Van Jones Quotes

The more we deploy the technologies to capture wind and solar power, the cheaper those technologies become.

Van Jones

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• If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.

  

  Patch Adams
  • World
  • Money
  • Power

• The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Power
  • Church
  • Thought

• We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Time
  • Long
  • Technology

• I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Trying
  • Power

• Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Money
  • Power
  • Nature

• When e-commerce companies build scale, cost comes down. Companies that can handle scale and reduce costs over time will win. Margins will come from reducing costs over time and not by increasing prices. Technology is the answer at large scale.

  

  Sachin Bansal
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Win

• The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Power
  • Small

• Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Work
  • Power
  • Couple

• After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Children

• 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

• Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Power
  • Kindness
  • Our

• I've always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Life
  • World
  • Family

• It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Time
  • Power
  • Political

• If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • May
  • Technology
  • Wisdom

• The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Power
  • Society
  • Health

• The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • God
  • Power

• Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Evidence

• I am a self-taught water skier and wind surfer.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Water
  • Wind
  • Self-Taught

• Remain in wonder if you want mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. They end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Up
  • Wonder
  • Library

• Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job interview.

  

  Karen Bender
  • She
  • Job
  • Mother

• There's a constant tension in climbing, and really all exploration, between pushing yourself into the unknown but trying not to push too far. The best any of us can do is to tread that line carefully.

  

  Alex Honnold
  • Trying
  • Unknown

• I'm a gypsy: no education, no schooling, nothing. I don't care what people think of me. I don't care about being a hero, a role model, a champion.

  

  Tyson Fury
  • People
  • Education
  • Model

• Judge: Did you hear that, Mr. Cirroc?

  

  Phil Hartman
  • Judge

• The more we deploy the technologies to capture wind and solar power, the cheaper those technologies become.

  

  Van Jones
  • Power
  • Technology
  • Wind