Energy Direction Quotes

Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere.

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

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.

It's mental discipline that sets one apart, the ability to think differently and to generate energy in the right direction.

The only way to permanently install a new habit is to direct so much energy toward it that the old one slips away like an unwelcome house guest.

I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way.

When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.

Direct your energy toward achieving a goal, and tackle the problems with an emphasis on edging closer to a successful result.

The problem is that the energy in the Republican Party today is not directed at how to make government work better. It is directed against government.

I think there came a time - probably when I was about 13 - when I started to struggle with an increasing volume of schoolwork and the demands from my golfing schedule and aspirations. I'm not sure if the decision to leave school was very clear in my mind then but I did know that in the juggling between the two, my energies were most definitely in the golfing direction.

President Sarkozy had a great deal of energy, but the question is where does the energy go?

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

If you want to become a better listener, however you need to learn to direct that energy and attention positively by concentrating on the person you're with.

It is much more accurate to identify the factors of production as know-how (that is genetic information structure), energy, and materials, for, as we have seen, all processes of production involve the direction of energy by some know-how structure toward the selection, transportation, and transformation of materials into the product

From a professional standpoint, our transformation of the labor landscape at scale through technology with Levo is the highest and best direction of my energy.

If not for music in my life as a young person, who knows where I would have focused my energy.

The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.

I don't know anything but writing practice, and so what I really do is direct that energy as if it were flowing down a river.