Dissipated Energy Quotes

#1. Luxuries and indulgences were distractions from true greatness, tawdry and ephemeral baubles that dissipated energy that could be directed toward more meaningful and durable accomplishments in the world around him.

Ramez Naam

#2. She dressed for a future not yet with us but which she expected to arrive.

Zadie Smith

#3. Moviemaking is a time machine: narrative spliced into fragments and reassembled into a constant present, the end of a story shot before the beginning, which is shot after the middle.

Steve Erickson

#4. To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.

George Herbert

#5. I don't think I should have been married ... to anybody.

Mercedes McCambridge

#6. [ ... ] love is a do thing. It's an energy that has to be dissipated.

Bob Goff

#7. Americans have dissipated their racial energy in an orgy of stone-breaking. In their few years they have broken more stones than did centuries of Egyptians, and they have done their work hysterically, desperately, almost as if they knew that the stones would some day break them.

Nathanael West

#8. It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital. Otherwise your energy and attention must be dissipated instead of being concentrated.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#9. It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

Guy Kawasaki

#10. Trusting fear, while fearing trust and happiness often creates a less than happy life.

Bill Crawford

#11. When energy is profoundly dissipated, the ability to think is clearly eroded, and the capacity to actively engage in the efforts and pleasures of life is fundamentally altered, then depression becomes an illness rather than a temporary or existential state.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#12. As I'd listened in on the conversation, I'd noted what seemed to be disappointment in Loving's voice. I wondered if that was due to his reluctance to cease playing this game with me personally. But that was perhaps projecting my feelings onto him. I

Jeffery Deaver

#13. When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

Agatha Christie

#14. That which concerns everyone must also be discussed and approved by everyone.

Guy Verhofstadt

#15. Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Albert Camus

#16. Creativity is your ability to turn nothing into something.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#17. He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal.

Leo Tolstoy

#18. A lot of leading countries in the world, including the United States and Russia, have to take their responsibilities much more seriously to ensure we are back on the road to peace and stability.

Peter Hain