Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere of action. — Swami Prabhavananda Copy Share Image
“First, never underestimate the power of inertia. Second, that power can be harnessed.” — Richard H. Thaler Copy Share Image
Punk is the voice that shouts the loudest from the silence of inertia. — Toyah Willcox Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Contrary to what I might like to think,my life is not guided by reason;it is ruled rather by the inertia of habitual… — Amitav Ghosh 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
Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart. — Gustave Flaubert 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
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
“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change.… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of… — Henry A. Kissinger 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
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
To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a… — Simone de Beauvoir 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
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate.… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“I remembered that once, as a child, I was filled with wonder, that I had marveled at tri-folded science projects, encyclopedias, and… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The thing about physicists is that they tend to think that everything is physics. I don't. That's not what music is to… — Vijay Iyer 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
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
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
“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
LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built… — Marilyn Ferguson 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
We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The human mind is scattered. We have become negligent about our distractions, inertia, confusion, doubt, fear, and anger. — Rajmani Tigunait Copy Share Image
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change. — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
