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The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.
Deepak Chopra
Key
Mind
Free
Wrong Thing
Live
Right Thing
Habit
Environment
Wrong
Instead
Feels
Inertia
Real
Being
Where
The Right Thing
Choose
Compelled
Right
Thing
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
Elbert Hubbard
Love
Hate
Progress
Men
Oppose
Inertia
Reason
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
Henri Bergson
Humanity
Genius
Learn
Forces
Inertia
Which
I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.
James Lovelock
You
Change
Clever
Situation
Think
Enough
Complex
Evolved
Point
Inertia
Climate
Climate Change
Huge
Handle
Where
Anything
Meaningful
Really
Humans
In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.
Michael Steinhardt
Ignorance
People
Own
Heritage
Jewish People
Our
Threat
Force
Forces
Greatest
Inertia
Greatest Threat
North
North America
America
Apathy
Internal
External
Jewish
Entrepreneurs are constantly developing new technologies and services. But too often, they're unable to bring them quickly to market for consumers because regulatory inertia stands in the way. Unfortunately, the FCC can suffer from this government-wide problem.
Ajit Pai
Problem
Too
Market
Way
Unable
Constantly
Entrepreneurs
Consumers
Developing
New
Because
Inertia
Quickly
New Technologies
Often
Unfortunately
Them
Regulatory
Stands
Suffer
Services
Technologies
Bring
Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to.
Andrew Mason
You
Culture
Difficult
Once
Would
Would-Be
Something
Inertia
Reverse
Very
Brand
Wanted
Your
Deeply
So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Ben Stein
Overcome
Fail
Because
Inertia
Go
Begin
Get
Many
Started
If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.
Daley Thompson
Life
Work
You
Sports
People
Work Hard
Win
Real Life
Other
Way
Worst
Worst Thing
About
Guy
Tend
Generally
Inertia
Real
Get
Stop
Being
Where
Achieving
Either
Prejudice
Your
Hard
Games
Compared
Deserve
Thing
Things
Played
Fastest
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
Love
Fear
Men
Young
Virtue
Machine
Machines
Had
Induce
Inertia
Pernicious
Effect
Pity
Which
Young Men
Used
Near
Technology has made it easier for different firms to coordinate their activities with one another, and they don't have to be part of one company. They can get the benefits of scale without the inertia of scale.
Erik Brynjolfsson
Technology
Benefits
Made
Easier
Scale
Part
Another
Without
Inertia
Get
Different
Company
Activities
Coordinate
As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.
Jordan Peterson
Nature
Laziness
Think
Our
Those
About
Betrayal
Atrocity
Inertia
Am
Human
Transcend
Human Beings
Straight
Capacity
Pessimistic
Beings
Things
Set
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
People
Matter
Few
Thinking
Else
Criticisms
Critics
Some
Seems
Something
Something Else
Having
More
Like
Inertia
Sound
Real
Encountered
Lot
Very
Than
Real Reason
Substantive
Skepticism
Reason
Who
I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
Karl Schroeder
Time
Progress
Remember
Political
Moon
Paradigm
Possible
Would
Both
Civilization
Knew
Fail
True
Failed
Practical
Inertia
Due
Effort
Bureaucratic
Which
Apathy
Realize
Apollo
Creating
Measured
The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.
Kevin Kelly
Nature
Innovation
Will
Become
Enough
System
Arise
Without
Inertia
Overwhelmed
Fringe
Afford
Establish
Being
Where
Usefulness
Orthodox
Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.
Maurice Strong
Political
Powerful
Powerful Force
Force
Inertia
Affairs
Human
Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We must believe that we can make choices and that those choices can alter the future.
Max McKeown
Future
Change
Believe
Guiding
Those
Must
Overcoming
Alter
Make
Inertia
Happened
Much
Choices
Tweaking
Many Americans say they want to be organ donors, but they just don't get around to acting on their intentions. Helping these potential good Samaritans overcome their inertia could prolong thousands of lives a year.
Richard Thaler
Good
Overcome
Year
Organ
Say
Prolong
Thousands
Potential
Could
Around
Inertia
Get
American
Donors
Just
Intentions
Want
Acting
Helping
Many
Lives
If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.
Ron Fournier
History
Victory
Guide
Scandal
Obama
Faces
He
Prospect
Term
Inertia
Dogged
Means
Second
Second Term
Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
People
Seen
Before
Out
Must
About
Something
Never
Excited
Leaders
Does
Inertia
Exist
Wake
Get
The longer you're stuck in a position that doesn't truly challenge you, the less likely you'll be able to leave it. Inertia, in fact, is one of my worst fears.
Ryan Holmes
You
Challenge
Fears
Worst
Able
Fact
Stuck
Longer
Likely
Inertia
Leave
Truly
In Fact
Less
Position
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
Change
Personality
Fear
Think
Changes
Ourselves
Rapid
Something
Uncontrollable
Because
Inertia
Form
Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.
Todd Gitlin
Everyday
Furniture
Given
Environment
Makes
Inertia
Were
Human
Appear
Like Disneyland, luxury retailers have long had to figure out how to overcome customers' natural inertia. Unlike less pricey stores, they tend not to attract idle browsers who make impulse purchases.
Virginia Postrel
Natural
Overcome
Luxury
Long
Unlike
Out
Purchases
Tend
Had
Like
Attract
Make
Inertia
Idle
How
Impulse
Stores
Customers
Disneyland
Figure
Less
Who
The inertia that you get from partying pays back energy to keep you partying. So, if I get tired, I just party some more, and then I feel better.
Andrew W.K.
Tired
You
Better
Party
Energy
Back
I Feel
Some
More
Feel
Partying
Inertia
Get
Just
Then
Pays
Keep
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