#inertia

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All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.


Dorthea Brande


#act #break #command #face #fail

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

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.


Deepak Chopra


#choose #compelled #environment #feels #free

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.


Maurice Strong


#force #human #inertia #political #powerful

What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.


Simon Travaglia


#change #changes #fear #form #i

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

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


Alexis Carrel


#inertia #leaps #life #like #rock

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

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

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.


Ben Stein


#begin #fail #get #go #inertia