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Depression is inertia.
The only menace is inertia.
Inertia is the death of creativity
Silence is the language of inertia.
It takes forever if you go by inertia.
Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.
... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.
Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
Punk is the voice that shouts the loudest from the silence of inertia.
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.
The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.
A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.
Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third.
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.
Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.
Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.
So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
You can break through old limits, past inertia and fear, to... richness of choice, freedom, human closeness.
If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.
By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.
We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.
Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to.
Technology keeps progressing. Young people follow the curve. But as they get older, they get inertia, and they start deviating from that curve.
The inertia that you get from partying pays back energy to keep you partying. So, if I get tired, I just party some more, and then I feel better.
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.
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.
I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.
The longer you're stuck in a position that doesn't truly challenge you, the less likely you'll be able to leave it. Inertia, in fact, is one of my worst fears.
The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.
Instagram, Swiffer, and Nest had to compete with consumer habits and perceptions. Breakout products face competition from the formidable inertia powering the status quo.
If you want a robot to maneuver aggressively, it has to be small. As you scale things down, the 'moment of inertia' - the resistance to angular motion - drops dramatically.
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.
The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.
In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.
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.
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.
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.
Like Disneyland, luxury retailers have long had to figure out how to overcome customers' natural inertia. Unlike less pricey stores, they tend not to attract idle browsers who make impulse purchases.
I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.
The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.
Technology has made it easier for different firms to coordinate their activities with one another, and they don't have to be part of one company. They can get the benefits of scale without the inertia of scale.
Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We must believe that we can make choices and that those choices can alter the future.
Many Americans say they want to be organ donors, but they just don't get around to acting on their intentions. Helping these potential good Samaritans overcome their inertia could prolong thousands of lives a year.
Adroit geo-strategists take new realities into account as they try to imagine how global politics will unfold. In the foreign policy business, however, inertia is a powerful force and 'adroit' a little-known concept.
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.
As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.