Quotes About Energy

When you're young you don't know anything, but you have lot of energy to express yourself. So you make a lot of mistakes and you stumble, but you also get a lot of truth from within.

If you did not have any personality, you would have a tremendous presence. The more rigid your personality, the more constipated your whole being.

For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light.

Life depends on, how much you're alive

Energy is the belief in a separation and that which creates and keeps the illusion alive.

Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.

In order to thrive, connect to and engage in what is Life-Generating and avoid or prevent what is Life-Depleting in any way you can.

I drink cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself.

God is peace, bliss, beauty and truth. Focus your energy on that, life will be like that.

What we must do now is create ourselves—not re-create, but create. This is why it is cruel. When we first did this, we had all the energy of youth. We did not know that attaining our dreams would be impossible—we just went out and got them. Innocence shielded us. Enthusiasm and unflagging confidence got us through. But now we have none of that. Now we are old, wiser, tired.

punk rock could be anything anyone wanted it to be.

Rock in general is about that emotional release

KNOW THE SECRET: ROCK 'N' ROLL IS A TEENAGE SPORT, MEANT TO BE PLAYED BY TEENAGERS OF ALL AGES—THEY COULD BE 15, 25 OR 35. IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO WHETHER THEY'VE GOT THE LOVE IN THEIR HEARTS, THAT BEAUTIFUL TEENAGE SPIRIT…

Conley was not, as they say in recovery-speak, a "jackpot drinker," prone to big, messy binges that leave disasters in their wake. "It was more of a controlled, low-level draining of my energies and output," he says. "I could feel my songwriting falling off. I was just having a harder time finishing things, really getting a little stuck.

Gordon wrote in one 1983 essay. "As a performer you sacrifice yourself, you go through the motions and emotions of sexuality for all the people who pay to see it, to believe that it exists. The better and more convincing the performance, the more an audience can identify with the exterior involved in such an expenditure of energy.

punk placed no premium on technique or production values.

it was a phrase, it had power, I had this riff.

punk rock doesn't have to mean hardcore or one style of music or just singing the same lyrics," he said. "It can mean freedom and going crazy and being personal with your art.

Hardcore's organizational energy was just as important as its musical energy—

The word overskud, meaning a kind of surplus of energy. As in, "I can't cut the lawn now—after that great big boozy lunch I simply don't have the overskud.

Most of the questions people asked you, he felt, were there to fill up dead space, curtail your movements, divert your energy and attention. Anyway, my grandfather and his emotions were never really on speaking terms.

It's like there's a film score playing behind him, heavy on the castanets.

There's a fool of a devil in him that wants to feel the thrum of current. There's a current in him that wants to feel the devil in the wire.

Most of the questions people asked you, he felt, were there to fill up dead space, curtail your movements, divert your energy and attention.