The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
As each man's strength gives out, as it no longer responds to his will, the inertia of the whole gradually comes to… — Carl von Clausewitz 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 nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses,… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of… — Carol J. Adams 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
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
The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere of action. — Swami Prabhavananda 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
The city might be savage, stray dogs might share the streets with grimy urchins whose blank eyes reflected the knowledge that they… — Jeff VanderMeer 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
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
“Every thing was to take its natural course, however, neither impelled nor assisted.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She leaned forward and placed her chin on her fist. 'So. Can you tell me in a sentence or two how I… — Nury Vittachi 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
What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Young adults rebel against the pre-invented/ packaged world, but sooner or later they stop and they also become proponents of the tried… — Lukasz Laniecki 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
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition… Yet change is… — Laurie Beth Jones 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
“Most of us probably fall several times a day into a fit somewhat like this: The eyes are fixed on vacancy, the… — William James Copy Share Image
