Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.
Max McKeownTags: change strategy leadership inertia improvement
The principle of vis inertiae (...) seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more true in the former, that a large body is with more difficulty set in motion than a smaller one, and that its subsequent momentum is commensurate with this difficulty, than it is, in the latter, that intellects of the vaster capacity, while more forcible, more constant, and more eventful in their movements than those of inferior grade, are yet the less readily moved, and more embarrassed, and full of hesitation in the first few steps of their progress
Edgar Allan PoeTags: intellect inertia mind-power
Those whom even love cannot shake from their habitual aversion to risk and inertia are those who are truly unredeemable.
Cristina NehringTags: love inertia risk-aversion unredeemable
You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. Because doing anything results in...it's actually kind of tragic because you sacrifice how gorgeous and perfect it is in your head for what it really is. And there were a couple of years where I really struggled with that.
David Foster WallaceTags: fear beauty idealism creativity ideals writers-block perfection inertia perfectionism infp idealists perfection-and-confusion perfectionists
The Law of Inertia states that a body in motion will remain in motion, and a body at rest will remain at rest. In life, nothing will happen when no one will make a move
HaveYouSeenThisGirLTags: life-lessons inertia haveyouseenthisgirl she-died
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