Quotes About Inertia

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Humankind above all is lazy.

The thing is that people will put up with any kind of discomfort, and dying babies, and old age at thirty as long as it has always been that way.

Stones don't walk.They're so perfect they've nowhere to go.

Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition… Yet change is life's only constant.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly false too.

A body at rest or in uniform motion remains in that state of rest or uniform motion unless it is disturbed by forces.

Being at rest becomes merely a special case of uniform motion-it is just motion at zero speed.

How can it be that there is no distinction between motion and rest? The key is to realize that whether a body is moving or not has no absolute meaning. Motion is defined only with respect to an observer, who can be moving or not. If you are moving past me at a steady rate, then the cup of coffee I perceive to be at rest on my table is moving with respect to you.

All this is to offer the heresy that the role of presidential leadership, yet another shadow cast by the Roosevelt years, is often exaggerated. Presidents of course can take executive actions, especially in foreign affairs, that have dramatic effects. But only sometimes, for many snags—bureaucratic inertia, the capriciousness of public opinion, partisan opposition, interest group pressures, Congress—hem in presidential designs.

Like Disneyland, luxury retailers have long had to figure out how to overcome customers' natural inertia. Unlike less pricey stores, they tend not to attract idle browsers who make impulse purchases.

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.

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

Man's inability to get out of bed in the morning is a curious thing. One may reason with oneself clearly and forcibly without the slightest effect. One knows that delay means inconvenience. Perhaps it may spoil one's whole day. And one also knows that a single resolute heave will do the trick. But logic is of no use. One simply lies there.

There seems to be a psychological law of inertia that bogs down every hopeful activist and subverts every revolution. When compassion and empathy fail, backsliding begins. Or totalitarianism.

Inertia is the most powerful force in business. Things stay just as they are until something—brute force, reason, fear, enlightened self-interest, the survival instinct—effects movement.

We have made some progress, thought Gladstone, despite the inertia forced upon us by the Core. Despite the near-death of science. Despite our fatal addiction to the toys granted us by our own creations.

O primeiro movimento para um novo território implica o abandono de uma agradável rotina e a luta contra a inércia dos caminhos já trilhados; este pequeno ato de atenção exige aquilo a que a neurociência chama «esforço cognitivo». Essa esforçada componente de domínio executivo liberta a atenção, permitindo-lhe vaguear à vontade e percorrer novos caminhos.

If you can't discover what's keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - Ishmael

If you can't discover what's keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual.

But mostly they just sat there, cemented in place by their secretions of chatter.

the two girls emanated an incorrigible idle inertia.

I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the same as he was set on staying still, like it aint the moving he hates so much as the starting and the stopping.

What he was now seeing was the street lonely, savage, and cool. That was it: cool; he was thinking, saying aloud to himself sometimes, "I better move. I better get away from here." But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.