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Quotes About Energy

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.
~ Henry Ford
Ideas are, in truth, force.
~ Henry James
Almost all empires were created by force, but none can be sustained by it. Universal rule, to last, needs to translate force into obligation. Otherwise, the energies of the rulers will be exhausted in maintaining their dominance at the expense of their ability to shape the future, which is the ultimate task of statesmanship. Empires persist if repression gives way to consensus.
~ Henry Kissinger
Almost all empires were created by force, but none can be sustained by it. Universal rule, to last, needs to translate force into obligation. Otherwise, the energies of the rulers will be exhausted in maintaining their dominance at the expense of their ability to shape the future, which is the ultimate task of statesmanship. Empires persist if repression gives way to consensus. So
~ Henry Kissinger
In the military context, shi connotes the strategic trend and "potential energy" of a developing situation, "the power inherent in the particular arrangement of elements and… its developmental tendency."38 In The Art of War, the word connotes the ever-changing configuration of forces as well as their general trend.
~ Henry Kissinger
Žádná spole?nost nikdy nemÄ›la sílu, žádný v?dce odolnost a žádná víra energii nutnou k tomu, aby své zákony prosadila trvale na celém svÄ›tÄ›. Univerzální moc se prokázala jako nedosažitelná a islám v tomto bodÄ› není výjimkou.
~ Henry Kissinger
Blood flashes through the brain in a matter of seconds, one quarter of all the blood from the heart, darkening as the brain takes the oxygen out of it. Thinking, perceiving and feeling, and the control of our bodies, most of it unconscious, are energy-intensive processes fuelled by oxygen.
~ Henry Marsh
The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.
~ Henry Miller
What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.
~ Henry Rollins
Reality has always bored me senseless. It drains my energy. Many years ago, I realized I was going to process life though a music purification system. It worked, too. When I listen to music, read or write about music, think about music, everything gets better. Music allows me to travel in my mind. We spend a good part of our lives in places we don't want to be in and with people we don't want to be around. I'm trying to keep all that to a minimum.
~ Henry Rollins
No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.
~ Henry Van Dyke
A boy's will is the wind's will,And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
What energy!' I thought. 'Man has conquered everything, and destroyed millions of plants, yet this one won't submit.
~ Leo Tolstoy
He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I must drink lots of tea or I cannot work. Tea unleashes the potential which slumbers in the depth of my soul.
~ Leo Tolstoy
God gave the day, God gave the strength.
~ Leo Tolstoy
As when a window is opened a whiff of fresh air from the fields enters a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confidence of success reached Kutuzov's cheerless staff with the galloping advent of all these brilliant young men.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Como se através de uma janela aberta num quarto abafado soprasse de repente um ar fresco do campo, assim também soprou, no abatido estado-maior de Kutúzov, a mocidade, a energia e a convicção da vitória que vinham daquela juventude radiosa que chegara a galope.
~ Leo Tolstoy
i wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. i wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. i felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life. i suffered most from the feeling that custom was daily petrifying our lives into one fixed shape, that our minds were losing their freedom and becoming enslaved to the steady passionless course of time.
~ Leo Tolstoy
La energía se basa en el amor y no es posible adquirir amor a la fuerza.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The third escape is that of strength and energy. It consists in destroying life, when one has understood that it is an evil and an absurdity.
~ Leo Tolstoy
You're powers are tied to your emotions, all you have to do is focus.
~ Leo Wyatt
Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine the way in which we use or squander our energy, time, and land resources.
~ Leon Krier