#inert

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

It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. ↗

— John Green

#inspirational #leaving #nerdfighter #inspirational

At seventeen I'm waiting for my life to actually begin. I'm afraid I'll wake up tomorrow eighty years old and I WILL STILL BE WAITING. ↗

— Frank Warren

#initiative #life

Those whom even love cannot shake from their habitual aversion to risk and inertia are those who are truly unredeemable. ↗

— Cristina Nehring

#love #risk-aversion #unredeemable #love

Nothing happens until something moves. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#physics #universe #nothing

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil. ↗

— Theodor W. Adorno

#inertia #morality #triviality #metaphysics

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person. ↗

— Og Mandino

#inertia #iniative #mantra #activism

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

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#cases #commission #congress #extreme #hearings