Quotes About Inertia

Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn't appear to notice.

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by inertia.

According to yoga philosophy, the human personality is a constant interplay of these three elements – inertia, energy, and harmony. All three are always present, but one tends to be dominant at any given time – in a day, throughout a stage of life, over a life itself

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Quant à mes professeurs, ils semblaient avoir décidé d'emblée que j'étais une excellente élève par une sorte d'inertie inhérente à l'ensemble de ce système scolaire poussiéreux.

Va a costar mucho trabajo motivar a Sophie para cometer uno o varios crímenes, ya que su naturaleza la inclina a no esforzarse demasiado.

There is no way to convince everyone to support the revitalization of our languages, so laying out reasons for our efforts does not mean we wait for them all to join the movement. We act and advocate at the same time. The acting is required to combat inertia. We don't have time to waste.

The earth's crust is very thin but the planet can act as a spaceship if a force or energy powerful enough was exerted on it, to eject it from the solar system. But its mantle and core may leak due to inertia, causing the planet to disintegrate.

I knew I was free; that I had always been free; held back only by my own weakness, lacking impulse and the imagination to break away from an existence that had become habitual for years.

Apathy, or lethargy, or a combination of the two, soon casts a spell over everything and the most traumatic events are quickly forgotten.

But they only run away. Run isn't quite accurate. Their legs don't move. Their still-twitching feet don't touch the ground.

We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive.

One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.

Our culture works hard to prevent change.

Forward motion isn't the default state of any group of people, particularly groups with lots of people.

Most people would rather suffer through a bad situation than take steps needed to free themselves...

Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name.

Insanity is coasting through life.

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

Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves.

Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition... Yet change is life's only constant.

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.