Energy Quotes

The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be appropriate and sustainable and, above all, acceptable to local people.

~ Owen Paterson

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

~ Andy Goldsworthy

So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.

~ Talib Kweli

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

~ Bill Gates

The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.

~ Christian De Duve

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

~ Denis Waitley

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

~ Sloan Wilson

I don't think enough players channel the energy of the crowd. If it's done properly, and you don't let anger overwhelm and distract you, it's like a shot of adrenaline in the arm, and it gets the crowd pumped up.

~ John Mcenroe

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

~ Gary Oldman

I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.

~ John F. Kerry

If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.

~ Barry Commoner

I believe climate change is real and that we can save our planet while creating millions of good-paying clean energy jobs.

~ Hillary Clinton

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

~ Tom Peters

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

~ Eva Gabor

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

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

~ Annie Dillard

I think the future for solar energy is bright.

~ Ken Salazar

The planet's environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy consumption.

~ Sheherazade Goldsmith

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

~ Al Gore

We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. It's just not in usable form yet.

~ Peter Diamandis

Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.

~ David Suzuki

Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.

~ Marsha Blackburn

Congress has no business telling courts within a state that they are prohibited from considering issues involving a lease for energy development, production, and exploration that has the potential to cause irreparable environmental and economic damage to the Gulf Coast area of that state.

~ Ted Deutch

As fears about the energy and environmental crises reach a fever pitch, we're all searching for solutions. And one possibility is that we could fix everything if we'd just shrink our population back down to about 2 billion people - which would put us roughly where we were at 80 years ago.

~ Annalee Newitz

It is the public that is illiterate in science and math, a lazy press, and environmental advocacy groups that manufacture fear for misconceptions about energy.

~ Rex Tillerson

The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.

~ Barry Commoner

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

~ David R. Brower

Energy cogeneration on Capitol Hill makes economic and environmental sense and should be pursued for those reasons.

~ Ander Crenshaw

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.

~ Jay Inslee

Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.

~ Melissa Bean

The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.

~ Dan Lipinski

The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use.

~ Dan Lipinski

I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue.

~ John Hickenlooper

If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas.

~ Judy Biggert

We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

~ Mac Thornberry

I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.

~ Joe Barton

Americans increasingly understand that clean energy is more than just an environmental issue. It is crucial to reducing our dangerous dependence on foreign countries.

~ Martin Heinrich

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft

The idea that we are going to be able to take our entire society as it currently works and simply change the source of energy and make it sustainable is not actually congruent with reality.

~ Alex Steffen

There's no place that communicates as much - and as quickly - as Times Square does. I see the roiling energy and its forceful race into the future. Of course, after 15 minutes, I want to get as far away from there as possible.

~ Jan Vogler