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
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
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
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
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
Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs… — John Kenneth Galbraith 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
Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions… — John Dewey 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
“Take the case (to use an easy example) of a river, carrying boats and communicating to them its own velocity, yet limited… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moreover, I would like to say that the sort of polar inertia we witnessed in the Kosovo War, the polar inertia involving… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people,… — Italo Calvino 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
“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
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
Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change. — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
“The laws of physics that deal with inertia also apply to humans, such that situations tend to remain the same over time.” — Del Suggs Copy Share Image
As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
If you want a robot to maneuver aggressively, it has to be small. As you scale things down, the 'moment of inertia'… — Vijay Kumar Copy Share Image
“Loss aversion helps produce inertia, meaning a strong desire to stick with your current holdings.” — Richard H. Thaler 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
“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
Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
We must renew democracy itself. We have to fight cynicism and inertia and restore faith in the advancement of our country. — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
“Sin and the effects of sin are similar to the laws of inertia: a person (or object) in motion will continue on… — Lindsey A. Holcomb Copy Share Image
“At times, staying in the same functional area and in the same organization creates inertia and limits opportunity to expand.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“To be reborned many times over, you must unleash the power of inertia. But must you go out every time and reach… — C.C. Wyatt Copy Share Image
