Charles Proteus Steinmetz Quotes

Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz

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• In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • American
  • Die

• People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Work
  • Too Much

• I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Silence

• For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • World
  • Real
  • Reading

• Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Diversity
  • Just
  • Big

• So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • You
  • Word
  • Crew

• The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Couple
  • Close
  • West

• I can be not showered and dressed like a slob, but my lip gloss will be on!

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Will
  • I Can
  • Dressed

• I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Believe
  • American
  • America

• I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.

  

  Wale
  • Think
  • Game
  • Weird

• I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Work
  • Play
  • Work Hard

• When you get told that you have a disease, it's like: 'Really? Nah, it's all right. I don't believe that. It must be something else, I'm just making an excuse, let me push harder.'

  

  Venus Williams
  • Believe
  • Right
  • Disease

• Everybody laughs all the time, and some of the worst things that happen make you laugh 'cause it's a defense isn't it, I suppose.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Laugh
  • Worst

• You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Trying
  • Same
  • Influence

• We don't look at records, but if we can make history in this club, we will. It's not only about Chelsea, this league.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • History
  • Look
  • Club

• Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Heart
  • Space
  • Pain

• All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Value
  • Things
  • Human

• A child growing up in an excessively safe environment may never learn that he is one - not until he gets married and has a wife to tell him so.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • May
  • Growing

• In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Energy
  • Always
  • Lights

• My aunt Julie was a production manager, and she heard of an opening. Some show was looking for children to run around the house or whatever. I auditioned and got the part, and I showed up in all of my monstrous energy, bouncing everywhere like an electron.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Up
  • Children
  • She

• Mitt Romney's energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fate of the planet is at stake.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Energy
  • Fate

• The most important job of the brain is to ensure our survival, even under the most miserable conditions. Everything else is secondary. In order to do that, brains need to: (1) generate internal signals that register what our bodies need, such as food, rest, protection, sex, and shelter; (2) create a map of the world to point us where to go to satisfy those needs; (3) generate the necessary energy and actions to get us there; (4) warn us of dangers and opportunities along the way; and (5) adjust our actions based on the requirements of the moment.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Energy
  • Brain
  • Sex

• Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.

  

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz
  • Energy
  • Materials
  • Electricity