Thermostat Quotes

[Even the mechanism can be endowed with an image. Thus] the thermostat has an image of the outside world in the shape of information regarding its temperature. It has also a value system in the sense of the ideal temperature at which it is set. Its behavior is directed towards the receipt of information which will bring its image and its value systems together. (Kenneth Boulding)
The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change. View quote
T. Harv Eker
But then, that was the trouble with relationships generally. They had their own temperature and there was no thermostat. View quote
Nick Hornby
We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat. View quote
Terence McKenna
I feel like I can control my own body as if I have a thermostat that I can adjust when I need to. View quote
Wim Hof
There is a sense in which the United States Ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat, rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say. View quote
Andrew Young
There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer will tell you what the temperature is. A thermostat will not only tell you what the temperature is, but it'll move you to the temperature you need to get to. View quote
Kevin McCarthy
Turning the thermostat down is something that I do pretty reluctantly. I like to be able to walk around in whatever I fancy at home. View quote
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place. View quote
Susie Orbach
Man is now in charge of the thermostat for the globe. View quote
Tom Udall
Nest Thermostat owners like the carbon monoxide link. If Nest Protect's carbon monoxide alarm goes off, the Nest Thermostat automatically turns off the gas furnace. (Tony Fadell)
Consider a clock thermostat, and set it so that you're not using energy when you don't need it, when you're out of your house. View quote
Al Gore
You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it. View quote
Cornel West