Spiritual movements are revolts of thought against inertia, of the few against the many; of those who because they are strong in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Galileo had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
How many have gone? How many more to go? The Admiralty is fast asleep and lethargy & inertia are the order of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Like Disneyland, luxury retailers have long had to figure out how to overcome customers' natural inertia. Unlike less pricey stores, they tend… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“When describing me, Tracy often refers to a well-known concept of physics: 'inertia.' As Newton avers in his first law: 'An object… — Michael J Fox Copy Share Image
The different policies reduce damages by only a modest amount. Indeed, one of the surprises is how little the policies affect the… — Henry Sylvester Jacoby Copy Share Image
“We know how ninety-nine percent of the universe works," he told Carter shortly after they met, "and that's the clockworks, that's what… — Glen David Gold Copy Share Image
“The principle of vis inertiae (...) seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more true in the former,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
The core of a scientific lifestyle is to change your mind when faced with information that disagrees with your views, avoiding intellectual… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We… — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of… — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
If we always take the path of least resistance, if we embrace inertia, if we never leap, if we never accept accountability… — Allison Winn Scotch Copy Share Image
Being on a set where the director has lost control is just sickening. No one goes the extra mile, theres a lot… — Christine Vachon Copy Share Image
“People love each other for many reasons, not all of them good [...]. They love each other because it's easy. Or because… — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
We're used to institutional-maintenance Catholicism, in which the institution ticks along by its own inertia and people are "born" into the Church.… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Under a socialist mode of production all personal incentives which selfishness provides under capitalism are removed, and a premium is put upon… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
People naturally tend toward inertia. That's why self improvement is such a struggle. But that's also why adversity lies at the heart… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
Technology has made it easier for different firms to coordinate their activities with one another, and they don't have to be part… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
We'll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one… — Alejandra Pizarnik Copy Share Image
Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Americans, more than most people, believe that history is the result of individual decisions to implement conscious intentions. For Americans, more than… — George Will Copy Share Image
“I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image