#inertia

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin. ↗

— Ben Stein

#begin #fail #get #go #inertia

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. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#called #ecological #habits #i #inertia

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

— Will Rogers

#humor #inertia #inspirational #humor

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

#fear #growth #inertia #self-invention #change

Every thing was to take its natural course, however, neither impelled nor assisted. ↗

— Jane Austen

#nature

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

#inertia #science #society #intelligence

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. ↗

— Dorthea Brande

#act #break #command #face #fail

I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#critics #else #encountered #few #having

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. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#choose #compelled #environment #feels #free

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. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#before #does #excited #exist #get