Quotes About Inertia

I go on living, more from force of habit than anything else.

What is perceptible to one's mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the ever-recurring sameness of it, the pre-formations passed down by generation after generation, the ready-made language not only of the tongue but also of the sensations and the feelings.

Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.

Perhaps they are worse than evil - they are bored.

Things in rest tend to remain in rest. Things in motion tend to remain in motion." - Practice

Peu à peu, ils ont pris l'habitude d'être au fort, ils y sont restés emprisonnés, ils n'ont plus été capables d'en bouger. Vieux à trente ans, en fait.

A body will accelerate in proportion to the force acting upon it,

inertia selling n. [mass noun] BRITISH the sending of unsolicited goods to potential customers in the hope of making a sale.

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.

'Custom is the great deadener.' There is no doubt that we of the white race are going on obliviously supporting customs that would seem abhorrent and incredible to a higher and more brotherly civilization.

It is not dying but deadness we should fear.

The silence had that slack quality that speaks only of the indifference of uninhabited rooms, and his footsteps sounded alien and overloud as he made his way down the hall.

By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.

But the conventional practice, particularly in a large foundation, is to delegate administration to a hierarchical staff structure, much as a business board would do it. And when bureaucratic inertia takes over, as it does—in time—in all institutions that are so structured, the usual remedy is to install a new top administrator who will build some new life into it.

Life is a physics problem. Bodies in motion.

cliche but accurate: Kick a football, then ask it whether it meant to fly. All action demands an equal and opposite reaction. You can't blame an object battered by inertial forces; you can't blame me, bouncing through the pinball machine of life.

Duelo) No Continuo, sino Inmóvil

Tautology creates a dead, a motionless world.

Habit is the great flywheel of society.

Matter is lazy. It resists change. It wants to keep on doing whatever it's doing, whether that's sitting still or moving. We call that laziness inertia, but that doesn't mean we understand it. For a thousand years we've labelled it, quantified it, caged it in equations, but we've still only scratched the surface of what it really is.

He might also interpret his experience thus: "My body of reference (the carriage) remains permanently at rest. With reference to it, however, there exists (during the period of application of the brakes) a gravitational field which is directed forwards and which is variable with respect to time. Under the influence of this field, the embankment together with the earth move non-uniformly in such a manner that their original velocity in the backward direction is continuously reduced.

A Man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.

Rajas is activity and Tamas inertia. Sattva is the balance of these two, for only consciousness can balance kinetic energy with potential energy.