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
Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We… — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of… — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
If we always take the path of least resistance, if we embrace inertia, if we never leap, if we never accept accountability… — Allison Winn Scotch Copy Share Image
Adroit geo-strategists take new realities into account as they try to imagine how global politics will unfold. In the foreign policy business,… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
I don't think America needs 28,000 men on Okinawa. I don't think we need an army in Germany. What's it for, to… — Kevin Gutzman 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
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
“I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day,… — Og Mandino 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
An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one… — Alejandra Pizarnik Copy Share Image
Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder… — Walter Isaacson 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
The different policies reduce damages by only a modest amount. Indeed, one of the surprises is how little the policies affect the… — Henry Sylvester Jacoby Copy Share Image
“We know how ninety-nine percent of the universe works," he told Carter shortly after they met, "and that's the clockworks, that's what… — Glen David Gold Copy Share Image
“The principle of vis inertiae (...) seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more true in the former,… — Edgar Allan Poe 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
The idea of salvation through some one or some thing outside of ourselves came from love of inertia. We want God or… — Alice Moore Hubbard Copy Share Image
Galileo had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Spiritual movements are revolts of thought against inertia, of the few against the many; of those who because they are strong in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
The essence of religion is inertia; the essence of science is change. It is the function of the one to preserve, it… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
When you regularly take continuous action toward your most important goals, you activate the Momentum Principle of success. This principle says that… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
One curious result of this inertia, which deserves to rank among the fundamental 'laws' of nature, is that when a discovery has… — F. C. S. Schiller Copy Share Image
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
“His world had assumed the attribute of pure mass. He perceived himself in one mode only: that of an object subjected to… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Whatever blocks you encounter, you have learned that there is a way over, around or through them. It is not those obstacles… — Douglas Smith 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
“When describing me, Tracy often refers to a well-known concept of physics: 'inertia.' As Newton avers in his first law: 'An object… — Michael J Fox 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
Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel… — Anonymous 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
It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
