Norm MacDonald Quotes

Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.

Norm MacDonald

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• I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Energy
  • City
  • Hard

• I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Want
  • Energy
  • Know

• I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Think
  • Energy
  • Fast

• How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • You
  • Energy
  • Rest

• Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Quality

• Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Help
  • Parents

• I haven't always been confident. I actually suffered with low self-esteem growing up. Eventually, I got to a point where I was just like, 'OK, this is taking too much energy.' After that, I started accepting myself for who I was, and I was like, whoever is not going to accept it, they weren't really meant to be in my life in that way.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Life
  • Up
  • Energy

• Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Today
  • Energy
  • India

• I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Energy
  • Foundation
  • Task

• I try to manage my time to conserve energy.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Try

• Whether it is salt farmers in India embracing solar power or wind companies creating tens of thousands of jobs in America, people are providing a vision for the clean energy future.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• China leads the world in energy consumption, carbon emissions, and the release of major air and water pollutants, and the environmental impact is felt both regionally and globally.

  

  Ma Jun
  • World
  • Energy
  • Water

• The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Work
  • Real
  • Energy

• Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Good
  • Great
  • May

• Yes, I love the glamour industry. I love the work that I've done so far. But it's not as if I have this biting ambition to be at the top.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Work
  • Love
  • Ambition

• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • True
  • Poverty

• You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you're not on the path to a clean energy future.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • World
  • Future
  • Energy

• Considering the greater amounts of energy which can be collected and stored in suitable experimental form in capacitors, one could expect to deliver radiated energy for some time from them.

  

  Karl Ferdinand Braun
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Expect

• If they only showed Love, they would own love.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Love
  • Own
  • Only

• Genocide, in my opinion - is an attempt by a powerful group completely to eradicate from the face of the Earth the existence of people because of their ethnic makeup or because of their race or religion, and that was the case with Hitler trying to exterminate the Jews, and that was the case in Rwanda, when the Tutsis were attacked and over 500,000 were killed in two or three days.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Opinion
  • Jews
  • Hitler

• If you do not assume the law of non-contradiction, you have nothing to argue about. If you do not assume the principles of sound reason, you have nothing to argue with. If you do not assume libertarian free will, you have no one to argue against. If you do not assume morality to be an objective commodity, you have no reason to argue in the first place.

  

  William J. Murray
  • Reason
  • Morality
  • Arguing

• I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

  

  Kenan Thompson
  • Up
  • Writing

• I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Future
  • Three
  • Impact

• Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Energy
  • Ambition
  • Activity