Electric Current Quotes

Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed.

W. Clement Stone

Motivational, Enthusiasm, Speed

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... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.

Louis Pasteur

Mind, Favors, Chance

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One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend, is not the same thing as the current of conduction, but that the time-variation of the electric displacement must [also] be taken into account.

James Clerk Maxwell

Taken, Science, Doctrine

James Clerk Maxwell (1954). “A treatise on electricity and magnetism”, Dover Pubns

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The sensations of dismemberment flow through the forceps like an electric current.

Warren Hern

Abortion, Flow, Currents

Speech at the Associations of Planned Parenthood Physicians meeting, San Diego, October 26, 1978.

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I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear.

Nikola Tesla

Lamps, Brightness, Disappear

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He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Joy, Cooking, Energy

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This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand.

Prince Charles

Appreciation, Hands, Special

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Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current.

Camille Flammarion

Brain, Lightning, Currents

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Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in conductors, which all previous electricians had only succeeded in loosely binding together qualitatively under some rather vague statements. Even as late as 20 years ago, "quantity" and "tension" were much used by men who did not fully appreciate Ohm's law.

Oliver Heaviside

Science, Men, Order

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Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching him as a drowning woman might clutch another person to save her life. Don't don't don't don't leave me. DON'T LEAVE ME. As in animal copulation the frenzy is to be locked together not out of sentiment or choice but physical compulsion. As if bolts of electric current ran through both their bodies and would only release them from each other when it ceased.

Joyce Carol Oates

Sex, Animal, Men

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The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current.

Henry Giroux

Running, Culture, Currents

"Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism". Book by Henry Giroux, www.alternet.org. 2011.

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Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.

B. C. Forbes

Progress, Enthusiasm, Speed

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Conserve the vital energy, follow a balanced diet, and always smile and be happy. He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God. If you feel that you can't smile, stand before a mirror and with your fingers pull your mouth into a smile. It is that important!

Paramahansa Yogananda

Mirrors, Joy, Important

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Magnetic current is the same as electric current. Current is [actually] the wrong expression. Really it is not one current, they are two currents, one current is composed of North Pole individual magnets in concentrated streams and the other is composed of South Pole individual magnets in concentrated streams, and they are are running one stream against the other stream in whirling, screwlike fashion, and with high speed.

Edward Leedskalnin

Running, Fashion, Expression

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If I apply a magnetic pulse on salt water - that's your brains by the way - it'll generate electric currents, and the electric current in the brain can erase a migraine headache.

Robert Fischell

Water, Brain, Pulse

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If we think we are tired or ill, it is only because we have done something to unbalance the bodily conductivity of the universal electric current which motivates it.

Walter Russell

Tired, Thinking, Sick

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And our lips. There isn't enough skin, enough spit, enough time, for the lost years that our lips are trying to make up for as they find each other. We kiss. The electric current switches to high. The lights throughout all of Brooklyn must be surging.

Gayle Forman

Kissing, Light, Years

Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.118, Penguin

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How I waited for you! How I longed for you! he stammered. "I thought of you all the time. I saw you all the time. Your smile was everywhere." He lowered his voice and added, "Sometimes when people were talking commonplaces and your name happened to be mentioned, It would go through my heart like an electric current.

Henri Barbusse

Heart, Talking, Names

Henri Barbusse (2009). “The Inferno”, p.213, The Floating Press

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All other great men are valued for their lives; He, above all, for His death, around which mercy and truth, righteousness and peace, God and man are reconciled; for the cross is the magnet which sends the electric current through the telegraph between earth and heaven, and makes both Testaments thrill, through the ages of the past and future, with living, harmonious, and saving truth.

Edward Thomson

Past, Men, Heaven

Edward Thomson (1872). “Evidences of Revealed Religion”, p.304

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If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current to flow. Satan is master of ceremonies, though he be apparently non-existent.

F. Huegel

Self, Temptation, Lines

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To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.

Johannes Peter Muller

Expression, Light, Nerves

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In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two poles of a Volta pile. On his table was a magnetized needle on its pivot, and he suddenly saw (by chance you will say, but chance only favours the mind which is prepared) the needle move and take up a position quite different from the one assigned to it by terrestrial magnetism. A wire carrying an electric current deviates a magnetized needle from its position. That, gentlemen, was the birth of the modern telegraph.

Louis Pasteur

Moving, Memorable, Science

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My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.

Bill Walton

Running, Pain, Life Changing

"Bill Walton Is Talkin' With TJ". Interview with Tom James, www.nba.com.

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I dust [your photo] carefully every morning, for to do so gives me the pleasant feeling that I'm caressing you as in the old days. I even touch your nose with mine to recapture the electric current that used to flush through my blood whenever I did so.

Nelson Mandela

Morning, Dust, Blood

Nelson Mandela, Robin Malan (1997). “The Essential Nelson Mandela”, David Philip

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If your blood is formed from eating the foods I teach [fruits and green-leaf vegetables] your soul will shout for joy and triumph over all misery of life. For the first time you will feel a vibration of vitality through your body (like a slight electric current) that shakes you delightfully.

Arnold Ehret

Blood, Vegetables, Joy

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