Sadoway Quotes & Sayings

In a wristwatch, imagine the battery is in the strap and there's a medical sensor in there connected to the internet. If someone is monitoring that, they could phone up if the user has forgotten to take some medication. This could save hundreds of dollars in medical fees later. What's missing? It's a stable battery. — Donald Sadoway

Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyone with respect and dignity. This stops you from cynicism and negativity. End your day with that same attitude you started. Renew your contract with a day well completed. — Rick Pitino

Good is not always God's will, but God's will is always good. — Watchman Nee

If we're going to get this country out of its current energy situation, we can't just conserve our way out; we can't just drill our way out; we can't bomb our way out. We're going to do it the old-fashioned American way, we're going to invent our way out, working together. — Donald Sadoway

Ox," he said, a hint of his wolf poking through, eyes flashing. "Anything you'd like to tell me?" "No," I said quickly. "Absolutely not." "You sure about that?" he asked, his grip on my elbow tightening. I just barely managed to pull my arm free. "I'm hungry," I said, voice rough. "We should - " "Sure," he said. "Let's go." I blinked. He smiled at me. My heart stuttered a bit. The smile widened. No — T.J. Klune

Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self. — Rick Warren

How do we attack important problems? Pose the right question. — Donald Sadoway

I went to a great church here in L.A., gave my heart to the Lord and felt freedom from things I've carried throughout my life that I just thought, 'I don't have to carry them any more.' — Sheila E.

When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album. — John Fogerty

The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors. — Donald Sadoway

The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties. — Charles I Of England

Everyone worries, everyone feels at least a little bit doomed basically all the time, even the richest, most successful, most secure among us live in perpetually anxious states of barely hanging on — Ben Fountain

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you. — Judi Dench

You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it. — Dorothy L. Sayers

The students who work with me believe in science in service of society, not science in service of career building. — Donald Sadoway

Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk. — Donald Sadoway

People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull. — Donald Sadoway

In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential. — Donald Sadoway

Sadoway does more than entertain; he gives you a glimpse into the future of energy. — Jeffrey Kluger

We drove out along the coast road. There was the green of the headlands, the white, red-roofed villas, patches of forest, and the ocean very blue with the tide out and the water curling far out along the beach. We drove through Saint Jean de Luz and passed through villages farther down the coast. Back of the rolling country we were going through we saw the mountains we had come over from Pamplona. The road went on ahead. Bill looked at his watch. It was time for us to go back. He knocked on the glass and told the driver to turn around. The driver backed the car out into the grass to turn it. In back of us were the woods, below a stretch of meadow, then the sea. — Ernest Hemingway,

Tanner: My dear Tavy, your pious English habit of regarding the world as a moral gymnasium built expressly to strengthen your character in leads you to think about your own confounded principles when you should be thinking about other people's necessities. — George Bernard Shaw

With a giant battery, we'd be able to address the problem of intermittency that prevents wind and solar from contributing to the grid in the same way that coal and gas and nuclear do today. — Donald Sadoway

To make bread or love, to dig in the earth, to feed an animal or cook for a stranger - these activities require no extensive commentary, no lucid theology. All they require is someone willing to bend, reach, chop, stir. Most of these tasks are so full of pleasure that there is no need to complicate things by calling them holy. And yet these are the same activities that change lives, sometimes all at once and sometimes more slowly, the way dripping water changes stone. In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life. — Barbara Brown Taylor