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Quotes About Energy

I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City.
~ Colum McCann
Officially, the program was for the peaceful development of nuclear energy. The entire world knew this to be a lie, for the simple fact that Iran was blessed with massive oil and gas reserves. Economically, it made no sense to spend billions developing a nuclear program when cheap oil and gas were abundantly available. What they needed were refineries.
~ Vince Flynn
Vanessa was pondering the Spanish insistence on love. Did the Latin male consider it was all women were born for, to feel and give love; to devote all their life and energy to it?
~ Violet Winspear
Mind moves matter.
~ Virgil
caput acris equi;
~ Virgil
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
~ Virginia Wolfe
The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back with the energy of their fall. The waves were steeped deep-blue save for a pattern of diamond-pointed light on their backs which rippled as the backs of great horses ripple with muscles as they move. The waves fell; withdrew and fell again, like the thud of a great beast stamping.
~ Virginia Woolf
There is nothing staid, nothing settled, in this universe. All is rippling, all is dancing; all is quickness and triumph.
~ Virginia Woolf
For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn...
~ Virginia Woolf
to teach without zest is a crime.
~ Virginia Woolf
I dance. I ripple. I am thrown over you like a net of light. I lie quivering flung over you.
~ Virginia Woolf
to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.
~ Virginia Woolf
Like the pulse of a perfect heart, life struck straight through the streets.
~ Virginia Woolf
All night men and women seethed up and down the well-known beats.
~ Virginia Woolf
She blazed. She kindled. Out of the night she burnt like a white star.
~ Virginia Woolf
The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.
~ Vivekananda
At the very center of all human life is energy, psychic energy. It is the force of that energy that drives us, that surges continually up in us, that must repeatedly spend and renew itself in us, that must perpetually be reaching for something beyond itself in order to satisfy its own insatiable appetite.
~ Vivian Gornick
It is all part of the fun of being young and alive and beautiful
~ Vladimir Nabokov
picnic, lightning)
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Voluntary cooperation is more than mechanical execution, where people do only what it takes to get by. It involves going beyond the call of duty, wherein individuals exert energy and initiative to the best of their abilities—even subordinating personal self-interest—to execute resulting strategies.
~ W. Chan Kim
According to Gallup, only 30% of employees actively apply their talent and energy to move their organizations forward.
~ W. Chan Kim
He aims at the kind of spontaneous performance which occurs only when the mind is calm and seems at one with the body, which finds its own surprising ways to surpass its own limits again and again. Moreover, while overcoming the common hang-ups of competition, the player of the inner game uncovers a will to win which unlocks all his energy and which is never discouraged by losing.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
He aims at the kind of spontaneous performance which occurs only when the mind is calm and seems at one with the body, which finds its own surprising ways to surpass its own limits again and again. Moreover, while overcoming the common hang-ups of competition, the player of the inner game uncovers a will to win which unlocks all his energy and which is never discouraged by losing. There
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
~ Lao Tzu