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Inertia is a big factor, sometimes the gift card is for a store that you don’t particularly like or it’s not convenient to go there. – Ted Rossman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There's a really profound fundamental thing that happens in the brain of people like dancers or skaters over lots and lots of practice. And that's basically a change in the way the brain is processing information, when you spin around, you're activating the semicircular canals, rotation sensors. They're filled with fluid and they're sensing your rotation. But when you stop, the fluid has inertia and it tends to continue to move. They actually get a false sensation of movement. – Kathleen Cullen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There is an inertia about new technologies, and the treatment for fall armyworm has the awful combination of being both costly and difficult. – Paul Voutier	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
These (programs) are often mandated on a national level, but out in the townships they arent enforced, because of inertia. – Roberto Valdovinos	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
This creates an environment where inertia is the norm, which allows automakers which may otherwise disappear to continue to survive for decades. – James Chao	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The transition away from being a rentier state is not a comfortable one, they’re trying. But the fundamental question is: will their trying bear enough fruit before the downside of the current system hits? Or is it a day late and a dollar short? Will the forces of change ultimately be enough to overcome the inertia of the current system? I don’t know. – David Chaudron	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's more difficult to awaken from [this stage] of sleep than [others], whenever you wake up from a deeper stage of sleep, you can experience sleep inertia, which is a feeling of disorientation. – Natalie Dautovich	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Even if we put aside the Fed, we still have this political uncertainty and we are seeing an inertia in monetary policy, historically ... we have seen the central bank be a bit more active when the currency falls, but despite the record lows for the Turkish lira, the reaction of the central bank has been extremely limited. – Murat Toprak	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
But in the four years of the Syria crisis, there has been inertia rather than leadership, as the German government calmly says that it expects 800,000 refugees and asylum seekers in 2015, it is vital for the U.S. to step up its response. – David Milliband in a statement	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There has been a poor session in Asia and I don't think investors are getting involved ... Basic inertia and low volumes are dragging markets lower. – Michael Hewson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
These folks are nonviolent, not dangerous. They are in here because of inertia built into a large system. – Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success. – Dorothea Brande	added by anonymous 9 years ago
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition. – Northrop Frye	added by anonymous 9 years ago
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	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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. – W. Clement Stone	added by anonymous 10 years ago
That's why many fail -- because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin. – W. Clement Stone	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well-meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on. – Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re-armament	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia. – William James	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. – Elbert Hubbard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success. – Dorthea Bragg	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Inertia is a big factor, sometimes the gift card is for a store that you don’t particularly like or it’s not convenient to go there.

– Ted Rossman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's a really profound fundamental thing that happens in the brain of people like dancers or skaters over lots and lots of practice. And that's basically a change in the way the brain is processing information, when you spin around, you're activating the semicircular canals, rotation sensors. They're filled with fluid and they're sensing your rotation. But when you stop, the fluid has inertia and it tends to continue to move. They actually get a false sensation of movement.

– Kathleen Cullen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There is an inertia about new technologies, and the treatment for fall armyworm has the awful combination of being both costly and difficult.

– Paul Voutier

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

These (programs) are often mandated on a national level, but out in the townships they arent enforced, because of inertia.

– Roberto Valdovinos

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

This creates an environment where inertia is the norm, which allows automakers which may otherwise disappear to continue to survive for decades.

– James Chao

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The transition away from being a rentier state is not a comfortable one, they’re trying. But the fundamental question is: will their trying bear enough fruit before the downside of the current system hits? Or is it a day late and a dollar short? Will the forces of change ultimately be enough to overcome the inertia of the current system? I don’t know.

– David Chaudron

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's more difficult to awaken from [this stage] of sleep than [others], whenever you wake up from a deeper stage of sleep, you can experience sleep inertia, which is a feeling of disorientation.

– Natalie Dautovich

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Even if we put aside the Fed, we still have this political uncertainty and we are seeing an inertia in monetary policy, historically ... we have seen the central bank be a bit more active when the currency falls, but despite the record lows for the Turkish lira, the reaction of the central bank has been extremely limited.

– Murat Toprak

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

But in the four years of the Syria crisis, there has been inertia rather than leadership, as the German government calmly says that it expects 800,000 refugees and asylum seekers in 2015, it is vital for the U.S. to step up its response.

– David Milliband in a statement

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There has been a poor session in Asia and I don't think investors are getting involved ... Basic inertia and low volumes are dragging markets lower.

– Michael Hewson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

These folks are nonviolent, not dangerous. They are in here because of inertia built into a large system.

– Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.

– Dorothea Brande

added by anonymous
9 years ago

It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

– Northrop Frye

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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.

– W. Clement Stone

added by anonymous
10 years ago

That's why many fail -- because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

– W. Clement Stone

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well-meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.

– Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re-armament

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.

– William James

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

– Elbert Hubbard

added by anonymous
14 years ago

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.

– Dorthea Bragg

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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