“First, never underestimate the power of inertia. Second, that power can be harnessed.” — Richard H. Thaler Copy Share Image
The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere of action. — Swami Prabhavananda Copy Share Image
“But this inertia often causes you to use a tool because you know it, rather than because it’s the right tool.” — Anonymous 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
“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
Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year… — Milan Kundera 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
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
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
Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of… — Maya Angelou 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
Thank God for running. It is the ultimate detox for me, whether my poison is bubbles, a foul mood, or a bad… — Kristin Armstrong 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
“... now I heard in it this sense of propulsion toward a particular goal, like everything in life had buoyed him there.… — Stephanie Perkins 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 spirit in motion heals, expands, circles in and out of the body, moving through the layers of consciousness from inertia to… — Gabrielle Roth 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
“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
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
As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I guess I realize that I don't want to die. I don't want to live either, but-there really isn't anything in-between. Depression… — Elizabeth Wurtzel 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
“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
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought,… — Northrop Frye 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
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 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
The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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