“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
“[Her inertia did not sit well with some in her immediate circle. They accused Ms. Apple of being lazy, crazy and unproductive, she said.] It really hurt a couple of close relationships of mine, ... It infuriated me because they couldn't believe that when I'm sitting and thinking that's how I work.”
Fiona Apple
“Sometimes you have to pull the trigger, ... Sometimes it's best to sell it and not be trapped by inertia.”
Russ Kinnel
“You have a bit of inertia. You have a certain mentality that we have a deer in the headlights with the near-term earnings uncertainty versus the long-term prospects for economic recovery. So you have a market that's in a tug-of-war.”
Bryan Piskorowski
“There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct -- not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.”
Thomas Hardy
“So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.”
W. Clement Stone
“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.”
