Quotes About Inertia

Five Focusing Steps 1. IDENTIFY the system's constraint. 2. Decide how to EXPLOIT the system's constraint. 3. SUBORDINATE everything else to the above decisions. 4. ELEVATE the system's constraint. 5. If in the previous steps a constraint has been broken Go back to step 1, but do not allow inertia to cause a system constraint.

IDENTIFY the system's constraint(s). 2. Decide how to EXPLOIT the system's constraint(s). 3. SUBORDINATE everything else to the above decision. 4. ELEVATE the system's constraint(s). 5. WARNING!!!! If in the previous steps a constraint has been broken, go back to step 1, but do not allow INERTIA to cause a system's constraint.

Culture has tremendous inertia," he said. "That's why it's culture. It works because it lasts. Culture strangles innovation in the crib.

We have brought in the yoke of custom to improve the world, and in the world the custom sticks.

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.

For getting a fine flourishing growth of stupidity there is nothing like pouring out on a mind a good amount of subjects in which it feels no interest.

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

A world to be born under your footsteps. ?The poet is the one who breaks through our habits. ?The only menace is inertia.

Early on in my tenure, I was given a cartoon that circulated widely at the UN. The cartoon showed dozens of people listening to a speech. In the first panel, the speaker asks, "Who wants change?" and all audience members enthusiastically raise their hands. In the second panel, the speaker refines his question, asking, "Who wants to change?" This time, each audience member looks toward the ground, demurring.

I am not happy. I am not unhappy. I am frozen somewhere in the middle that is so much worse. I am nowhere. Nothing is happening and I am getting more and more sad.

Habit is a great deadener.

Every time she considered getting up and doing something, her limbs wouldn't move.

une once d'inertie pèse plus qu'un boisseau de sagesse (La conversation à Innsbruck)

Sometimes knowledge impedes change: We know more but do less.

No single individual, however eccentric or brilliant, could affect the enormous inertia of a society that had remained virtually unchanged for over a billion years.

No such thing as centrifugal force. It's an engineer's phantom. There's only inertia.

The gear that they were carrying looked very formidable, but though it was bulky it weighed practically nothing. It was all packed in gravity-polarising containers which neutralised its weight, leaving only inertia to be contended with.

Analytic experience has taught us that the better is always the enemy of the good and that in every phase of the patient's recovery we have to fight against his inertia, which is ready to be content with an incomplete solution.

Souvent, quand les malades souffraient un long martyre, je m'étais indignée de l'inertie de leurs proches. [...] Je me demandais comment on s'arrange pour survivre quand quelqu'un de cher vous a crié en vain : Pitié !

After that, we were like flies stuck in honey, alive but not really living.

If non-linear leaps in intelligence and ability are possible, why haven't these effects been observed in our schools? I believe the answer lies in the profound inertia of human thought: when an entire society believes something is impossible, it suppresses, by its very way of life, the evidence that would contradict that belief.

If one word applied to that post-war decade it was inertia. Enthusiasm there was not, in this climate of fatigue. Jimmy Porter was hurt because things had remained the same. Colonel Redfern grieved that everything had changed. They were both wrong, but that was hard to see at the time.

For years, I lived a life in which nothing really happened.

Cook was then very handsome in a fey English way and dressed in floor-length, striped djellaba. In the role of the dead-eyed Spiggott, he intoned lines like "You fill me with inertia," while appearing utterly indifferent to the beauties who danced in attendance. It was a scene that might have provided the basic blueprint for what would later become the Pet Shop Boys' career.