#inertia

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

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

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

— Jane Austen

#nature

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

Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy. ↗

— Max McKeown

#improvement #inertia #leadership #strategy #age

Nothing happens until something moves. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#physics #universe #nothing

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#genius #humanity #inertia #learn #which

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