#inert

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to - act as if it were impossible to fail. ↗

— Dorothea Brande

#break #fail #frustration #impossible #inertia

The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#friendship #heart #home #inert #joys

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

— Alexis Carrel

#inertia #leaps #life #like #rock

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#environment #everyday #furniture #given #human

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

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. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#agreeable #allow #beach #does #eliminating

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#descends #dull #earth #genius #inert

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

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#day #dialogue #diary #finds #his

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. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#fear #had #induce #inertia #love