Inertia Quotes

You have a bit of inertia. You have a certain mentality that we have a deer in the headlights with the near-term earnings uncertainty versus the long-term prospects for economic recovery. So you have a market that's in a tug-of-war. - Bryan Piskorowski

While they have made impressive progress, we believe that the sales cycle can be as long as two years given the inertia inherent in many large marketing organizations. - Holly Becker

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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. - Natalie Goldberg

We found that the cognitive skills of test subjects were worse upon awakening than after extended sleep deprivation. For a short period, at least, the effects of sleep inertia may be as bad or worse than being legally drunk. - Kenneth Wright

We are witnessing some inertia that is impeding inflation to decline faster. That said, the central bank wouldn't have to quicken the drop in rates. - Zeina Latif

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