“ You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement. ”
- Ben Stein- Copy
- 515
“ The great thing is the start — to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer — and him for nothing. ”
- Robert Collier- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 1.2K
“ All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success. ”
- Dorothea Brande- Copy
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“ Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia. ”
- Alexis Carrel- Copy
- 107
“ What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change. ”
- Simon Travaglia- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action. ”
- Napoleon Hill- Copy
- 534
“ That's why many fail — because they don't get started — they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin. ”
- W. Clement Stone- Copy
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“ Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay. ”
- Arthur Kroker- Copy
- 492
“ We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action. ”
- Louis L’Amour- Copy
- 3.5K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.4K
“ So many fail because they don't get started — they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin. ”
- W. Clement Stone- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. ”
- Edward Dahlberg- Copy
- 3.6K
“ 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 of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable. You are not running from anything. You can have a sense of artistic security… ”
- Natalie Goldberg- Copy
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“ Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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“ What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say "I know" instead of "I am learning," and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 384
“ Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well-meaning assemblies soon cease to count… ”
- Sir Winston Churchill- Copy
- 3.6K
“ I'm interested in the capitalistic way of life, and the reason I like it better than anything else I've seen so far is because competition produces results. Every socialistic type of government where the State theoretically owns everything, and everybody does their little part to help the State, inevitably produces bad art, it produces social inertia, it produces really unhappy people, and it is more repressive than any other kind of government. ”
- Frank Zappa- Copy
- 3.8K
“ 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 say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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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 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 4K
“ I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 3K
“ 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 through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition. ”
- Northrop Frye- Copy
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