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"Self-awareness includes awareness of your mental realm, which encompasses your thoughts, feelings, energy, and emotions."
"It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism... such a talent was Janis Joplin."
"We paired this announcement of the R&D [commitment] with the so-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which is 27 [major investors] saying, "Hey, we'll put significant money into [energy innovations] when they're ready to spin out probably into startup companies.""
"The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate. In fact, I would have said we should more than double it, if I thought the absorptive capacity could scale up and if it was actually possible to get to that level."
"The US in some ways has been the best. Who figured out shale gas? Although that wasn't a good thing [for CO2 levels], it was very innovative. It's led to low-cost energy. Who figured out nuclear power? Largely the United States. Once you get past the steam engine, which is mostly British, then the US has been at the center of most of the energy things that have happened."
"There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure."
"Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works."
"A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy."
"In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates."
"Time is priceless. Spend it with people you have high value and energy exchange rates with."
"Any time we have projects that we haven't begun or completed, they drain energy."
"It is good to be different, because difference is great; that's what this music is based on. But lose that energy between the audience and the players, and you have nothing."
"In general the languages of most unpolished people have a great force and energy of expression; and this is but natural. Uncultivated people are but ordinary observers of things, and not critical in distinguishing them; but, for that reason, they admire more, and are more affected with what they see, and therefore express themselves in a warmer and more passionate manner."
"One individual who lives and vibrates to the energy of pure love and reverence for all of life will counterbalance the negativity of 750,000 individuals who calibrate at the lower weakening levels."
"When you trace a particle back to its origins, you find that it's nothing but pure energy. All of us come from this energy field."
"You are a holistic being with both nondualistic energy and the energy of the physical plane as a part of your being at your disposal."
"Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight."
"Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old."
"Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby."