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Letter "I" » inertia
«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.»
Author: Natalie Goldberg
| Keywords:
artistic, blooms, compost, garbage, inertia, insecurities, in truth, stable, voices
«The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Teenage,
Youth
| Keywords:
accused, exaggerating, immovability, impression, inertia, selfish, troubles
«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.»
«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.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| Keywords:
agreeable, beach, Eliminating, enforces, highly, inertia, neatly, overly, permits, physical world
«So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.»
Author: W. Clement Stone
(Author, Founder)
| About:
Beginning,
Failure
| Keywords:
get started, inertia
«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.»
Author: W. Clement Stone
(Author, Founder)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
acted, at rest, external, force of law, inertia, motion, natural law, straight line, uniform
«The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.»
«There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our stupidity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.»
«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.»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
amelioration, circumscribed, circumscribes, inertia, league together, new line, novelties, striking
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