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Quotes About Energy

Attempting to suppress emotions is dysfunctional; it does not work. Emotions are energy: E-motion = energy in motion. It is supposed to be in motion, it was meant to flow.
~ Robert Burney
If you are tired or distracted, do not code.
~ Robert C. Martin
performance-appraisal sheet would have looked like this: Adaptability 0 Adventuresomeness 100 Cruelty 100 Energy 100 Flexibility 0 Intelligence 100 Justice 100 Gets along well with others 0
~ Robert C. Townsend
Consciousness, like matter, like energy, is preserved.
~ Robert Charles Wilson
Daily Law: No calling is superior to another. What matters is that it be tied to a personal need and inclination, and that your energy moves you toward improvement and continuous learning from experience. The Laws of Human Nature, 13: Advance with a Sense of Purpose—The Law of Aimlessness
~ Robert Greene
Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feeling motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive. In
~ Robert Greene
This energy was so powerful that it made him swing from one mood or idea to the opposite—from spirituality to sensuality, from naïveté to craftiness. This daemon, he decided, was a spirit implanted in him at birth and it encompassed his whole being. How he managed this daemon would determine the length of his life and the success of his endeavors.
~ Robert Greene
Daily Law: If you're on the false path, get off. Find energy in rebellion. Mastery, I: Discover Your Calling—The Life's Task
~ Robert Greene
Feeling motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive.
~ Robert Greene
Understand this: In the game of power, the people you associate with are critical. The risk of associating with infectors is that you will waste valuable time and energy trying to free yourself. Through a kind of guilt by association, you will also suffer in the eyes of others. Never underestimate the dangers of infection.
~ Robert Greene
When we are tired, it is often because we are bored. When no real challenge faces us, a mental and physical lethargy sets in. "Sometimes death only comes from a lack of energy," Napoleon once said, and lack of energy comes from a lack of challenges, comes when we have taken on less than we are capable of. Take a risk and your body and mind will respond with a rush of energy. Make risk a constant practice; never let yourself settle down.
~ Robert Greene
Remember: You have only so much energy and so much time. Every moment wasted on the affairs of others subtracts from your strength.
~ Robert Greene
existe una fuerza interior que hace que todos los seres vivos crezcan y se transformen?
~ Robert Greene
Nosso nível de desejo, paciência, persistência e confiança acaba contribuindo muito mais para o sucesso que a capacidade de raciocínio. A motivação e a energia podem superar quase tudo. A monotonia e a inconstância desconectam a mente e nos tornam cada vez mais passivos.
~ Robert Greene
You must alter your very concept of creativity and try to see it from a new angle. Most often, people associate creativity with something intellectual, a particular way of thinking. The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self—our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.
~ Robert Greene
We all have limitations—our energies and skills will take us only so far. Danger comes from trying to surpass our limits.
~ Robert Greene
Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feeling motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive.
~ Robert Greene
Your timidity infects people with awkward energy, elicits embarrassment. Doubt springs up on all sides. Boldness destroys such gaps.
~ Robert Greene
When you look at the exceptionally creative work of Masters, you must not ignore the years of practice, the endless routines, the hours of doubt, and the tenacious overcoming of obstacles these people endured. Creative energy is the fruit of such efforts and nothing else.
~ Robert Greene
Sudden Gains or Losses Sudden success or winnings can be very dangerous. Neurologically, chemicals are released in the brain that give a powerful jolt of arousal and energy, leading to the desire to repeat this experience.
~ Robert Greene
Thus the thermal energy released during the A.D. 79 eruption would have been roughly 2 x 1018 joules—or about 100,000 times that of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
~ Robert Harris
He was shaking violently. He had to clench his teeth to stop them chattering. And yet, oddly, he felt no panic. Panic was quite different to fear, he was discovering. Panic was moral and nervous collapse, a waste of precious energy, whereas fear was all sinew and instinct: an animal that stood up on its hind legs and filled you completely, that took control of your brain and your muscles.
~ Robert Harris
ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.
~ Robert Heinlein
It takes numerous encounters with positive people to offset the energy and happiness sapped by a single episode with one asshole.
~ Robert I. Sutton