#inertia

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. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#also #believe #believed #big #big government

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#inertia #leaps #life #like #rock

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#faces #guide #history #inertia #means

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. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#culture #deeply #difficult #inertia #infused

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#inertia #love #men #oppose #progress

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. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#arise #become #being #being overwhelmed #enough

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

— Jane Austen

#nature

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

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

#inertia #motivation #love

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs. ↗