Energy Quotes - Page 21

• I'm a big believer in minimalism. Not materialist minimalism although that's part of it but time and energy minimalism. The body is given only so much energy a day.

  James Altucher

  Body, Bigs, Given

  "The Only 3 Rules You Really Need To Know" by James Altucher, www.businessinsider.com. June 4, 2014.

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• When Buddhists say, "A bodhisattva fears not the result, but only the cause," they mean that we must expend the bulk of our energy planting good roots today, rather than fretting about the plants that are already growing from the roots we planted in the past.

  Hsing Yun

  Buddhist, Mean, Past

  Hsing Yun (2016). “Describing the Indescribable: A Commentary on the Diamond Sutra”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Stop giving your precious energy to things that make you feel bad.

  Louise Hay

  Giving, Feels

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• During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark.

  Bill Gates

  Dark, Past, Years

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• You are far more than your personality, more than your habits, more than your achievements. You are an infinitely complex human being with stories and myths and dreams- and ambitions of cosmic proportions. Don't waste time underestimating yourself. Dream big... Use the energy of your archetype to express the true reason you were born. Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end.

  Caroline Myss

  Dream, Ambition, Personality

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• Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday.

  Peter Drucker

  Yesterday, Evaluation, Strategy

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• A commander should have a profound understanding of human nature, the knack of smoothing out troubles, the power of winning affection while communicating energy, and the capacity for ruthless determination where require by circumstances. He needs to generate an electrifying current, and to keep a cool head in applying it.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Determination, Winning, Should Have

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• At a time when our planet is warming due to climate change, the last thing our environment needs is more drilling. What we need is for Congress and the White House to move toward clean energy such as solar, wind and geothermal.

  Bernie Sanders

  Moving, Wind, White

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• I believe, along with Pope Francis and almost all scientists, that climate change is threatening this planet in horrendous ways, and that we have to be aggressive in transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel and defeat the Keystone Pipeline.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Climate, Keystone Pipeline

  "Sen Bernie Sanders on gun control: 'I do not accept the fact that I have been weak on this issue. In fact, I have been strong on this issue'". "State of the Union" with Jake Tapper, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. August 30, 2015.

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• "Wholeheartedly" means that we give our time, love, and energy unstintingly.

  Ayya Khema

  Mean, Giving, Time Love

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• People who relax by watching TV instead of going out to engage with the world tend to be far less energetic. the benefits of exercise in protecting against depression and mental ill-health are huge. Those around you can also affect your energy levels. Self-talk also works wonders on energy levels.

  Liz Miller

  Exercise, Self, Ill Health

  Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

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• Creative energy is more critical than learning.

  Albert Einstein

  Creative, Critical, Creative Energy

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• And while dollars have little to do with it, the fiction writer should be asking the same question any capable film producer would ask: Is this scene truly necessary? It is the kind of thinking that, put into practice, results in a story with a sense of energy and direction.

  Les Standiford

  Thinking, Practice, Dollars

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• Those who manage change in modern organizations need to learn to dance, to become healers capable of releasing collective energy to heal the wounds of change.

  Terrence E. Deal

  Organization, Needs, Modern

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• Fear is about survival. When you drop under that and experience the fear without trying to change it, just letting it be, then it becomes still. When you open your heart to fear, rather than trying to fight it or deny it or even overcome it, then you find it is just energy.

  Gangaji

  Heart, Fighting, Survival

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• I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live; there's a different energy about living in the city.

  Odette Annable

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Art, Philosophy

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.1, New World Library

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• If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... How would I be? What would I do? We may now care for each Earthian individual at a sustainable billionaire's level of affluence while living exclusively on less than 1 percent of our planet's daily energy income from our cosmically designed nuclear reactor, the Sun, optimally located 92 million safe miles away from us.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Care, May, Safe

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• Who would seriously want to listen to anything emanating from a quasi-chimpanzee's irrational bundle of mental accidents and energies?

  David A. Noebel

  Want, Bundles, Chimpanzees

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• Information is information; it is neither matter nor energy.

  Norbert Wiener

  Information, Matter

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• The organic gardener does not think of throwing away the garbage. She knows that she needs the garbage. She is capable of transforming the garbage into compost, so that the compost can turn into lettuce, cucumber, radishes, and flowers again...With the energy of mindfulness, you can look into the garbage and say: I am not afraid. I am capable of transforming the garbage back into love.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Thinking, Looks

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• One of the problems with trying to help underdogs, especially with government programs, is that they and everyone else start to think of them as underdogs, focusing on their problems rather than their opportunities. Thinking of themselves as underdogs can also dissipate their energies in resentments of others, rather than spending that energy making the most of their own possibilities.

  Thomas Sowell

  Opportunity, Thinking, Government

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.276, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The more complex our economy, the more we should rely on the miraculous, self-adapting processes of men acting freely. No mind of man nor any combination of minds can even envision, let alone intelligently control, the countless human energy exchanges in a simple society, to say nothing of a complex one.

  Leonard Read

  Simple, Men, Self

  "Excuse Me, Professor: Challenging the Myths of Progressivism". Book by Leonard Read, July 28, 2015.

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• [But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.

  Edward Gibbon

  Children, Men, Firsts

  Edward Gibbon (1855). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.155

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• The only way to permanently install a new habit is to direct so much energy toward it that the old one slips away like an unwelcome house guest.

  Robin Sharma

  House, Guests, Way

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 02, 2013

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