#inertia

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

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

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