Energy Quotes - Page 8

• 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

  Love, Dance, Song

  "Margaret Mead: A Life". Book by Jane Howard, 1984.

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• 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

  Important, Looks, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Years

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• 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 Westbrook

  Motivational, Inspiring, Goal

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• Energy is an eternal delight.

  William Blake

  Delight, Eternal

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• Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

  William James

  Running, Dream, Inspirational Sports

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• The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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• 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

  Wisdom, Time, Past

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• Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

  William Feather

  Money, Ideas, Flow

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• The world belongs to those with the most energy.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  World

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• Thought isn't a form of energy. So how on Earth can it change material processes? That question has still not been answered.

  Vladimir Vernadsky

  Change, Science, Earth

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• We are quite ignorant of the condition of energy in bodies generally. We know how much gas goes in, and how much comes out, and know whether at entrance and exit it is in the form of heat or of work. That is all.

  Peter Tait

  Ignorant, Body, Exit

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• When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot.

  Shlomo Riskin

  Two, Crowds, Steps

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• It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived from coal and petroleum (fossil sunlight) which propels our steam and gas engines, our locomotives and automobiles. ... Food is simply sunlight in cold storage.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Food, Science, Water

  John Harvey Kellogg “The New Dietetics, What to Eat and How”, Рипол Классик

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• Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.

  Steven Chu

  Europe, Gasoline, Levels

  "Times Tough for Energy Overhaul" by Neil King Jr. and Stephen Power, www.wsj.com. December 12, 2008.

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• I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Science, Light, Should Have

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• Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present sources stand in the ratio of a million to one, compared with any previous sources. The release of atomic energy will change the whole structure of society.

  Frederick Soddy

  Islands, Coal, Atomic Energy

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• We ought to be using nuclear power. It's a renewable source of energy.

  George W. Bush

  Nuclear, Source, Ought

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• I can now state that I have succeeded in operating a motive device by means of [cosmic rays]. I will tell you in the most general way, the cosmic ray ionizes the air, setting free many charges - ions and electrons. These charges are captured in a condenser which is made to discharge through the circuit of the motor.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mean, Air, Ions

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• From the aspect of energy, renewed by radio-active phenomena, material corpuscles may now be treated as transient reservoirs of concentrated power. Though never found in a state of purity, but always more or less granulated (even in light) energy nowadays represents for science the most primitive form of universal stuff.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Light, May

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• Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition of the native resource. The Geological Survey had identified the inflammable oil shale in reports since at least 1888.]

  Winston Churchill

  Oil, Political, Band

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• In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which the energy exists after it leaves one body and before it reaches the other ... and if we admit this medium as an hypothesis, I think it ought to occupy a prominent place in our investigations, and that we ought to endeavour to construct a mental representation of all the details of its action, and this has been my constant aim in this treatise.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Thinking, Details

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• The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of contraction, however measured, is a function of the length of the muscle fibre.

  Ernest Starling

  Heart, Science, Law

  Ernest Henry Starling (1965). “Starling on the Heart: Facsimile Reprints, Including the Linacre Lecture on the Law of the Heart”

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• The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Light, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations...”

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• All peoples everywhere should have free energy sources.

  Nikola Tesla

  Should Have, Source, Should

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