Energetic Quotes - Page 4

• Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.

  Aaron McGruder

  Smart, Fluid, Very Smart

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• Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Real, Ambition, Men

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• Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of dignity and strength, with primitive, energetic passages, evoking absolute beauty from the simplest of phrases. It brings up something that has everything to do with significance - squeezing joy and motif that you just can't drop - it stays with you.

  Robert Genn

  Music, Joy, Phrases

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• The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the exterior without booking voyages into the interior. Think about it: How can you understand 'it' if you haven't made any effort to understand 'you'? Because what you're really doing is establishing a living, electrical, vital, energetic connection between it and you. You're creating both of them, simultaneously. A lot like quantum physics.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Self, Creating

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• I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better.

  Xi Jinping

  Sports, Jobs, Exercise

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• Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.

  Joseph Stilwell

  Publicity, Flattery, Power Of Love

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• Maybe we need to re-engage our smart, energetic youth around the world to be farmers and find fresh, green technologies that will feed the world more fresh greens.

  Ellen Gustafson

  Smart, Technology, Needs

  "Solving the world's hunger and obesity crises together" by Ellen Gustafson, www.cnn.com. August 10, 2010.

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• One must recently have lived on or close to a college campus to have a vivid intimation of what has happened. It is there that we see how a number of energetic social innovators, plugging their grand designs, succeeded over the years in capturing the liberal intellectual imagination. And since ideas rule the world, the ideologues, having won over the intellectual class, simply walked in and started to run things. Run just about everything. There never was an age of conformity quite like this one, or a camaraderie quite like the Liberals'.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Running, College, Years

  "Publisher's Statement" in the first issue of National Review, November 19, 1955.

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• No doubt exists that rent seeking in general leads to serious inefficiencies in this direct sense, but its indirect damage is even worse. Drawing the bulk of intelligent and energetic people in society into activity that has no social product, or may have a negative social product, is more important in explaining the stagnation of these societies than the direct social cost of the rent seeking.

  Gordon Tullock

  Intelligent, Drawing, People

  Gordon Tullock, Gordon L. Brady, Arthur Seldon (2002). “Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice”, p.49, Cato Institute

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• Man is a luxury-loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.

  Eric Hoffer

  Animal, Men, Play

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 28, 1973.

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• Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than to take all the youngest, most energetic, creative, joyous people in your society and saddle them with, like $50,000 of debt so they have to be slaves? There goes your music. There goes your culture. There goes everything new that would pop out. And in a way, this is what’s happened to our society. We’re a society that has lost any ability to incorporate the interesting, creative and eccentric people.

  David Graeber

  Suicide, People, Imagination

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• For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as cauliflower. This is a mistake-there is no other word. Where else can the restless human mind find means to tie the infinite in a finite bow?

  David Berlinski

  Mistake, Mean, Men

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.

  C. L. R. James

  Country, Kings, Long

  C L R James (2001). “The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution”, p.180, Penguin UK

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• My only supporter and comrade-in-arms was Georg Helm, who had endeavored to formulate an energetic conception of science before me and had presented his results in a treatise [Die Lehre von der Energie] exhibiting great independence of thought. But we were separated by his aversion to a realistic conception of energy. Consequently, each of us considered the other only a half ally, toward whom an attitude of caution was necessary.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Attitude, Independence, Allies

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• There were some days that deserved to be drowned at birth and everyone sent back to bed with a hot brandy, a box of chocolates and a warm, energetic companion. Today was without question one of those days.

  Diana Pharaoh Francis

  Chocolate, Bed, Hot

  Diana Pharaoh Francis (2014). “Trace of Magic”, p.265, Bell Bridge Books

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• Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.

  Akio Morita

  Intelligent, People, Creative

  "The future of labor-management cooperative programs" by John Raymond Phillips, (p. 160), 1986.

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• You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.

  Andy Grove

  Team, Fire, Events

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• The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.

  Charles Darwin

  Vegetarianism, World, Vegan

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• We believe in taking down the barriers, but we also believe in the most energetic reconciliation among peoples by getting them to know each other, talk each other's languages, understand each other's fears and beliefs, getting to know each other physically, philosophically and spiritually. It is much harder to kill your near neighbor than the thousands of unknown and hostile aliens at the other end of a nuclear missile. We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles...

  Betty Williams

  Believe, Understanding, Nuclear Missiles

  Betty Williams' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1977.

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• In Tharoor's hands [the story of modern India] is transformed into Mahabharata magic.... Endlessly inventive, irreverent, wise, ingenious,... it takes on at one level or another the entire panorama of modern India....Energetic and eventful.

  M. G. Vassanji

  Wise, Hands, Modern India

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• I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards.

  Albert Camus

  Laughter, Attitude, Laughing

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.41, Vintage

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• Social organizations are flagrantly open systems in that the input of energies and the conversion of output into further energetic input consists of transactions between the organization and its environment.

  Daniel Katz

  Organization, Energy, Input

  Daniel Katz, Robert L. Kahn (1978). “The Social Psychology of Organizations”, Wiley

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• I think, honestly, that a lot of people think I'm sad and dark all the time, because of the music I have made. But there's a huge part of my personality that's really energetic, outgoing and goofy.

  Skylar Grey

  Dark, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these intellectuals I was now getting to know. They were overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they lacked magnanimity and often they lacked common courtesy. But they were intellectually energetic and - this particularly attracted me - they were proof against cant.

  Diana Trilling

  Careers, Arrogant, May

  Diana Trilling (1993). “The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling”, Harcourt

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• I used to go to these old tent revivals and listen to the gospel singers. If you think rock and roll is energetic, it pales in comparison to a Pentecostal tent revival.

  Edgar Winter

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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