Quotes About Inertia

Even boredom has its crises.

My gramps is a lot like you. No sense of adventure. All he does is sit in his urn...

If we're satisfied with our life—not necessarily happy or delighted that we've exceeded our wildest expectations, just satisfied—we yield to inertia. We continue doing what we've always done. If we're dissatisfied, we may go to the other extreme, falling for any and every idea, never pursuing one idea long enough so that it takes root and actually shapes a recognizably new us.

If we're satisfied with our life—not necessarily happy or delighted that we've exceeded our wildest expectations, just satisfied—we yield to inertia. We continue doing what we've always done.

We do not appreciate inertia's power over us. Given the choice, we prefer to do nothing

I hate caring about stuff. But apparently once you start, you can't just stop.

The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third.

Maybe even suicide would have been too active. Maybe in some lives you just float around and expect nothing else and don't even try to change. Maybe that was most lives.

Hasta el suicidio le habría parecido una medida demasiado «activa». Quizá en algunas vidas uno simplemente flota sin esperar nada más, sin intentar siquiera cambiar. Quizá así fueran la mayoría de vidas.

Puis, titubants, nous émergeâmes de l'ombre épaisse dans une autre moins dense, je compris que c'était la nuit, passagère - ce qui n'est pas éternel est si beau -, la nuit et la pluie d'été, je voulus tendre les mains pour qu'elle me lave de la boue souterraine, pour qu'elle éteigne ma fièvre, mais mes bras pendaient inertes, inutiles.

Ebook readers might cause problems. This has become a controversial topic as more and more people use and love ereaders. A close friend of mine doesn't go anywhere without her Kindle and will probably be buried with it. A Wolf, she was dismayed when I shared the findings of a new Harvard Medical School study:23 reading an ebook in the hour before bed delayed sleep more than reading a print book under normal lamplight, and it also increased sleep inertia the next day.

To overcome inertia, Peter Drucker, the legendary consultant, suggested asking the seemingly naïve question, "If we did not do this already, would we, knowing what we now know, go into it?"26

Their business here was over then, and they all knew it; the magic moment had arrived when it was understood that nothing more would be established, discovered, or decided today. But the meeting, having once begun, must drag on for several long more hours before it could be ended. The engines of protocol had enormous inertial mass; once set in motion they took forever to grind to a stop.

God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.

Not everybody has to be a striver. Canada does a very good job of trying to raise the standard of living of all its citizens. I think this is admirable and appropriate. However, those poor, tortured Canadian souls who are driven to innovate and make things, don't just have to endure the typical loneliness of genius, they also must overcome the inertia of a culture that continually asks strivers, 'Who do you think you are?

It is easy to go downhill; gravity does all the work.

In the Greek myth, Sisyphus, with great effort, rolls a large rock up a mountain. At the top, the rock, of its own inertia, rolls back down again. Doomed to roll the rock up the mountain over and over again to no avail—this is what life often feels like to those in extreme despair.

It is very difficult to motivate people to revolution when they are extremely comfortable and well off.

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

Disaffection, once begun, acquires a momentum of its own

Vamos con la reserva». Alice repite la frase mentalmente porque es un buen resumen de su situación. Hace años que Ken y ella entraron en reserva, y es increíble lo lejos que se puede llegar cuando uno se deja llevar por la inercia, cuando el único motor es la esperanza. Aun

The principle of inertia and the notion of natural selection eliminated the necessity of attributing meaning to facts, but they did not demonstrate that meaning does not exist.