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It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

~ John Green

John Green Inertia Inspirational Leaving Nerdfighter

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

~ Will Rogers

Will Rogers Enterprise Humor Inertia Inspirational

The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.

~ Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Lynne Sharon Schwartz Bed Death Inactivity Inertia Sleep

The Law of Inertia states that a body in motion will remain in motion, and a body at rest will remain at rest. In life, nothing will happen when no one will make a move

~ Haveyouseenthisgirl

Haveyouseenthisgirl Haveyouseenthisgirl Inertia Life Lessons She Died

The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.

~ Tahir Shah

Tahir Shah Danger Inertia Jungle Time Village

If non-linear leaps in intelligence and ability are possible, why haven't these effects been observed in our schools? I believe the answer lies in the profound inertia of human thought: when an entire society believes something is impossible, it suppresses, by its very way of life, the evidence that would contradict that belief.

~ John Mighton

John Mighton Belief Inertia Science Society

The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.

~ Pam Houston

Pam Houston Change Fear Growth Inertia Self Invention

I remembered that once, as a child, I was filled with wonder, that I had marveled at tri-folded science projects, encyclopedias, and road atlases. I left much of that wonder somewhere between Mrs.Wheeler's class and Mondawmin Mall, somewhere between the schools and the streets. Now I had the privilege of welcoming it back like a long-lost friend, though our reunion was laced with grief; I mourned over all the years that were lost. The mourning continues. Even today, from time to time, I find myself on beaches watching six-year-olds learn to surf, or at colleges listening to sophomores slip from English to Italian, or at cafés seeing young poets flip though 'The Waste Land,' or listening to the radio where economists explain economic things that I could've explored in my lost years, mourning, hoping that I and all my wonder, my long-lost friend, had not yet run out of time, though I know that we all run out of time, and some of us run out of it faster.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates Inertia Meaning Mortality Mourning Purpose Regret Wasted Time

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Aspiration Inertia Motivation

Change has to be hard because you're fighting against inertia.

~ James Thornton

James Thornton Change Growth Healing Inertia Introspection Momentum Transformation

Mostly, what people mean by love is laziness.

~ Amanda Craig

Amanda Craig Disillusionment Inertia Laziness Lazy Love Marriage Romance

Young adults rebel against the pre-invented/ packaged world, but sooner or later they stop and they also become proponents of the tried and true.

~ Lukasz Laniecki

Lukasz Laniecki Human Behaviour Inertia Life Society Young Adults

Most of us probably fall several times a day into a fit somewhat like this: The eyes are fixed on vacancy, the sounds of the world melt into a confused unity, the attention is dispersed so that the whole body is felt, as it were, at once, and the foreground of consciousness is filled, if by anything, by a sort of solemn sense of surrender to the empty passing of time. In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who has spoken to us, trying to make the next step in our reasoning. But somehow we cannot start; the pensée de derrière la tête [thought at the back of the head] fails to pierce the shell of lethargy that wraps our state about. Every moment we expect the shell to break, for we know no reason why it should continue. But it does continue, pulse after pulse, and we float with it, until—also without reason that we can discover—an energy is given, something—we know not what—enables us to gather ourselves together, we wink our eyes, we shake our head, the background ideas become effective, and the wheels of life go round again.

~ William James

William James Inertia Lethargy Psychology

When we do something, we may not think about why we are doing what we are doing, says Oehler, for then it would suddenly be totally impossible for us to do anything.

~ Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard Acting Inertia Living Paralysis Reason

You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. Because doing anything results in...it's actually kind of tragic because you sacrifice how gorgeous and perfect it is in your head for what it really is. And there were a couple of years where I really struggled with that.

~ David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace Beauty Creativity Fear Idealism Idealists Ideals Inertia Infp Perfection Perfection And Confusion Perfectionism Perfectionists Writers Block

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 or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started.

~ J.d. Salinger

J.d. Salinger Darkness Depression Despair Inertia

In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.

~ George Eliot

George Eliot Anxiety Depression Inaction Inertia Insomnia

Very often inertia, selfishness, and vanity play the greatest role in our trust in others; inertia when we prefer to trust somebody else, in order not to investigate, be vigilant, or act ourselves; selfishness when the desire to speak about our own affairs tempts us to confide in someone else; vanity when it concers something that we are proud of.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Inertia Selfishness Trust Vanity

Sadness is the ambrosia of all art.

~ Frances Fong

Frances Fong Despair Disgust Inertia Isolation Poetry Sadness

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

Marcel Proust Imagination Inertia Introspection

Human inertia induces us to believe that our lives will never change unless we relocate.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Kilroy J. Oldster Change Quotes Change Your Life Changing Inertia Moving Relocate Relocating Relocation Travel Travel Quotes Travel Writing Traveling

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

~ Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno Evil Inertia Morality Triviality

The principle of vis inertiae (...) seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more true in the former, that a large body is with more difficulty set in motion than a smaller one, and that its subsequent momentum is commensurate with this difficulty, than it is, in the latter, that intellects of the vaster capacity, while more forcible, more constant, and more eventful in their movements than those of inferior grade, are yet the less readily moved, and more embarrassed, and full of hesitation in the first few steps of their progress

~ Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe Inertia Intellect Mind Power

He saw something more in those eyes. The emotion wasn't nakedly apparent, but Mr. Cawley was a professional at reading the subtleties of people. The elderly and wildly successful credit card magnate believed that certain human frailties could actually help fuel success. Insecurity drove billionaire entrepreneurs. Emotional instability made for superb art. The need for attention built great political leaders. But anger, in his experience, led only to inertia.

~ Jeff Hobbs

Jeff Hobbs Anger Emotional Instability Human Frailties Inertia Need For Attention

Nothing happens until something moves.

~ Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Inertia Physics Universe

She could not picture it. Herself riding on the subway or streetcar, caring for new horses, talking to new people, living among hordes of people every day who were not Clark.A life, a place, chosen for that specific reason––that it would not contain

~ Alice Munro

Alice Munro Abusive Relationships Inertia Regret

But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.

~ William Faulkner

William Faulkner Curiosity Fatalism Inertia Joe Christmas Light In August Pessimism

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.

~ Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy Amelioration Change Inertia Influence Willpower

Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.

~ Max Mckeown

Max Mckeown Change Improvement Inertia Leadership Strategy

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

~ Og Mandino

Og Mandino Activism Inertia Iniative Mantra
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