Energy Quotes

Postponing doing the really interesting things in life for later, when you don't have the energy.

As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.

The price to generate a megawatt or a gigawatt of energy is coming down year after year. We're learning how to print it, make it more efficient.

The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose to put energy into something can be remarkable. Be prepared for extra energy.

When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful.

The IEA forecasts that production from oilfields, which have started production up to 2011, will nearly drop two-thirds by 2035.

In the end, it will just melt away quite suddenly. It might not be as early as 2013 but it will be soon, much earlier than 2040.

There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.

But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.

Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.

Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to predict what will happen and when.

I'd like to see a little more action on the energy side of things. I've been pushing for some kind of a carbon tax for years, and it seems to me we've had lots of opportunities to do it.

If there be an infinite Being, he does not need our help - we need not waste our energies in his defense.

Look, any cut in greenhouse gases is going to be expensive for American consumers, who are in no mood to bear additional costs.

My preference is live performance, because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that.

I'm always studying something or trying to learn something, keep myself creatively occupied, because I think that energy can get kind of destructive if it doesn't have somewhere to go.

Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.

What is important is using one's talent, intellect and energy in order to gain an appreciation and affection for people and place.

Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could be sufficient to supply the current energy needs of the globe.

You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains?

When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it.

We humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth.

India has the most technically ambitious and innovative nuclear energy program in the world.

If one is married for a long time, and one does have a family . . . It is like an energy, a wonderful fire that never goes out underneath you, to help you go out into the world and do your damnedest.

Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.

How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will, from self-control.

I would love to maybe shoot a movie or something, but end goals: I just want to play a superhero. I think that would be so much fun. I'm putting that energy into the universe for sure.

[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm.

It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt.

The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred around the end of the 1980s.

Most of my life is just spent lying in bed. I mean, it's enough pressure to write the words. Do I need to use the additional energy exerted by sitting up?

You can't fake anything. If you're honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.

Immigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy.

The US is responsible for 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. It should take responsibility for leading the way.

I'm a terrible cook, but if I could cook, I would see that in art as well, it's how much creative energy you put into something.

The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.

Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it's rancher power, it's Appalachian power.

People in red states and blue states can agree that clean air is better than dirty air; therefore we should use clean energy where we can.

I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy.

This issue is not economic but political. I hope that all market participants interested in maintaining stable and reasonable world energy prices will finally make the right decision.

There is no use for energy of any kind whatsoever unless there is a plan back of it.

The discovery of orgone energy was made through consistent, thorough study of energy functions, first in the realm of the psyche, and later in the realm of biological functioning.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

...a magical CO2 knob for controlling weather and climate simply does not exist!

In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy.

Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility

What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.