Engine Quotes

462 quotes by 400 authors

Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and… — Jo Brand
Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that… — William J. Clinton
James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the… — Jeremy Rifkin
The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable… — James Prescott Joule
You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is… — Charles Babbage
Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine. — Napoleon Hill
It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite… — Winston Churchill
We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far. — Michel de Montaigne
The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long… — Larry Page
Enthusiasm is the engine of success.. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What worries me though, is that after all those victories people don't see me as a human being anymore. I am not a machine, I… — Evgeni Plushenko
In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels,… — John Ruskin
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may… — Thomas Carlyle
The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and… — Thomas Jefferson
It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if it looks… — Richard Dawkins
Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes. — Don Tapscott
All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish,… — Seth Godin
We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
Ideas can be willed, and the imagination is their engine. — Theodore Levitt
Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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