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“Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.”

Years Mind Humans Spirit Dies Energy My Own Ignorance Regret Noble Liberation Human Mind Dedicated Inertia

Author:Maya Angelou

“We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable. You are not running from anything. You can have a sense of artistic security. If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.”

Ifs Writing Looks Self Running Hate Voice Security Critics Valuable Artistic Insecurity Not Afraid Stable Garbage Inertia Self Hate Compost

Author:Natalie Goldberg

“Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.”

Common Tragic Inertia

Book:The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams

Source: The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams

“Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change.”

Ifs Body Healing Movement Disease Inertia Bodies In Motion

Author:Gabrielle Roth

“The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.”

Opportunity Customers Great Things Inertia

Book:Riches Within Your Reach

Source: Riches Within Your Reach

“How many have gone? How many more to go? The Admiralty is fast asleep and lethargy & inertia are the order of the day. However everybody seems delighted - so there is nothing to be said. No plans, no enterprise, no struggle to aid the general cause. Just sit still on the spacious throne and snooze.”

World Said Stills War Seems Order Causes Struggle Gone Plans Aids War Of The Worlds Enterprise Thrones Delighted Inertia Lethargy World War One

Author:Winston Churchill

“The core of a scientific lifestyle is to change your mind when faced with information that disagrees with your views, avoiding intellectual inertia, yet many of us praise leaders who stubbornly stick to their views as "strong."”

Mind Strong Views Leader Information Intellectual Praise Sticks Core Lifestyle Disagree Avoiding Relatable Inertia Changing Your Mind

Author:Max Tegmark

“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.”

People Thinking Real Matter Reason Seems Sound Criticism Critics Skepticism Inertia

Author:K. Eric Drexler

“The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia. Luckily the inconsequent life is not the only alternative; for caprice is as ruinous as routine. Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.”

Ifs Way Writing Firsts Age Lasts Life Is Process Hours Alive Habit Old Age Producers Alternatives Routine Cowardice Trails Inclination Inertia Ruts Incessantly Carelessness Caprice

Author:Edith Wharton

“As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor”

Problem Growing Week Technique Favors Merit Problem Solving Inertia

Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

“The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.”

Mind Easy Imagination Climbs Urges Introspection Slides Inertia Slopes Steep

Book:Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained

Source: Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained

“Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.”

Decision Our Lives Percent Engines Laziness Twins Inertia Life Decision

Book:The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment

Source: The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment

“Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.”

Way Trying Years Virtue Regret Useless Live Your Life Inertia Timidity

Author:Maya Angelou

“... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.”

Get Up Steam Inertia

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.”

Loses Common Enemy Devil Inertia Common Enemy

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.”

Way Age Earth Youth Activity Dignity Seasons Aging Cease Pushing Gravity Honorable Threshold Inertia Senility

Book:Complete Letters of Mark Twain

Source: Complete Letters of Mark Twain

“The first step is the hardest.”

Firsts Motivation Steps Hardest First Steps Inertia

Author:Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

“He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.”

Men May Hands Asks Fate Events He Man Thousand Lays Fortune Curiosity Apathy Prophecy Inertia Submissive Forfeit Dexterity Fortune Teller

Book:Selected Writings: 1913-1926

Source: Selected Writings: 1913-1926

“It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.”

Source: Anatomy of Criticism

“The only menace is inertia.”

Laziness Menace Inertia

Author:Saint-John Perse

“We'll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can think of a plausible, or even implausible, reason to discount environmental warnings, we will.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Reason Order Powerful Attitude Environmental Lifestyle Warning Inertia Plausible Discounts

Author:Bill McKibben

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