The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love 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 towards success.
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The tendency to believe that things never change, the inertia of daily existence, is a staple of living. It has always been a delusion.
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Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority in the minds of many American editors and publishers.
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So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
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The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.
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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.
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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia
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The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.
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A lot of people are overpaying simply because of inertia.
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In view of the compelling case for urgent action to reduce carbon emissions, we are concerned there may be a degree of institutional inertia within the Treasury in the face of the scientific evidence on climate change.
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There is a certain amount of inertia to some of these commissions,.. A sense that it is 'business as usual,' and what went before is what we do now.
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Historically, you have lot of great content minds at Disney and Viacom and all the media conglomerates. But there's also been a big hesitation to try new things, and there's been a lot of inertia at the big media companies. One thing I don't think anyone has accused Steve Jobs of is inertia.
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[Still, to lure people into the program will require some ingenuity. ] There's a lot of inertia built into paying bills,.. If you don't provide the customer with more things of interest, they're not going to come online just to save you money.
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I think there will come a day when people will purchase drivers by ball performance and not the hype or numbers written on the club. Driver true-loft performance is a synergy of factors. Only the ball flight can tell you the true dynamic loft -- and that is a mixed function of measured loft, face angle, center of gravity, moment of inertia top to bottom and face roll.
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It's like making figures out of balloons. You can fill a balloon with air and shape it to be a pretzel, a donut or a hot dog. Each will have a different moment of inertia and a different center of gravity. By changing the shape of the balloon, you change the physical properties of the balloon.
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I don't think it's part of any vast sexist conspiracy I just think it's inertia.
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We are witnessing some inertia that is impeding inflation to decline faster. That said, the central bank wouldn't have to quicken the drop in rates.
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Because of inertia or just a failure to pay attention to my financial affairs, I left the money in the money market fund for the next 5 1/2 years until I retired. During those years, the money market fund earned a paltry average of 4.6 percent a year, while the Windsor Fund turned in an annualized gain of 18 percent a year.
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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.
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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.
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Sadness is the ambrosia of all art.
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If non-linear leaps in intelligence and ability are possible, why haven't these effects been observed in our schools? I believe the answer lies in the profound inertia of human thought: when an entire society believes something is impossible, it suppresses, by its very way of life, the evidence that would contradict that belief.
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Une once d'inertie pèse plus qu'un boisseau de sagesse(La conversation? Innsbruck)
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