Potential Energy Quotes

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  The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  As quoted in"Be Free!: Keys to Success and Happiness in Every Aspect of Your Life" by Slavica Bogdanov, (p. 45), October 12, 2012.

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• The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

  Carl Jung

  Opposites, Innovation, Energy

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• Our schools are filled with this potential energy, and we need to create an environment for that energy to manifest itself.

  Phil Keoghan

  School, Energy, Needs

  FaceBook post by Phil Keoghan from May 06, 2013

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• 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

  Light, Hydrogen Fuel, Energy

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• Every bad feeling is potential energy toward a more right way of being if you give it space to move toward its rightness

  Eugene Gendlin

  Moving, Space, Giving

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• Although mechanical energy is indestructible, there is a universal tendency to its dissipation, which produces throughout the system a gradual augmentation and diffusion of heat, cessation of motion and exhaustion of the potential energy of the material Universe

  Lord Kelvin

  Energy, Heat, Tendencies

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• You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X 10^18 joules of potential energy—enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs, assuming you knew how to liberate it and really wished to make a point.

  Bill Bryson

  Average, Hydrogen Bomb, Energy

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• The law of the Conservation of Energy is already known — viz., that the sum of all the energies of the universe, actual and potential, is unchangeable.

  William John Macquorn Rankine

  Knowledge, Science, Law

  "Miscellaneous Scientific Papers".

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• Hopefully the process is to spot things that would be grist for the funny mill. In some respects, the heavier subjects are the ones that are most loaded with opportunity because they have the most - you know, the difference between potential and kinetic energy? - they have the most potential energy, so to delve into that gives you the largest combustion, the most interest. I don't mean for the audience. I mean for us. Everyone here is working too hard to do stuff we don't care about.

  Jon Stewart

  Mean, Opportunity, Differences

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Shale gas represents a promising new potential energy resource for the UK. It could contribute significantly to our energy security, reducing our reliance on imported gas, as we move to a low-carbon economy.

  Edward Davey

  Moving, Energy, Economy

  "George Osborne questioned by MPs about autumn statement: Politics live blog" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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• If you are involved totally, sex disappears because sex is a safety valve. When you have energy unused, then sex becomes a haunting thing around you. When total energy is used, sex disappears. And that is the state of brahmacharya, of virya, of all your potential energy flowering.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Safety, Energy

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• Credentials are like potential energy, the compliments of a name on paper, in documents, word of mouth, but faith is like kinetic energy, the motion and the force that which is witnessed. Hence in the end it is the faith rather than the credentials that really takes you places.

  Criss Jami

  Names, Energy, Paper

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.65, Criss Jami

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