Quotes About Inertia

but such is the inertia of industrial civilization that we are likely to go on using fossil fuel for a decade at least.

I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.

The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy

Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.

Change has to be hard because you're fighting against inertia.

it was years since I'd roused myself from my stupor of misery and self-absorption; between anomie and trance, inertia and parenthesis and gnawing my own heart out, there were a lot of small, easy, everyday kindnesses I'd missed out on; and even the word kindness was like rising from unconsciousness into some hospital awareness of voices, and people, from a stream of digitized machines.

The sin of our times is the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

So far we've gotten nowhere at a thousand miles an hour.

Someone ought to glue his shoes to the floor to keep him where he

Possibly this is one more version of disappearing into your life, the way career telephone company bigwigs, overdutiful parents and owners of wholesale lumber companies are said to do and never know it. You simply reach a point at which everything looks the same but nothing matters much. There's no evidence you're dead, but you act that way.

First, never underestimate the power of inertia. Second, that power can be harnessed.

people have a strong tendency to go along with the status quo or default option.

All that spring and summer, there were times when she felt as if she had no joints or muscles, no physical means with which to move about the world.

If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.

A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.

The trouble with men is that they are mean-they may mean, but they don't move.

It's the task that's never started that's more tiresome.

Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Civilization is paralysis.

Old habits are strong and jealous.

Never underestimate the magnitude of the power of the forces that reinforce the status quo.

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.