Quotes About Inertia

My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not, indeed help doing so; but there was no real life in me.

Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.

Boredom is the deadliest poison.

Tesla had run into the problem that even if one system (his) was better, sheer inertia, habit, and the cost of the new could combine to thwart technological improvement.

It was painful to contemplate the distance between the future of accomplishment I'd imagined for myself twenty years earlier...it was painful to understand that the cushion of exceptionality invoked by the drug had made me oblivious to my inertia. And it was painful to have to define myself again, at an age when most people are happy in their own skins.

It was painful to contemplate the distance between the future of accomplishment I'd imagined for myself twenty years earlier, and the reality...it was painful to understand that the cushion of exceptionality invoked by the drug had made me oblivious to my inertia. And it was painful to have to define myself again, at an age when most people are happy in their own skins.

I seem to operate on the unconscious premise that if I allow inertia rather than desire to dictate my actions, i will live longer.

Lots of people haven't done anything,' said longest friend. 'And still they're not doing it, will always be not doing it, in their private coffins down at the usual place.

I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.

Technology keeps progressing. Young people follow the curve. But as they get older, they get inertia, and they start deviating from that curve.

Many Americans say they want to be organ donors, but they just don't get around to acting on their intentions. Helping these potential good Samaritans overcome their inertia could prolong thousands of lives a year.

He was in an eddy again, a deep, lethargic gulf, without desire to work or write, love or dissipate.

I thought i could wake up this sleeping country with my cries, but still they sleep as if in a dream.

The circumstances of his life were marked by that strange but rather common phenomenon – perhaps, in fact, it's true for all lives – of being tailored to the image and likeness of his instincts, which tended towards inertia and withdrawal.

It's like being intoxicated with inertia, drunk but with no enjoyment in the drinking or in the drunkenness.

There is no reason for any of our desires to exist. Our attention is an absurdity allowed by our winged inertia.

the chance circumstances of his life and the direction it had taken were dictated by his instincts, in his case inertia and detachment.

Boredom is not a thing. It's not a feeling or a condition. It is the absence of feelings, things and conditions.

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.

What happens when an irresistible force hits an immovable object?

As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor.

What is the half-life of information? Does its rate of decay correlate with the medium that conveys it? Pixels need power. Paper is unstable in fire and flood. Letters carved in stone are more durable, although not so easily distributed, but inertia can be a good thing.

I don't feel like doing anything. I don't feel like riding the motion is too powerful; I don't feel like walking-it is too tiring; I don't feel like lying down, for either I would have to stay down, and I don't feel like doing that, or I would have to get up again, and I don't feel like doing that, either. Summa Summarum: I don't feel like doing anything.

He had reached a dead end. He had been content to drift from moment to moment of existence for thirty years like some heavily armored creature, sluggish and indifferent.