Quotes About Inertia

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

Inertia is the death of creativity

the perverse senselessness of just remaining, of not going.

An object in motion tends to stay in motion, and an object too long at rest tends to have her throat slit.

What are the harmful elements you should remove? Everyone is different, but some of the common ones are as follows: Habits that are unhealthy or even destructive A negative mind-set that leads to frequent complaints Tendency to sabotage your own success Physical, mental, or spiritual clutter Inertia or indecisiveness that prevents effective action

Dullness is the enemy.

I don't want to work, but I have buoys of cork in my stomach. They won't let me go down, will they?

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon.

My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language. . . . Maybe I was only then becoming aware of the weight, the inertia, the opacity of the world--qualities that stick to the writing from the start, unless one finds some way of evading them.

Dalle tende a cono si levava il concerto dei pesanti respiri addormentati. Cosa fosse quel poter chiudere gli occhi, perdere coscienza di sé, affondare in un vuoto delle proprie ore, e poi svegliandosi ritrovarsi eguale a prima, a riannodare i fili della propria vita, Agilulfo non lo poteva sapere e la sua invidia per la facoltà di dormire propria delle persone esistenti era un'invidia vaga, come di qualcosa che non si sa nemmeno concepire.

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.

An object in motion will stay in motion, and an object at rest will stay at rest, unless acted on by an outside force.

are we wired to be passive and inert? Or are we wired to be active and engaged?

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

Peter Morrow took no risks. He neither failed nor succeeded. There were no valleys, but neither were there mountains. Peter's landscape was flat. An endless, predictable desert.

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

Everyone is born lazy.

I'm kind of lazy.

It's very easy to say no to leaving the house.

It didn't occur to me then, though it certainly does now, that 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 liking rising from unconsciousness into some hospital awareness of voices, and people, from a stream of digitized machines.

It didn't occur to me then, though it certainly does now, that 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.