissitzky
(Related: Superiority, Virtue, Energy, Expression, Man, Old, Sun, World)
"Since we didn't use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy."
- Lucy Liu
(Related: Work, Ability, Energy)
"Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy."
- Seth Lloyd
(Related: Energy, Memory, Space)
"But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter."
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
(Related: Life, Energy)
"Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else."
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
(Related: Life, Energy)
"Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy."
- Bjorn Lomborg
(Related: Time, Energy, Global warming, Now, Research, Right)
"Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world."
- Lawrence G. Lovasik
(Related: Power, Blessings, Building, Energy, Force, Words, World)
"In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points."
- Rich Lowry
(Related: Energy)
"Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it."
- Josh Lucas
(Related: Comedy, Drama, Energy)
"Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country."
- Richard Lugar
(Related: Environmental, Performance, Benefits, Country, Energy, Independence, Key)
"I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem."
- Loretta Lynn
(Related: Energy)
"A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?"
- Hugh Mackay
(Related: Autumn, Day, Easter, Energy, Melancholy, Spirit, Spring, Vitality)
"The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such."
- Og Mandino
(Related: Art, End, Energy, Mankind)
"With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working together, and swinging together, that's a whole other kind of energy."
- Chuck Mangione
(Related: People, Energy)
"Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world."
- Camryn Manheim
(Related: Positive, Energy, World)
"I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice."
- Camryn Manheim
(Related: People, Energy, Justice, Law, Struggle)
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in."
- Katherine Mansfield
(Related: Life, Energy, Regret, Waste)
"Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing."
- Ray Manzarek
(Related: Charm, Energy, Man, Mind, Old, Racing, Wit, Years)
"With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing."
- Robert Mapplethorpe
(Related: Energy, Moments, Photography)
"Stable energy prices and enhanced national security will only come when we increase domestic energy resources, which was accomplished today with the opening of ANWR."
- Kenny Marchant
(Related: Energy, National security, Today, Will)
"The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of national security."
- Kenny Marchant
(Related: Dependence, Energy, National security, Now, Oil)
"We must become more energy independent. The development of ANWR will assist in this goal."
- Kenny Marchant
(Related: Development, Goal, Energy, Will)
"There is no reason not to support energy exploration in ANWR."
- Kenny Marchant
(Related: Energy, Exploration, Reason, Support)
"A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires."
- Orison Swett Marden
(Related: Successful, Energy, Environment, Force, Man)
"You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination."
- Ralph Marston
(Related: Determination, Positive, Energy, Frustration, Now, Possibilities)
"Before, I was so stupid. But, you know, when you have friends who died on the street, you say, okay, let's calm down. It's not the kind of energy I want to have in life. I want to go slower, and longer."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Life, Energy, Friends, Want)
"With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft."
- Henri Matisse
(Related: Energy, Witchcraft)
"From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band."
- Brian May
(Related: Time, Beginning, Energy, Queen)
"I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Energy)
"At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Age, Energy, Help, Now)
"Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create."
- David McCallum
(Related: Fear, Conformity, Energy)
"My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling."
- John McCarthy
(Related: Energy, Meetings, Recycling)
"The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format."
- Craig McCracken
(Related: Charm, Energy, Mind, Pretty, Trying)
"Well I think that's probably one of a few, where I grew up in the City of New York, it's got a lot of energy, my parents are Irish-American so there was a bit of yelling going on in my house but it seemed normal."
- John McEnroe
(Related: Energy, Irish, Parents)
"Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind."
- Bryant H. McGill
(Related: Soul, Enthusiasm, Energy, Force, Mind)
"There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it's like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there's a certain energy that attracts that."
- Rose McGowan
(Related: Death, Family, Cause, Energy, Wonder)
"My hope is that we continue to do an even better job in terms of our nation's energy policy, so that we may even further reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil and take better care of our environment in the process."
- John M. McHugh
(Related: Policy, Hope, Care, Energy, Environment, Job, May, Nation, Oil)
"There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it."
- Ian McKellen
(Related: Life, Actor, Energy, Right)
"Yet since the 1950s, little has been done to prepare for our country's current or future energy needs."
- Cathy McMorris
(Related: Country, Energy, Future, Needs)
"We depend on our rivers and dams for energy, transportation, irrigation and recreation and I will continue this year to fight for what's best for the Pacific Northwest."
- Cathy McMorris
(Related: Energy, Fight, Recreation, Rivers, Will)
"The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams."
- Cathy McMorris
(Related: Energy)
"Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance."
- Margaret Mead
(Related: Love, Dance, Energy, Fossil fuel, Prayer, Song)
"What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion."
- Marty Meehan
(Related: America, Energy, Oil)
"I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy."
- Christopher Meloni
(Related: Love, Children, Energy, Joy, Reason)
"Let's use the energy of this historic year to propel us toward our shared vision of a greater Boston."
- Thomas Menino
(Related: Vision, Boston, Energy)
"I miss performing before a live audience - the energy and excitement - there's nothing to compare with it."
- Rita Mero
(Related: Energy, Excitement, Nothing)
"I feel a lot healthier when I'm having sex. Physically. I feel all these jitters when I wake up in the morning. Just energy jitters. I take vitamins, I work out every day. When I'm having sex, I don't have that."
- Alyssa Milano
(Related: Work, Sex, Day, Energy)
"The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency."
- Gary Miller
(Related: Growth, Day, Energy, Information, Nation, Oil)
"Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market."
- Gary Miller
(Related: Countries, Energy, Land, Oil, World)
"In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades."
- Gary Miller
(Related: Policy, America, Energy, Needs, Now, Oil, Past, Today)
"Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then you have the bars after it and you have to be more sedate for that."
- Shannon Miller
(Related: Energy, May)
"I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest."
- Shannon Miller
(Related: Energy)
"Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving."
- Dan Millman
(Related: Money, God, Devil, Energy)
"There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry."
- Donald G. Mitchell
(Related: Life, Genius, Energy)
"What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic for who they are and comfortable with themselves. And I think with those two things sexual energy does come out because you're not hovering or censoring yourself, you're just being who you are. And being who you are is a very attractive quality in a person."
- Katherine Moennig
(Related: Quality, People, Being, Energy)
"Donnie Brasco was great, but the energy on the set made it kinda hard to get in there and have an opinion."
- Gretchen Mol
(Related: Energy, Opinion)
"Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out."
- Alan Moore
(Related: Men, People, Energy, Man, World)
"We had a script that was really solid and we knew how we were going to shoot and how the energy of it was going to go. So it gave us a lot of freedom to use the camera as a character."
- Marguerite Moreau
(Related: Character, Energy, Freedom)
"Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great."
- Ikue Mori
(Related: Art, Music, Chance, Energy, Jazz, Sound, Trying)
"This - the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery."
- Marc Morial
(Related: Leadership, People, Vision, Confidence, Energy, Sense, Will)
"If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day."
- Estelle Morris
(Related: Day, Energy, Film, Passion)
"Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could."
- Lord Mountbatten
(Related: Determination, Energy, Learning)
"My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do."
- Nana Mouskouri
(Related: Energy, Living, Reason, Singing)
"The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity."
- Lewis Mumford
(Related: Power, Art, Creativity, Culture, Energy, Living)
"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Energy, Oil, Sun)
"A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Power, Leader, Dream, Vision, Conviction, Energy)
"If you don't want to be there, it shows in the energy that you put out and in your actions."
- Graham Nash
(Related: Actions, Energy, Want)
"The crowd gives us so much energy and we are able to really feed off of it. Hitting those shots and having the crowd go crazy helps boost our confidence. We love our fans."
- Steve Nash
(Related: Love, Confidence, Energy, Fans)
"I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because it's difficult to do, it's really the actors medium of course, because you're really out there and nobody's yelling cut so, yeah I have."
- David Naughton
(Related: Time, Actors, Energy, Play)
"Well, I think I've made 44 films and only like four times I've played real characters I'm just drawn to people who have a pioneer spirit, this extraordinary energy and commitment to their cause."
- Liam Neeson
(Related: People, Cause, Commitment, Energy, Spirit)
"I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill."
- Ben Nelson
(Related: Energy, Poison, Wildlife)
"At a time when we are dealing with unpredictable suppliers of energy abroad and higher gas costs at home, the decision to increase domestic energy exploration is integral to a balanced, common sense energy policy."
- Randy Neugebauer
(Related: Time, Home, Policy, Decision, Common sense, Energy, Exploration)
"Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried."
- Mike Nichols
(Related: Energy, Nerves)
"In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays."
- Claude Nicollier
(Related: Universe, Will)
"The objects that are of moderate energy, like our sun or most of the stars that we see in the night sky with the naked eye, are objects in which relatively moderate energy processes are taking place."
- Claude Nicollier
(Related: Energy, Eye, Night, Sky, Stars, Sun)
"That's the most difficult issue for me... to find a subject that holds my interest long enough that I'm prepared to go to work and spend the time and energy to shoot the subject."
- Leonard Nimoy
(Related: Time, Work, Energy, Interest)
"Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other."
- Alex Noble
(Related: People, Heart, Being, Care, Energy, Games, Listening, Open)
"I am bitterly opposed to my country entering the war, but if, notwithstanding my opposition, we do enter it, all of my energy and all of my power will be behind our flag in carrying it on to victory."
- George William Norris
(Related: Power, War, Victory, Country, Energy, Opposition, Will)
"I don't consider 41 being in prime of life. Even if I conceived a child tomorrow I'd be 52 by the time it was 10. I'm not sure I'd have the energy, and I find that quite scary."
- Jeremy Northam
(Related: Time, Life, Being, Energy, Tomorrow)
"I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part."
- Jeremy Northam
(Related: Idea, Energy, First, Security)
"We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered."
- Gale Norton
(Related: Power, Quality, Country, Energy, Needs, Plants)
"We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy."
- Gale Norton
(Related: Energy)
"You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy."
- Alva Noto
(Related: Time, Energy)
"Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you."
- Ted Nugent
(Related: Energy, Guitar)
"One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am."
- Michelle Obama
(Related: Goals, Negative, Energy)
"My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity."
- Olusegun Obasanjo
(Related: Energy, Humanity, Joy, Service, Will)
"Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity."
- Olusegun Obasanjo
(Related: Power, God, People, Energy, Humanity, Will, World)
"My passion and energy get mistaken for anger."
- Gary Oldman
(Related: Anger, Energy, Passion)
"Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter."
- Barney Oliver
(Related: Energy, Present, World)
"If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be."
- Barney Oliver
(Related: Travel, Time, Energy, Motive, Obvious)
"Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient."
- Barney Oliver
(Related: Energy)
"The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light."
- Barney Oliver
(Related: Energy, Light)
"Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population."
- John Olver
(Related: Energy, Oil, Population, World)
"In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth."
- John Olver
(Related: Age, Time, Wealth, Energy, Globalization, Living, Media, Television, World)
"The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization."
- John Olver
(Related: Climate, Energy, Research, Scientists)
"We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: American, Energy, Workers)
"Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow."
- Paracelsus
(Related: Thoughts, Energy, Heaven)
"When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is just gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine."
- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
(Related: Vision, Energy, Wine, World)
"Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life."
- Boris Pasternak
(Related: Life, Work, Time, Day, Delight, Energy, First, Lies, Order)
"I think there are steps that can be taken that haven't been required or energy to make that fight more secure and we are going to continue to push the federal government to do that."
- George Pataki
(Related: Government, Energy, Fight)
"Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere."
- Alexandra Paul
(Related: Energy, Pollution)
"Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you don't want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it."
- Sean Paul
(Related: Music, Talent, Energy, Eye, Public, Want)
"The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have."
- Norman Vincent Peale
(Related: Energy, Will)
"No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary."
- Lester B. Pearson
(Related: Wealth, Defense, Energy, Leaders, Military, State)
"I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different."
- Austin Peck
(Related: Actor, Energy, Night, Theater)
"Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform."
- Nancy Pelosi
(Related: Education, Health, Technology, Beginning, Care, Classroom, Climate, Creation, Energy, First, Innovation, Job, May, President, Re)
"Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator."
- Rick Perry
(Related: Energy, Leading, Nation)
"Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past."
- Tom Peters
(Related: Change, Enthusiasm, Energy, Past)
"People wonder if I'll always be a part of this family and the answer is yes. My family has a lot of good energy going in one direction and because of it, we get a lot of things done. That's why I'll always spend a lot of time at Camp Phoenix."
- River Phoenix
(Related: Family, Time, People, Direction, Energy, Wonder)
"I am hoping the four new players can bring in some energy and fresh enthusiasm because they do not have the baggage that comes from being part of a losing side."
- Andy Pick
(Related: Enthusiasm, Being, Energy, Losing)
"I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy."
- Rosamund Pike
(Related: Chance, Energy, Marines, Prejudice, Pride, Summer)
"I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that's when you start doing things wrong."
- Dana Plato
(Related: Energy, Wrong)
"If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit."
- Dana Plato
(Related: Energy, Right)
"Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food."
- Michael Pollan
(Related: Food, Energy, Land)
"The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces."
- Jackson Pollock
(Related: Artist, Energy, Words, World)
"I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago."
- George Porter
(Related: War, Successful, Doubt, Energy, Sun, Weapons, Will)
"The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy."
- Ezra Pound
(Related: Idea, Ideas, Energy)
"The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny."
- Colin Powell
(Related: Health, Life, Action, Destiny, Energy, Fulfillment)
"What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love."
- Susan Powter
(Related: Love, Work, Energy, Individualism, Killing, Respect, Right)
"The President's announcement sounded less like a national energy plan than like a page from an election-year play book. This Administration's plan to reduce obscene oil company profits is to regulate them less."
- Nick Rahall
(Related: Company, Energy, Oil, Play, President)
"If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled."
- Ramakrishna
(Related: Faith, Arguments, Desire, Energy, Will)
"I think I believe a little bit in the power of people to really cast a bad energy on you if they want to. If the bad mojo wants to come your way, look out."
- Dileep Rao
(Related: Power, People, Energy, Want)
"They need to be re-supplied with energy, and that energy comes from asking not what your country can do for you, but from what you can do for your country."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Country, Energy)
"To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God."
- Joseph Ratzinger
(Related: God, Heart, Absence, End, Energy, Man, Responsibility)
"There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels."
- Lee R. Raymond
(Related: Energy)
"I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy."
- Lee R. Raymond
(Related: People, Country, Difficulty, Energy, World)
"I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is readily available."
- Lee R. Raymond
(Related: People, Countries, Energy, Want)
"Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security."
- B. Carroll Reece
(Related: Being, Energy, Independence, Security, Today, Youth)
"Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat."
- Lou Reed
(Related: Energy, Magic, Night)
"While some sit on the sidelines and fail to offer any practical solutions to address high gas prices now, the House is once again taking action to meet the energy needs of the American people."
- Dave Reichert
(Related: People, Action, American, Energy, Needs, Now)
"We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil."
- Rick Renzi
(Related: Policy, America, Congress, Debate, Dependence, Energy, Focus, Help, Oil)
"If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy."
- Rick Renzi
(Related: America, Energy, Help, Oil, Research, Will)
"As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico was damaged or destroyed causing gas prices to soar."
- Rick Renzi
(Related: America, Energy, states, Summer, United)
"I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six murders took place, there's going to be some bad juju in that house. But then again what the hell is wrong with you to be moving in that house to begin with?"
- Ryan Reynolds
(Related: Family, Energy, Hell, Wrong)
"I've been told that I have a lot of energy. The secret is that I use renewable resources. Some days I'm solar powered. Some days I'm wind powered. And some people in this room might think I'm hybrid gas-powered. You'll just have to guess which it is today."
- Bill Richardson
(Related: People, Energy, Today, Wind)
"Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases."
- Burton Richter
(Related: Time, Energy, Environment)
"If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity."
- Charles Francis Richter
(Related: Energy, Quantity)
"For example, some stars put out large amounts of energy in the infrared part of the spectrum, so that this can produce a different relative magnitude rating than using light energy from the middle of the spectrum."
- Charles Francis Richter
(Related: Energy, Example, Light, Stars)
"If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used."
- Charles Francis Richter
(Related: Body, Energy, Result)
"The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come."
- James Whitcomb Riley
(Related: Determination, Enthusiasm, Discouragement, Energy, Persistence)
"The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results."
- Tony Robbins
(Related: Talent, Body, Energy, Results, Will)
"No. 1, these guys out here on this field. They keep my energy level up. They try hard, they don't complain about things - and I'd just like to be with them when things are good, and hopefully we can win a pennant together."
- Frank Robinson
(Related: Energy)
"Too often in our communities many families have not even been aware that certain charities exist; and at the same time, there are many who are willing to volunteer their energy and their resources to help these charities, yet they do not know these charities even exist."
- Dana Rohrabacher
(Related: Time, Energy, Help)
"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
(Related: Energy)
"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."
- Theodore Roosevelt
(Related: Courage, Effort, Energy, Labor)
"My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy."
- Diana Ross
(Related: Family, Energy)
"I really never stopped thinking about Ellen, because I just haven't felt that kind of energy with anyone in my life."
- Portia de Rossi
(Related: Life, Energy, Thinking)
"It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different."
- Brandon Routh
(Related: Character, Performance, Ego, Energy)
"Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary."
- Ed Royce
(Related: Action, Energy, Right, Want)
"I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff."
- Mark Ruffalo
(Related: Energy)
"The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics."
- Bertrand Russell
(Related: Science, Power, Energy, Physics, Sense)
"I got a kick out of the stands when they would heckle me. I would take the energy from that."
- Kurt Russell
(Related: Energy)
"To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container."
- Jim Ryun
(Related: Knowledge, Energy, Security)
"By reducing our dependence of foreign oil and increasing alternative energy sources such as ethanol, we can begin to bring down prices at the pumps, create thousands of new jobs and bring a much needed boost to our economy."
- Jim Ryun
(Related: Dependence, Economy, Energy, Jobs, Oil)
"I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy."
- John Salazar
(Related: Food, Agriculture, Countries, Dependence, Economy, Energy, Nation)
"By increasing the use of renewable fuels such as ethanol and bio-diesel, and providing the Department of Energy with a budget to create more energy efficiency options, agriculture can be the backbone of our energy supply as well."
- John Salazar
(Related: Agriculture, Efficiency, Energy, Options)
"While it is important to maintain a balanced approach to solving our nation's energy problems, we must commit ourselves to recognize some areas as 'off limits,' and the Artic National Wildlife Reserve is a national symbol of that commitment."
- Ken Salazar
(Related: Commitment, Energy, Limits, Nation, Problems, Symbol, Wildlife)
"We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world."
- Bernie Sanders
(Related: Country, Dependence, Energy, Revolution, State, Will, World)
"From my point of view what I have to do now is appreciate and enjoy what football gave me, but now do something else with the same energy and enthusiasm I gave to football without expecting the same results."
- Graeme Le Saux
(Related: Enthusiasm, Energy, Football, Now, Results)
"It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics."
- Hjalmar Schacht
(Related: Energy, Results, Statistics)
"It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous."
- Pierre Schaeffer
(Related: Time, Power, Energy)
"Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil's tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices for the American consumer."
- Jan Schakowsky
(Related: Ideas, American, Energy, Nothing, Oil, Old, Republicans, Will)
"Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment."
- Maximilian Schell
(Related: Power, Energy, Entertainment, Europe, Theater)
"Virtue is reason which has become energy."
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
(Related: Virtue, Energy, Reason)
"The atom was unleashed in 1946, right when all this stuff was occurring. And the bomb's incredible release of energy and light may have signalled somebody in a dimension which is sharing space with us very closely."
- Dwight Schultz
(Related: Energy, Light, May, Right, Sharing, Space)
"Simply put, drilling in ANWR would be expensive, environmentally devastating, and would do very little to fix our energy crisis or to bring down the price of oil and gasoline."
- Allyson Schwartz
(Related: Crisis, Drilling, Energy, Oil)
"In Congress, I am a strong supporter of the New Apollo Energy Act. This plan would help to establish our energy independence, create jobs, and provide cleaner, reliable, and more affordable energy."
- Allyson Schwartz
(Related: Act, Congress, Energy, Independence, Help, Jobs)
"All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs."
- Allyson Schwartz
(Related: Time, Americans, End, Energy, Oil, Profit, World)
"Mos Def is one of the most creative, intelligent human beings I've had the opportunity to work with. He is fun. The entire time, he would go in and out of different characters, just for the fun of it. Awesome energy."
- Jill Scott
(Related: Work, Time, Opportunity, Energy, Fun)
"It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty."
- Walter Scott
(Related: Purpose, Strength, Boldness, Duty, Energy, Will)
"Based on the laws of physics, the effect on temperature of man's contribution to atmospheric CO2 levels is minuscule and indiscernible from the natural variability caused in large part by changes in solar energy output."
- Robert L. Scotto
(Related: Effect, Energy, Laws, Man, Physics)
"I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy."
- William Scranton
(Related: Policy, Energy, First, Press)
"In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it."
- Michael Servetus
(Related: Life, People, Courage, Earth, Energy, Giving, Spirit)
"I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it."
- Amanda Seyfried
(Related: Art, Ballet, Energy, School, Singing)
"For example, in my own State of Arizona, an Israeli scientist is working with an Arizona company on a demonstration project involving a very fast-growing algae which can be used to power a biomass energy plan."
- John Shadegg
(Related: Power, Company, Energy, Example, Project, State)
"If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible."
- John Shadegg
(Related: Dependence, Energy, Oil, states, United)
"You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign."
- Donna Shalala
(Related: Energy, Want)
"The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: Power, Actor, Energy)
"The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Truth, Energy, Honor)
"I've got mad energy for days. That's what people can't get their minds around. They say, 'Oh, he's going to crash.' They try to apply all these common terms to a guy who is not common. I don't fit into their little box."
- Charlie Sheen
(Related: People, Energy)
"I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me."
- Duncan Sheik
(Related: Music, People, Creativity, Being, Energy, Help, Musicians)
"The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized."
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Related: Society, Character, Energy, Man)
"Penn State in 1955 became the first university to be issued a federal license to operate a nuclear reactor, which it continues to use for studies in the peaceful uses of atomic energy and the training of nuclear industry personnel."
- Don Sherwood
(Related: Energy, First, State, Training, University)
"Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?"
- Solomon Short
(Related: Nature, Survival, Conservation, Energy, Law)
"The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared."
- Frank Shorter
(Related: Management, Debt, Energy, Marathon, Race)
"Again, racing for me was about energy management."
- Frank Shorter
(Related: Management, Energy, Racing)
"Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill."
- Ron Silver
(Related: Energy, Skill)
"Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful."
- Charles Simmons
(Related: Habit, Attention, Duty, Energy, Fortune, Influence, Manners, Reputation, Usefulness, Will)
"Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves - our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love."
- William E. Simon
(Related: Love, Time, Wealth, Commitment, Energy, Passion, Sharing)
"While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance."
- Michael K. Simpson
(Related: Energy, Nation, Nothing)
"In the fall of the year 2000, there just happened to be a decision point when they asked me to become Chief Executive Officer of the company. It was a time when, as you remember, we were starting to have some real problems in the California energy markets."
- Jeffrey Skilling
(Related: Time, Decision, Company, Energy, Problems)
"We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past."
- Louise Slaughter
(Related: Country, Energy, Extreme, Past)
"Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life."
- John French Sloan
(Related: Life, Time, Energy, Painting, Vitality)
"It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action."
- Samuel Smiles
(Related: Power, Action, Character, Enthusiasm, Energy, Force, Will)
"Although a food processor is not an absolutely essential piece of equipment, because you can certainly chop, grate, slice, knead and mix everything by hand, it does do all these things very quickly and efficiently and saves you time and energy."
- Delia Smith
(Related: Food, Time, Energy)
"Conservation of energy also protects our environment."
- Lamar S. Smith
(Related: Conservation, Energy, Environment)
"Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal."
- Lamar S. Smith
(Related: Electricity, Energy, Oil)
"The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources."
- Lamar S. Smith
(Related: Energy, Nation)
"Well, there's no doubt about the fact that, that higher energy prices lead to greater conservation, greater energy efficiency, and they also, of course, play a useful role on the supply side."
- John W. Snow
(Related: Conservation, Doubt, Efficiency, Energy, Fact, Play)
"Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to the Congress; I'm encouraged that there's some prospect for that now."
- John W. Snow
(Related: Congress, Energy, Legislation, Now)
"We can get more energy out of the north slope of Alaska; we have available the ability to make ourselves less dependent on those uncertain sources of supply from the Middle East. And it's important we do that."
- John W. Snow
(Related: Ability, Energy)
"And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid."
- John W. Snow
(Related: Country, Energy)
"Aggression, the writer's main source of energy."
- Ted Solotaroff
(Related: Aggression, Energy, Writer)
"We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world."
- Christina Hoff Sommers
(Related: Boys, Energy, Right, World)
"Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere."
- Abdolkarim Soroush
(Related: Energy)
"And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say."
- Latrell Sprewell
(Related: Time, Energy, Fire, First, Pretty)
"I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive."
- Terence Stamp
(Related: Energy)
"We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength."
- Charles Stanley
(Related: Power, Time, God, Strength, Energy)
"U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy."
- Cliff Stearns
(Related: Energy, Prosperity)
"As the economy grows, so will the demand for energy."
- Cliff Stearns
(Related: Economy, Energy, Will)
"As expanding economies continue to grow, the one source of energy that we can develop rapidly, cheaply and with next-to-no emissions is nuclear energy."
- Craig Stevens
(Related: Energy)
"I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener."
- Ben Stiller
(Related: Work, Energy, Want, Wind)
"People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives."
- J. Michael Straczynski
(Related: Time, People, Being, Blame, Energy, Excuses, Past)
"So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends."
- David Strathairn
(Related: Money, Positive, Energy, Film)
"I've had to do that all my life because my energy is way, way overwhelming."
- Picabo Street
(Related: Life, Energy)
"There are times everyone needs to be together for me and we all just work together; making sure that my energy is good and right when I go do what I'm going to do. That means the family needs to spend time together."
- Picabo Street
(Related: Family, Time, Work, Energy, Needs, Right)
"Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself."
- Picabo Street
(Related: Work, Energy)
"Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy."
- August Strindberg
(Related: Nature, Progress, Energy, Evolution)
"I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite."
- Hal Sutton
(Related: Thought, Being, Energy, Today)
"I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got."
- Hal Sutton
(Related: Energy, Golf)
"I have lots of energy."
- Julia Sweeney
(Related: Energy)
"I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up."
- Wanda Sykes
(Related: Work, Energy, Project)
"My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily."
- Channing Tatum
(Related: Sports, Energy, Parents, School)
"I've always had way too much energy so I'm always looking for new things to do to channel that energy."
- Channing Tatum
(Related: Energy)
"Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely."
- James Taylor
(Related: Benefits, Energy)
"It was great fun. We had gone on tour in between the sessions and reconnected with the audience and got a lot of energy back from them, a lot of positive energy."
- Roger Andrew Taylor
(Related: Positive, Energy, Fun)
"Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking."
- Susan Taylor
(Related: Power, Thoughts, Energy, Thinking, World)
"I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter."
- Twyla Tharp
(Related: Time, Energy, Laughter, Relax, Tension)
"I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry."
- Leon Theremin
(Related: Music, Effect, Energy, Sound)
"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."
- Dorothy Thompson
(Related: Age, Nature, People, Energy, Old, Years)
"Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy."
- Mac Thornberry
(Related: Time, Country, Energy, Learning)
"We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas."
- Mac Thornberry
(Related: Environmental, Balance, Common sense, Energy, Production)
"Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress."
- Mac Thornberry
(Related: Life, Quality, Progress, Growth, Energy)
"In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles."
- Mac Thornberry
(Related: Energy)
"We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources."
- Mac Thornberry
(Related: Energy, Research)
"To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind."
- Edward Thorndike
(Related: Nature, Body, Energy, Human nature, Interest, Mind, Study, World)
"Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota's ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs."
- John Thune
(Related: War, Dependence, Energy, Jobs, Oil, Security, Terror, Will)
"Put good energy out. Get good energy back."
- Lawrence Tierney
(Related: Energy)
"And because of the reunion I think we've got more energy and enthusiasm than we've ever had. And it's genuine. I think the fans can detect when you're genuine, when you love what you do, and we love to be there on stage. That's what we thrive on."
- Glenn Tipton
(Related: Love, Enthusiasm, Energy, Fans)
"Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards."
- Peter Tork
(Related: Music, Energy)
"Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance."
- Brian Tracy
(Related: Car, Feelings, Goals, Thoughts, Values, Balance, Emotions, Energy)
"Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful."
- David Del Tredici
(Related: Time, American, Composers, Energy, World)
"We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about."
- Rachel True
(Related: Beach, Energy, Wonder)
"With out passion you dont have energy, with out energy you have nothing."
- Donald Trump
(Related: Energy, Nothing, Passion)
"Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy."
- Chogyam Trungpa
(Related: People, Compassion, Energy)
"When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back."
- Karl Urban
(Related: Work, Energy)
"There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors."
- Karl Urban
(Related: Actors, Aesthetics, Energy, Giving)
"I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting "Heaven" it was truly guerrilla film-making."
- Karl Urban
(Related: Energy, Fight, Film, Pretty)
"In short, the time has come for us as American and Iranian citizens to apply our mutual energy, intellect, and goodwill toward strengthening relations between our two countries, as their destinies are intertwined."
- Cyrus Vance
(Related: Time, American, Countries, Energy, Goodwill, Intellect)
"What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy."
- Voltaire
(Related: Age, Virtue, Energy, Loss)
"Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Success, Winning, Effort, Energy, Persistence)
"Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Success, Time, Successful, Energy, Existence)
"When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Goal, Energy, Will)
"Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Goals, Energy, Focus)
"Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Desire, Energy, Will)
"Whether fuel cell system development in central Oregon, wind power generation along the Columbia Gorge, or geothermal energy in southern Oregon, investing in new energy sources makes America more energy independent while creating good paying, environmentally friendly jobs."
- Greg Walden
(Related: Power, Development, America, Energy, Jobs, Wind)
"As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices."
- Greg Walden
(Related: Energy, Responsibility)
"I came here to help make America more competitive and prosperous by developing an energy policy that increases conservation, promotes cleaner technologies, encourages development of renewables and enhances domestic production of gas and oil."
- Greg Walden
(Related: Policy, Development, America, Conservation, Energy, Help, Oil, Production)
"With the increasing demand for oil around the world and the rising costs in Oregon and throughout the nation, we must focus on the development of alternate energy sources, especially those that are clean, efficient and renewable."
- Greg Walden
(Related: Development, Energy, Focus, Nation, Oil, World)
"And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue."
- Zach Wamp
(Related: Conservative, Country, Dependence, Energy, Forget, Security)
"We must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism."
- Zack Wamp
(Related: War, Policy, Energy, Terrorism)
"With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy."
- Zack Wamp
(Related: Change, Energy, Fact, Oil, states, United, Will, World)
"If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate."
- Dennis Weaver
(Related: War, Earth, Economy, Energy, Nation, Support)
"Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital."
- Daniel Webster
(Related: Failure, Energy, Want)
"I'd love to have another film to go on to. I'm in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally I'll write one myself if I can summon up the energy."
- Peter Weir
(Related: Love, Work, Energy, Film, Project)
"That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!"
- Randy West
(Related: Energy, Joy)
"I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy."
- Vivienne Westwood
(Related: Being, Energy, Rebellion, Trying, Youth)
"Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context."
- Margaret J. Wheatley
(Related: Courage, Determination, Care, Energy)
"As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me."
- Forest Whitaker
(Related: Character, Actor, Connection, Energy, Help, Spirit, Want, Years)
"When I come off the bench, I'm looking to add energy, and then I play defense and rebound. Also, at the end of the game, I have the experience to go out there and help us win."
- Sue Wicks
(Related: Experience, Defense, End, Energy, Help, Play)
"When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself."
- Olivia Wilde
(Related: Acting, Actor, Energy, Focus, Will)
"Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value."
- Thornton Wilder
(Related: Love, Energy, Value)
"Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ."
- David Wilkerson
(Related: Life, Time, Christ, Energy, Evil, Sin)
"We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people."
- Roger Wilkins
(Related: People, Creativity, Hope, Diversity, Energy, Problems)
"In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music."
- Roy H. Williams
(Related: Music, Time, God, Creation, Energy, Gravity, Light, Space, Theory)
"String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect."
- Roy H. Williams
(Related: Nature, Being, Effect, Energy, Theory)
"Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing."
- Ann Wilson
(Related: Music, Energy, First, Word)
"First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago."
- Carl Wilson
(Related: Music, Action, Energy, First, Internet, Writing)
"A comprehensive national energy policy is critical to our nation's economy and our national security. Energy expenditures account for about 7% percent of our total economy and influence pricing in the much of the rest of the economy."
- Heather Wilson
(Related: Policy, Economy, Energy, Influence, Nation, National security, Rest)
"We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love."
- Heather Wilson
(Related: Beauty, Love, Policy, Dependence, Energy, Land, Oil)
"Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders."
- Sloan Wilson
(Related: Success, Intelligence, Energy, Leaders)
"Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion."
- Tony Wilson
(Related: Age, Religion, Energy, Nothing)
"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."
- Oprah Winfrey
(Related: Power, Energy, Passion)
"To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it."
- Kip Winger
(Related: Time, Work, People, Energy, Hell)
"Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out."
- Reese Witherspoon
(Related: Work, Life, People, Careers, Energy, Job, Rest, Want, Will, Worry)
"I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy."
- Reese Witherspoon
(Related: Energy, Perfection)
"Sex is energy."
- Beatrice Wood
(Related: Sex, Energy)
"If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy."
- Robert Wyatt
(Related: Experience, Hope, Energy, Right)
"Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before."
- William Butler Yeats
(Related: Soul, Energy, Right, Spirit, Temptation)
"The starting point for energy security today as it has always been is diversification of supplies and sources."
- Daniel Yergin
(Related: Energy, Security, Today)
"We are living in a new age of energy supply anxiety."
- Daniel Yergin
(Related: Age, Anxiety, Energy, Living)
"But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets. And it's important to acknowledge the fact that the entire energy supply chain needs to be protected."
- Daniel Yergin
(Related: Energy, Fact, Needs, Security)
"Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies."
- Daniel Yergin
(Related: Energy)
"First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas."
- Daniel Yergin
(Related: People, Americans, Dependence, Energy, First, Meaning, Now, Question, Right, Security, Vocabulary)
"Men find it difficult because I've got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around."
- Susannah York
(Related: Men, Energy, Night, Sleep)
"I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more."
- James Young
(Related: Energy)
"I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever."
- Mao Zedong
(Related: Energy)
"Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought."
- Clara Zetkin
(Related: Energy, Reform, Struggle, Workers)
"I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus."
- Daphne Zuniga
(Related: Dating, Energy, Focus, Months)
"Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come."
- Stefan Zweig
(Related: History, Energy, Mind)
"Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour."
- Fritz Zwicky
(Related: Home, Energy, Evening, Tax)