“You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the same with plywood or veneer, or solid timber. Wood doesn't steal energy from your body the way glass and concrete steal heat. When it's hot, a wood house feels cooler than a concrete one, and when it's cold, the other way around.” WayFeelsBodyCertainHouseEnergyEffectsBuildingColdSkinsHotGlassesWoodsYour BodyStealingHeatConcreteTimberVeneerLimestone Author:Peter Zumthor
“Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically harmless but psychically enslaving. A community can choose between Methadone and "cold turkey"-between maintaining its addiction to alien energy and kicking it in painful cramps-but no society can have a population that is hooked on progressively larger numbers of energy slaves and whose members are also autonomously active.” IfsUseEnergyCommunityNumbersColdDrugMembersSlaveAddictionPopulationPainfulActiveScalesAliensAlternativesMassiveTurkeysMaintainingKickingHookedCrampsKicking ItCold TurkeyMethadone Author:Ivan Illich
“Imaginary testing is unreliable, and in many cases, it's a huge waste of time and energy. In truth you just don't know what will happen until you try. You may start a business, and it could take off in ways no one could predict. Or it could be a complete failure. You could ask for a date and end up with the partner of your dreams. Or you could be rejected cold. It's great to visualize what you want, but you never really know what's going to happen until you act.” KnowsWayWantTryingMayEndsDreamHappensActionAsksEnergyCasesHugeColdWasteWhat You WantPartnersYour DreamsWasting TimeImaginaryRejectedTestingTime And EnergyUnreliable Author:Steve Pavlina
“All the cold-reading clairvoyants and the nonsensical astrologers and absurd ESP merchants and other such people who talk about vibrations and energies.... God, if there's a word that drives me mad it's "energy" used in a nonsensical way-don't get me started!” PeopleIfsWayUsedReadingEnergyColdMadAbsurdVibrationsMerchantsNonsensicalEsp Author:Stephen Fry
“You are wrong if you think you cannot live without love. I cannot live without it. I do not mean that I go into a decline, develop odd symptoms, became a caricature. I mean that I cannot live well without it. I cannot think or act or speak or write or even dream with any kind of energy in the absence of love. I feel excluded from the living world. I become cold, fish-like, immobile. I implode.” IfsThinkingWorldLoveFeelsWritingWellsKindMeanDreamEnergySpeakColdFishesAbsenceOddDeclineSymptomsWithout LoveExcludedLive WellCaricatures Author:Anita Brookner
“Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.” EnergyQualityPoetColdGeniusJudgmentAmplify Book:Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets Source: Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.” LightOrderEnergyDarkGraceColdLibraryCalmWarmWitLakesRemindersLibrarianContinuityReservoirsLibraries And Librarians Author:Germaine Greer
“I know that if I do the right amount of, say, meditation and hot yoga or something, I can move the energy through my body and get rid of my cold within twenty-four hours.” IfsKnowsI CanBodyMovingEnergyHoursFourMeditationColdAmountYogaTwentiesHotHot Yoga Author:Jason Mraz
“In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But theworks of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.” HandsSpiritPassionEnergyToo MuchStyleColdAll ThingsInjusticeFinishedTouchedMaliceDoing GoodSluggishVehement Book:The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke Source: The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke