Thermostat Quotes

#1. Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed out inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure.

Gay Hendricks

#2. He was being mighty chary with my money. Now that I was so rich, I could fling open the windows and doors and set the thermostat on forty, if I wanted to do something so foolish and wasteful.

Charlaine Harris

#3. Turning the thermostat down is something that I do pretty reluctantly. I like to be able to walk around in whatever I fancy at home.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#4. I enjoy working for my heat. I don't just press a button or twist a thermostat dial. I use the big crosscut saw and the axe, and while I'm getting my heat supply I'm working up an appetite that makes simple food just as appealing as anything a French chef could create.

Richard Proenneke

#5. We need to know how we are feeling. Mindfully acknowledging our feelings serves as an 'emotional thermostat' that recalibrates our decision making. It's not that we can't be anxious, it's that we need to acknowledge to ourselves that we are.

Noreena Hertz

#6. You can be like a thermometer, just reflecting the world around you. Or you can be a thermostat, one of those people who sets the temperature.

Cory Booker

#7. We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

Terence McKenna

#8. The answer is simple. If we lose the world's forests, we lose the fight against climate change. Rainforests are our Earth's greatest utility - our planet's lungs, thermostat and air-conditioning system.

Michael Somare

#9. Do not allow yourself to be a thermometer which gauges the temperature, rather be a thermostat which changes your environment.

Asa Don Brown

#10. There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer will tell you what the temperature is. A thermostat will not only tell you what the temperature is, but it'll move you to the temperature you need to get to.

Kevin McCarthy

#11. Man is now in charge of the thermostat for the globe.

Tom Udall

#12. Personally, I have already turned down the Downing St thermostat by 1 degree

Tony Blair

#13. Not wasting any water bottles is good. Not leaving the lights on is good. Turning the thermostat down in the winter, up in the summer, is good. But the best thing any of us in the developed world, especially in the United States, can be doing is talking about it.

Bill Nye

#14. The maintenance man is moving the thermostat in our office today. I started talking with him about the

Scott Adams

#15. You can be in Downward Dog, hating every second of it. Or you can be in this pose, peaceful and nonreactive, breathing calmly. Either way, you're in this pose. You decide the quality of your experience. Be the thermostat, not the temperature.

Lisa Genova

#16. The leader's Attitude is like a thermostat for the place she works. If her attitude is good, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the environment is easy to work in. But if her attitude is bad, the temperature is insufferable.

John C. Maxwell

#17. Because everyone in the world has the power to edit, Wikipedia has long been plagued by the so-called edit war. This is like a house where the husband wants it warm and the wife wants it cool and they sneak back and forth adjusting the thermostat at cross purposes.

James Gleick

#18. The first indication of menopause is a broken thermostat. It's either that or your weight. In any case, if you don't do something, you could be dead by August.
God, middle age is an unending insult.

Dorothea Benton Frank

#19. But somehow Carter's "battlefield of energy" never really filled up with eager American combatants. It just never felt like anybody was going to be draped in glory for taking public transportation, or carpooling, or turning down the thermostat and wearing a cardigan.

Rachel Maddow

#20. If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.

Susie Orbach

#21. Nest Thermostat owners like the carbon monoxide link. If Nest Protect's carbon monoxide alarm goes off, the Nest Thermostat automatically turns off the gas furnace.

Tony Fadell

#22. Excluding the God of providence in your life's configuration and design is like removing the thermostat from a thermodynamic system.

Ikechukwu Joseph

#23. The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles o popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#24. Choose your own mental state, rather than letting the environment govern it. Be a thermostat, not a thermometer.

Pavan Choudary

#25. I have been working with Hive, part of British Gas, on reinventing the thermostat. Now you can control your heating at the press of a button on your phone. As I say, design should permeate every part of society.

Yves Behar

#26. The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.

T. Harv Eker

#27. Are you a thermometer or a thermostat? A thermometer only reflects the temperature of its environment, adjusting to the situation. But a thermostat initiates action to change the temperature in its environment

Nido R. Qubein

#28. Rather than allowing external forces to define how we feel inside, each of us can be our own thermostat.

William Powers

#29. The world cannot live without the Arctic; it affects every living thing on Earth and acts as a virtual thermostat, reflecting sunlight and cooling the planet.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#30. People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer.

Ed Begley Jr.

#31. He is a thermostat leader, not a thermometer ... He does not react to the environment he's in. He changes every environment he's in.

Trent Dilfer

#32. Consider a clock thermostat, and set it so that you're not using energy when you don't need it, when you're out of your house.

Al Gore

#33. But then, that was the trouble with relationships generally. They had their own temperature and there was no thermostat.

Nick Hornby

#34. You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

Cornel West