Top Inertia Quotes
Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.
Michael Burgess
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
Henri Bergson
We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.
Maurice Strong
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
What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.
Simon Travaglia
Dorthea Brande 
Ben Stein 
Elbert Hubbard 
Alexis Carrel 
John Kenneth Galbraith All Inertia Quotes
Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.
Michael Burgess 
60% of people like this quote
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
Henri Bergson
60% of people like this quote
We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.
Maurice Strong
59% of people like this quote
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
55% of people like this quote
What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.
Simon Travaglia
53% of people like this quote
Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.
Maurice Strong
52% of people like this quote
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to - act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande
51% of people like this quote
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.
K. Eric Drexler
50% of people like this quote
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
Edward Dahlberg
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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
Alexis Carrel
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