Best Inertia Sayings
124 Inertia quotes by 107 unique authors
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Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was…
— Maya Angelou
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We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out…
— Natalie Goldberg
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Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.
— Napoleon Hill
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Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change.
— Gabrielle Roth
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How many have gone? How many more to go? The Admiralty is fast asleep and lethargy & inertia are the order of the day. However…
— Winston Churchill
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The core of a scientific lifestyle is to change your mind when faced with information that disagrees with your views, avoiding intellectual inertia, yet many…
— Max Tegmark
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I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it…
— K. Eric Drexler
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The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day…
— Edith Wharton
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As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.
— Marcel Proust
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Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
— A. J. Jacobs
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Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.
— Maya Angelou
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... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be…
— Mark Twain
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He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may…
— Walter Benjamin
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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling…
— Northrop Frye
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The only menace is inertia.
— Saint-John Perse
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We'll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can think of a…
— Bill McKibben
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If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you…
— Daley Thompson
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LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents.…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it…
— Isaac Newton
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Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia.
— Mary Parker Follett
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It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that clutter the minds…
— Lawren Harris
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Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic deficit of inertia,…
— John F. Kennedy
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