{"quotes":[{"text":"Very often inertia, selfishness, and vanity play the greatest role in our trust in others; inertia when we prefer to trust somebody else, in order not to investigate, be vigilant, or act ourselves; selfishness when the desire to speak about our own affairs tempts us to confide in someone else; vanity when it concers something that we are proud of.","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","tags":["inertia","selfishness","trust","vanity"],"id":21172,"author_id":"Arthur+Schopenhauer"},{"text":"Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.","author":"Theodor W. Adorno","tags":["evil","inertia","morality","triviality"],"id":44795,"author_id":"Theodor+W.+Adorno"},{"text":"He saw something more in those eyes. The emotion wasn't nakedly apparent, but Mr. Cawley was a professional at reading the subtleties of people. The elderly and wildly successful credit card magnate believed that certain human frailties could actually help fuel success. Insecurity drove billionaire entrepreneurs. Emotional instability made for superb art. The need for attention built great political leaders. But anger, in his experience, led only to inertia.","author":"Jeff Hobbs","tags":["anger","emotional-instability","human-frailties","inertia","need-for-attention"],"id":44926,"author_id":"Jeff+Hobbs"},{"text":"But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.","author":"William Faulkner","tags":["curiosity","fatalism","inertia","joe-christmas","light-in-august","pessimism"],"id":66696,"author_id":"William+Faulkner"},{"text":"We know how ninety-nine percent of the universe works,' he told Carter shortly after they met, 'and that's the clockworks, that's what we build with. But the other one percent makes the clockworks wind down. That's inertia. No one knows how that works, but it does. It's that one percent mystery that's the way of our maker. Put everything together, energy and inertia, the explicable and the inexplicable, and that's how you and I make our living.","author":"Glen David Gold","tags":["carter-beats-the-devil","clockworks","inertia","inexplicable","mystery","universe"],"id":75267,"author_id":"Glen+David+Gold"},{"text":"I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.","author":"Og Mandino","tags":["activism","inertia","iniative","mantra"],"id":113796,"author_id":"Og+Mandino"},{"text":"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.","author":"David Foster Wallace","tags":["beauty","creativity","fear","idealism","idealists","ideals","inertia","infp","perfection","perfection-and-confusion","perfectionism","perfectionists","writers-block"],"id":145757,"author_id":"David+Foster+Wallace"},{"text":"I remembered that once, as a child, I was filled with wonder, that I had marveled at tri-folded science projects, encyclopedias, and road atlases. I left much of that wonder somewhere between Mrs.Wheeler's class and Mondawmin Mall, somewhere between the schools and the streets. Now I had the privilege of welcoming it back like a long-lost friend, though our reunion was laced with grief; I mourned over all the years that were lost. The mourning continues. Even today, from time to time, I find myself on beaches watching six-year-olds learn to surf, or at colleges listening to sophomores slip from English to Italian, or at cafés seeing young poets flip though 'The Waste Land,' or listening to the radio where economists explain economic things that I could've explored in my lost years, mourning, hoping that I and all my wonder, my long-lost friend, had not yet run out of time, though I know that we all run out of time, and some of us run out of it faster.","author":"Ta-Nehisi Coates","tags":["inertia","meaning","mortality","mourning","purpose","regret","wasted-time"],"id":164359,"author_id":"Ta-Nehisi+Coates"},{"text":"The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.","author":"Tahir Shah","tags":["danger","inertia","jungle","time","village"],"id":171173,"author_id":"Tahir+Shah"},{"text":"She could not picture it. Herself riding on the subway or streetcar, caring for new horses, talking to new people, living among hordes of people every day who were not Clark.A life, a place, chosen for that specific reason––that it would not contain. ","author":"Alice Munro","tags":["abusive-relationships","inertia","regret"],"id":175475,"author_id":"Alice+Munro"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":31,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}