Nothing happens until something moves.
So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.
Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.
Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
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 reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
Some people, in working towards a goal, find themselves seized by inertia when it comes time for action. If this should happen to you, despite the small graduated steps, then it is time to re-examine your goal. Consider how important it actually is and then either discard the goal and replace it with more suitable one or continue the steps with a renewed sense of the value of achieving it.
I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic.
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.
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.
The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.
There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.
... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.
My opinion about Miller's experiments is the following. ... Should the positive result be confirmed, then the special theory of relativity and with it the general theory of relativity, in its current form, would be invalid. Experimentum summus judex. Only the equivalence of inertia and gravitation would remain, however, they would have to lead to a significantly different theory.
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.
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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.
The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.
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.
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change.
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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.
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