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Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks - cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion. (David Allen, author)
The energy of the mind is the essence of life. (Aristotle)
Less talk - more work! There is too much talking going on. Because of excessive talking, spiritual energy is being wasted. (Sathya Sai Baba)
An extrovert is a person who is energized by being around other people. This is the opposite of an introvert who is energized by being alone. (Carol Bainbridge)
Energy is an eternal delight. (William Blake)
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy. (Anthony Burgess)
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant is energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. (Thomas Buxton)
You are energy, and energy cannot be created or destroyed. Energy just changes form. (Rhonda Byrne)
- Scientific American, January 24, 2012...
It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population. (Susan Cain)
I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!' (Elias Canetti)
Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. (G. K. Chesterton)
A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it. (G. K. Chesterton)
Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the first of all the subjects of art. (Sir Kenneth Clark)
Artists need to learn to manage their energy level. We are not machines. (Paul deMarrais)
The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen. (Placido Domingo)
Failures always overtake those who have the power to do, without the will to act, and who need that essential quality in life, energy. (James Ellis)
The world belongs to the energetic. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
When people have good energy, I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy. (Jean Paul Gaultier)
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. (Shakti Gawain)
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Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy. (Vincent van Gogh)
Talk therapy is a good way to tap your deep energies. (Steve Hovland)
A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life. (Carl Gustav Jung)
There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy. (Ken Kesey)
Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies. (Paul Klee)
Pablo Picasso was notorious for sucking the energy out of the people he met. His granddaughter Marina claimed that he squeezed people like one of his tubes of oil paints. You'd have a great time hanging out all day with Picasso, and then you'd go home nervous and exhausted, and Picasso would go back to his studio and paint all night, using the energy he'd sucked out of you. (Austin Kleon)
The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don't have that energy if you waste it on other stuff. (Austin Kleon)
I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do. (Wanda Koop)
When any one of us is aligned with our purpose, there is an inexhaustible source of energy. Once you're aligned with your purpose, the energy is always there to do whatever you need. You never get tired, and you do everything with a sense of joy. It's actually effortless – it's a flow. (Dennis Kucinich)
Absurdity and anti-absurdity are the two poles of creative energy. (Karl Lagerfeld)
Establish an atmosphere that energizes you. Some creative people flourish in confusion; others need to be free from interruption. Many prepare themselves for work by exercising to stimulate circulation; others meditate to quiet the chatter of the outer world. (Nita Leland)
For a long time, I could not tame the energy and dreaded it. (Alfredo Liongoren)
Fewer brushstrokes make a bigger statement since they breathe life and energy into the work. (David Lussier)
If you're eating poorly, neglecting your health, or living a high-stress lifestyle, you're depleting your inner resources. That will make it difficult to maintain the energy you need to participate fully and actively in your life. (Lauren Mackler)
In art, truth and reality begin when you no longer understand anything you do or know and there remains in you an energy, that much stronger for being balanced by opposition, compressed, condensed. Then you must present it with the greatest humility. (Henri Matisse)
A nap is what most people really need to stave off sleepiness and get an energy boost. (Sara C. Mednick)
Energy and perseverance can fit a man for almost any kind of position. (Theodore F. Merseles)
The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child. (Maria Montessori)
A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent. (Henry Moore)
Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make. (Henry Moore)
We perceive abstraction and figuration as contradictory. In contradiction lies energy – most things that are important come in part out of contradiction. (Catherine Murphy)
Don't wait for what you need – put in the energy to create what you need. (David Oleski)
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. (Norman Vincent Peale)
Where attention goes, energy flows; Where intention goes, energy flows. (James Redfield)
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results. (Tony Robbins)
There is no energy more powerful than love. Love creates miracles, heals all wounds, and purifies all lower energies. You cannot give love away, for the more you give, the more you will receive in return. (Sanaya Roman)
Karma is an energy debt which you owe or an energy credit which is owed you. Both involve compound interest that is added to the equation making it either a burden or a blessing. (Paul Russo)
Energy and art go where they will. (Jerry Saltz)
Virtue is reason which has become energy. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action. (Samuel Smiles)
Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something. (Kiki Smith)
The muscles of our energy must be continually exercised. Thus, gradually, we gain momentum and purpose. (Yoga Sutras)
Energy and time are finite resources; conserving them is very important. (Twyla Tharp)
-in a letter to Orion Clemens, June 1860...
Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it! (Mark Twain)
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us - concentrate our energy. (Denis Waitley)
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then often times we find that it is comparatively simple to double or triple our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results. (Thomas J. Watson, Sr.)
Spend your energy to get joy, happiness, evolution, and to gain more ability to enjoy. In this field we spend our energy. We never use our time, energy, speech, or ability to do something that doesn't help us grow and improve our life. It's not worth it. (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
Every intention sets energy into motion, whether you are conscious of it or not. (Gary Zukav)
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