Ted Dwane Quotes

Society receives its momentum from power.

Every time we play our music in clubs, there's such a strong reaction.

Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.

Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

Today's records, even though they may be lyrically repetitive and not saying anything particularly heavy, they have energy.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day: 'tis the heat which sets our human atoms spinning, overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds, and first addresses in society, and gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue, when once it is begun.

Purpose directs energy, and purpose makes energy.

I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down.

The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.

Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human action is given by material impulses ... merchants stood as a driving force behind the heroes of the age of discovery; this first heroic impulse to conquer the world emanated from very mortal forces

...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.

It's been really slow obviously, but I'm not worried about that. I feel like from where I was a couple months ago, things are a lot better. Just being able to skate and stuff was encouraging. Hopefully the next step doesn't have any hurdles.

Comedy has to have momentum in order for it to keep moving along.

Starts out slow and then fizzles out altogether.

Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.

Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.

There were a bunch of moments that kept cascading. Like, when we got an opportunity to play "Letterman", it gave us an opportunity to step up. It feels good to shed that skin and rise out of it.

The motive power is the cause of all life.

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

to leap is not only to leap, it is to hit the ground somewhere.

I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude.

Because the moment you stop doing the very things that got you to the top of the mountain is the very moment you begin the slid down to the valley.

Oh dear, all those words again," thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. "How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a--" "Be very quiet," advised the duke, "for it goes without saying.

A decision is the focusing of the Energy of desire, and the decision point happens when the desire is powerful enough.