#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. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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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

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#change #inertia #influence #willpower #change