Quotes about Energy

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

Without a goal we are much like the man with a boat and nowhere to go. Goals give us the drive and energy we need to remain on track long enough for their accomplishment.

No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.

If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.

But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living.

Second Law states, among other things, that the universe is running out of usable energy.

In the same way, the universe would be out of energy by now if it had been running from all eternity.

With every moment of your time, every decision about how you spend your energy and your money, you are making a statement about what really matters to you.

You can talk all you want about having a strategy for your life, understanding motivation, and balancing aspirations with unanticipated opportunities. But ultimately, this means nothing if you do not align those with where you actually expend your time, money, and energy. In other words, how you allocate resources is where the rubber meets the road.

In a small, independent organization, these small wins will generate energy and enthusiasm. In the mainstream, they would generate skepticism about whether we should even be in the business. I want my organization's customers to answer the question of whether we should be in the business. I don't want to spend my precious managerial energy constantly defending our existence to efficiency analysts in the mainstream.

I dance. I ripple. I am thrown over you like a net of light. I lie quivering flung over you.

Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing fireworks inside him.