Energy Quotes: Empowering Thoughts & Inspirations

"Thirty percent of the Nation's energy comes off the gulf coast"

"Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing"

H. Stanley Judd, Author

"Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other"

Alex Noble

"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich"

Sarah Bernhardt, Actress

"If you're puzzled by what dark energy is, you're in good company"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination"

Ralph Marston, Writer

"Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy"

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Actress

"I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy"

Ezra Pound, Poet

"Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"I think America understands that energy security is a very important part of our national security. But if we are going to address energy security in a meaningful way going forward, we need to do it in a new manner. We cannot just be doing the same old thing"

Chris Van Hollen, Politician

"Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements"

Virgil Goode, Politician

"I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions"

Matt Cameron, Musician

"From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"Now, China, India have set goals. We're going to be able to review what they're doing. We're going to be able to challenge them if they don't meet those goals. We're going to pursue this anyway, because the President understands that our future lies with a clean energy economy. We've doubled renewables this year. There are millions of jobs to be had there, more energy security, so we're going to pursue this"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different"

Austin Peck, Actor

"As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas"

Julian Bond, Activist

"Our current energy policy is bankrupt"

Jim Costa, Politician

"Crime is naught but misdirected energy"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"Let's face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that's different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I'm going to be a better chef"

Thomas Keller, Celebrity

"The stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people's spirits and enthusiam are, and where their intellectual energy is"

James Daly, Actor

"Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market"

Gray Davis, Politician

"I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer"

Caroline Kennedy, Celebrity

"It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous"

Pierre Schaeffer, Composer

"The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be"

Lindsey Graham, Politician

"It's so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there's no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That's pretty well known"

Robert Atkins, Celebrity

"I am with you heart and soul in the great cause to which you are devoting all your energy and your life"

Frank Leslie, Artist

"When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now"

Dan Hawkins, Musician

"For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"Energy and persistence conquer all things"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

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

Voltaire, Writer

"The energy of the mind is the essence of life"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

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