Punk is the voice that shouts the loudest from the silence of inertia. — Toyah Willcox Copy Share Image
“First, never underestimate the power of inertia. Second, that power can be harnessed.” — Richard H. Thaler Copy Share Image
“I do not suffer from ignorance where exercise is related. I suffer from inertia.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We stayed on at the Institute [Chicago called the School of Design] because that was - I don't know, you start at… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The more we study nature the grander does she appear. Science, by penetrating her secrets, often shows us the hidden and imposing… — Felix Archimede Pouchet Copy Share Image
The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
“Those whom even love cannot shake from their habitual aversion to risk and inertia are those who are truly unredeemable.” — Cristina Nehring Copy Share Image
“... now I heard in it this sense of propulsion toward a particular goal, like everything in life had buoyed him there.… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
The spirit in motion heals, expands, circles in and out of the body, moving through the layers of consciousness from inertia to… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode,… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
Business leaders must not cling to old ways of doing business, or allow inertia or complacency to prevent them from making the… — Patricia Hewitt Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt about this. It even held true for the soldiers involved in the Kosovo War. For the soldiers… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
“Inertia. Guy’s law of enchantment: “People at rest will remain at rest, and people in motion will keep moving in the same… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
All nature works, and then rests; works and rests. I caught its rhythm and worked and rested with it. When I felt… — Elizabeth Towne Copy Share Image
Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of inertia, are saying nowadays that it is impossible, that… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Even if I could write the book I want to write nobody would take it - I know my compatriots only too… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. — John Green Copy Share Image
Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia… — Andrew Mason Copy Share Image
Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can inert and study your navel and gradually you'll fall off the chair. I… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image