Sadoway Quotes

#1. Sadoway does more than entertain; he gives you a glimpse into the future of energy.

Jeffrey Kluger

#2. If our system of cabinet government is to work effectively, the prime minister of the day must appoint ministers he or she trusts and then leave them to carry out that policy.

Nigel Lawson

#3. The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.

Caleb Cushing

#4. With a giant battery, we'd be able to address the problem of intermittency that prevents wind and solar from contributing to the grid in the same way that coal and gas and nuclear do today.

Donald Sadoway

#5. The falling away of things we carry around with us, twilight and chimney smoke.

Don DeLillo

#6. I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.

Venus Williams

#7. If we're going to get this country out of its current energy situation, we can't just conserve our way out; we can't just drill our way out; we can't bomb our way out. We're going to do it the old-fashioned American way, we're going to invent our way out, working together.

Donald Sadoway

#8. Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.

Donald Sadoway

#9. We learn to endure to the end by learning to finish our current responsibilities, and we simply continue doing it all of our lives. We cannot expect to learn endurance in our later years if we have developed the habit of quitting when things get difficult now.

Robert D. Hales

#10. The students who work with me believe in science in service of society, not science in service of career building.

Donald Sadoway

#11. ...never act on the impulse of that feeling. If you do, you will cause difficult situations to arise which will take years to untangle. Wait for God's timing and He will do it without any heartache or disappointment.

Oswald Chambers

#12. People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.

Donald Sadoway

#13. I am at the point in my life where I no longer know another person in my shoes. I could count on my friend Colleen for a long time, but then she had to go and get a pseudo-boyfriend last year. I couldn't believe that. It was almost like she wasn't thinking about how her relationship would affect me.

Katie Heaney

#14. That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.

Saadi

#15. In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.

Donald Sadoway

#16. How do we attack important problems? Pose the right question.

Donald Sadoway

#17. The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.

Donald Sadoway