Inertia Quotes

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.

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 to success.

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.

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.

Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they`ve never seen before, something that does not yet exist.

I aimed it -- not quite as far right as the ball went -- but you want to shade it a little bit, just in case when it starts to lose its inertia, it`s going to break a little bit left, ... That`s what it did, fortunately.

A lot of people are overpaying simply because of inertia.

Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America`s newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority in the minds of many American editors and publishers.

So many fail because they don`t get started - they don`t go. They don`t overcome inertia. They don`t begin.