Quotes About Inertia

it struck me with the force of certainty that I wasn't the only one of us to be affected this way: that Theo was feeling it too, and this was why he was so cross. And Jonathan? Was he too infected with this deadly inertia? And where was it coming from?

Quando un popolo rifiuta un progresso facile da raggiungere, quando un veicolo, spinto da dieci uomini, rimane inchiodato sul posto, quando un bambino si abbruttisce davanti al televisore per ore e ore, quando un'idea si cui è stata dimostrata l'inutilità continua a nuocere, allora si scopre, con stupore, lo spaventoso potere dell'immobile.

I woke up in the morning and I didn't want anything, didn't do anything, couldn't do it anyway, just lay there listening to the blood rush through me and it never made any sense, anything.

For it is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new,unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical, will live the relation to another as something alive.

Because the blinking line doesn't just taunt you with all the possibilities that are before you, the potential, all that you sense could exist but isn't yet because you haven't created it. The blinking line also asks a question: Who are you to do this? And that question can be paralyzing. It can prevent us from overcoming inertia. It can cause crippling doubt and stress. It can keep us stuck on the couch while life passes us by.

A life lived from the back seat, observed as it blured by. An indifferent life.

The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change.

Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.

Can it really be that the world- our world- still exists? Or is this just inertia, the generator is off, but the gears are still turning and plodding along- two or three more rotations, then on the fourth, they'll come to a standstill...

Before discussing the advantages of conflict, he will instinctively resign himself to inertia. If, on the contrary, his temperament disposes him to anger, he will compromise an undertaking by a spontaneous violence, which patience and reflection would otherwise have made successful. It is possible also that a valiant soul is unable to obey a weak body, and that instinct, awakened by fear, leads one on to the impulsive desires of activity

People tended to reconcile themselves to the status quo, declaring that 'this is how it always was, and this is how it always will be'.

It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the gravity of inertia, apathy and laziness, (known in Sankrit as the quality of tapas) that overwhelms this age. Despite this seemingly gloomy prognosis, there is a way out of this predicament for those with the will and stamina to awaken from the rampant lethargy, within and outside of themselves, to take action.

Taking responsibility for change means overcoming the inertia and feeling of powerlessness on a personal level. People can grow and change if they are personally willing to confront and unlearn their racist conditioning (Kiselica, 1999; Sue, 2003; Winter, 1977).

Those with visible responsibility for leadership are nearly always too visible to take responsibility for change.

Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.

In principle, time would come to a halt for an object moving at the speed of light.

She struggled to think of one day in more than fifteen years of life when instead of drifting along like a leaf on the river she'd simply grabbed what she wanted. The

It is well for those who hug the present and want to preserve it as it is not to play with mass movements. For it always fares ill with the present when a genuine mass movement is on the march.

On les écouta, on compatit, on s'indigna, on promit, mais on ne bougea pas une lance

Contrary to what I might like to think,my life is not guided by reason;it is ruled rather by the inertia of habitual motion.

Fatigue overtakes me, and a grief so concentrated I swim in it. A grief that makes my arms heavy. A grief that makes my back slump. A grief that makes me close my eyes. I want to sleep like the unborn and the dead. I want to sleep so deeply that I see him again. I want to confront him. Who were you? I want to say. Why do you talk to me now? I want to shake his inert body. But what's the use? Our losses will never be done with us. They have endless patience.

I know how deeply slothful I am.

allowing an existing structure to remain in place for too long creates inertia and results in an organization that is maladapted to the opportunities it finds.

Floggings will continue until apathy improves! (Apathy-improves?) How is one to be, more, apathetic!!