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• Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Law, History, Firsts

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• The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

  Mark Twain

  Logic, Tradition, Harder

  1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, ch.5.

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• I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.

  Maya Angelou

  Regret, Ignorance, Years

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• Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition... Yet change is life's only constant.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Comfort, Patterns, Firsts

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• Whatever blocks you encounter, you have learned that there is a way over, around or through them. It is not those obstacles that inhibit your progress but your confidence, and will to break the inertia of fear and doubt.

  Douglas Smith

  Block, Believe, Doubt

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• Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We must believe that we can make choices and that those choices can alter the future.

  Max McKeown

  Believe, Choices, Overcoming

  "Innovation and change" by Dominic Basulo, bigthink.com.

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• Silence is the language of inertia.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Silence, Language, Silence Is

  Margaret Heffernan (2011). “Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Commitment, People, Together

  Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.212, Penn State Press

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• It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that clutter the minds of men and mould them into the mimicry of living ways.

  Lawren Harris

  Courage, Men, Mind

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• The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Opposites, Perfect, Bed

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2009). “Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir”, p.27, Counterpoint

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• The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

  Walt Whitman

  Individuality, Conformity, Institutions

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• A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Universe

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.

  Napoleon Hill

  Common, Tragic

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.86, Penguin

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• The only menace is inertia.

  Saint-John Perse

  Laziness, Menace

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• Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.

  Deepak Chopra

  Change, Comforting, High Standards

  "Superpower, Real and Unreal" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2005.

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• Mental inertia is death.

  Timothy Thomas Fortune

  Timothy Thomas Fortune (2008). “T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928”

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• Depression is inertia.

  Wayne Dyer

  Depression

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• You might find it necessary to 'snap' out of your mental inertia, moving slowly at first, then increasing your speed, until you gain complete control over your will. Be persistent no matter how slowly you may, at first, have to move. With persistence will come success.

  Napoleon Hill

  Moving, Positive Thinking, Persistence

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.143, Penguin

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• Inertia is depression's best friend. There's always a hump to get over before you can actually change. So pushing yourself over the hump is like opening a door to a new brain pattern.

  Deepak Chopra

  Doors, Brain, Patterns

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• People naturally tend toward inertia. That's why self improvement is such a struggle. But that's also why adversity lies at the heart of every success. The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.

  John C. Maxwell

  Lying, Struggle, Heart

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You”, p.264, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There can be no doubt about this. It even held true for the soldiers involved in the Kosovo War. For the soldiers stayed mostly in their barracks! In this way, polar inertia has truly become a mass phenomenon. And not only for the TV audiences watching the war at home but also for the army that watches the battle from the barracks.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Home, Army

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation.

  Justina Chen

  Broken, Accepting What Is, Complaining

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• The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire to install the device is weak. Human inertia is the problem, not invention. Something in man makes him resist change.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, People, Desire

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• The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.

  James Lovelock

  Meaningful, Humans, Huge

  Interview with The Guardian, March 29, 2010.

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• The thing about physicists is that they tend to think that everything is physics. I don't. That's not what music is to me. You can explain aspects of it in physical terms, including the physics of anatomy: how our bodies move, the torsional moment of inertia, the way you move your body to a beat, the inherent periodicities of the heartbeat, the gait. That's physics, too, I guess - maybe they'd call it biophysics.

  Vijay Iyer

  Moving, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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