... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better… — Amar Bose Copy Share Image
“If non-linear leaps in intelligence and ability are possible, why haven't these effects been observed in our schools? I believe the answer… — John Mighton Copy Share Image
As the proportion of people reaching higher states of consciousness increases, this inertia will decrease, and at the same time a supportive… — Peter Russell 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
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
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
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
Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and… — William James 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 inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Punk is the voice that shouts the loudest from the silence of inertia. — Toyah Willcox 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
The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia. — Anonymous 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
At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia. — Donald James 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
Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it… — Anonymous 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
