energy quotes

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he’s got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources… India’s requirements and Canada’s surplus are a perfect match.

Even if the economy crashes, we will still burn oil.

The nuclear approach I’m involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There’s a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true – many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.

The main thing that’s missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.

You can’t generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Today, we’re very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted – all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

I’m an energy vampire. I just suck off everybody’s energy. But I give it back.

The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

I don’t know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way – all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup – all the time. When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

We get the exciting result that the total energy of the universe is zero. Why this should be so is one of the great mysteries – and therefore one of the important questions of physics. After all, what would be the use of studying physics if the mysteries were not the most important things to investigate?

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that’s safer, doesn’t require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

I think California has the best energy.

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

Before I started school striking I had no energy, no friends and I didn’t speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder. All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people.

Energy begets energy.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

It’s obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Writing is a solitary experience. I’m extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It’s so intimate, I can’t even share it with my wife.

People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.