(13 quotes found)
“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.”
“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
“Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia”
Alexis Carrel
“[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
“Don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.”
“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
“I don't think it's part of any vast sexist conspiracy — I just think it's inertia.”
Joe Kelly
“There's definitely going to be nervousness around the event and a kind of inertia. My wife has already asked me not to come into work that day.”
Ethan Harris
