“Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.” PeopleNeedsArtBookSelfMightChoicesWinningEnergySocialEasyViewsMediaSocial MediaSelf WorthLikesFollowersVenture Author:Neil Strauss
“You can go to the pictures or read a book, but football constantly comes back into your mind. It's not a job, it's a life. It takes up your time, thoughts and energy and it can damage relationships with those around you.” MindBookJobsEnergyFootballDamage Author:Howard Wilkinson
“Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle physics explicitly permitted possibilities like molecular nanotechnology or the Penrose process for extracting energy from black holes, most people filed that away in the same section of their brain that stored fairy tales and history books, well away from their personal realities: Long ago and far away, ever so long ago.” PeopleWorldWellsLongBookRealityEnergyProcessBlackBrainCarPossibilityLimitsPhysicsHolesTalesDefinedFairyFairy TaleFar AwayLong AgoSectionsTelephonesBlack HoleHistory BooksNanotechnologyMuggles Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“A tell-all book by David Axelrod, one of President Obama's former strategists, reveals that Obama chose Joe Biden as his VP because of his energy and enthusiasm. You know, the qualities you look for in someone whose main job is traveling to state funerals.” KnowsLooksBookStatesJobsEnergyPresidentQualityEnthusiasmFormerFuneralPresident ObamaStrategistBidenEnergy And Enthusiasm Author:Jimmy Fallon
“I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to increase career and academic success, the Zen of sports, reincarnation, karma, sex, the experience of "suchness" or a new book by Stephen King.” MindMayBookUseEnergySexSportsCareersBuddhismKingsLosingIncreaseKarmaContemporaryCinemaShopsAcademicReincarnationRamaMallsNew BooksPower Of The MindAcademic Success Author:Frederick Lenz
“I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an armchair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived. But he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right.” IfsWayArtSaidBookWould BeEnergyLanguageTroubleBrotherProveAmbitionSolutionsCriminalsSuperiorsObservationAgentsMy BrotherReasoningDetectivesDeductionsVerifyArmchairsNo Energy Book:The Best of Sherlock Holmes Source: The Best of Sherlock Holmes
“It's easy to sell good news like this, and the authors confidently rely on classic fallacious arguments. They argue by declaration, which is what makes the books so amusing. In matter-of-fact, authoritative tones, the authors tell us how plants and human beings exchange energy - or they describe what angels look like, whether or how they're sexed, how they communicate with human beings, and how they differ from ghosts. Readers might be expected to wonder, How do they know?” KnowsHumansLooksBookMatterFactsMightEnergyEasyHuman BeingsWonderAtheismReaderNewsAngelArgumentSellsPlantCommunicatePositive AtheismExpectedArguingGhostClassicToneRelyDeclarationGood NewsAmusingMatter Of Fact Author:Wendy Kaminer
“I feel like all this stuff that we make: books and art and music, all of it. There's this energy that circles the world that wants to be made manifest, and it is just looking for someone to come through. And it's dying for you to make it. And if you don't do it, it will go find somebody else.” IfsWorldWantFeelsArtMadeBookEnergyStuffDyingCirclesManifestArt And Music Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that the breaking-up of his collection of books almost invariably follows; the building up of a good library, the work of a lifetime, has been so much labour lost, so far as future generations are concerned. Talent, yes, and genius too, are displayed not only in writing books but also in buying them, and it is a pity that the ruthless hammer of the auctioneer should render so much energy and skill fruitless.” MenShouldWritingHas BeensBookFactsSeemsEnergyLostGenerationsTalentBuildingGeniusSkillsConcernedLifetimeLibraryPityBuyingCollectionsLabourHammersFuture GenerationRuthlessWriting A BookSaddestBuilding Up Book:The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson) Source: The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson)
“One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book.” WantWritingFirstsLongBookUseThreeEnergyTermTrapsPitfallsTrilogies Author:Justin Cronin
“The biggest fatal flaw in most fictional portrayals of nanotech - what sends those books arcing across the room - is ignoring that the nanobots need energy to do... anything.” NeedsBookEnergyRoomsFlawsPortrayalFatal Flaws Author:Edward M. Lerner
“When I sit down to write a book, I do not know where the energy and the words come from. I just sit down, and soon it is flowing through my hand and onto the paper.” KnowsWritingBookHandsEnergyPaperDown And Author:Wayne Dyer
“Most men have a sunny spot to which they look back in their existence, as most have an impossible future, to attain which all their energies are exerted, and their resources employed. The difference between these visionary scenes is this, that they think a good deal of the latter, but talk a good deal of the former.” ThinkingMenLooksBookEnergyDifferencesDealsExistenceImpossibleSceneResourcesSpotsFormerLatterEmployedVisionariesSunny Book:Works Source: Works
“I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy to do a book.” FirstsBookLastsEnergyAmount Author:Jan Brett