Inertia Quotes

The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.

Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.

Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.

The human mind is scattered. We have become negligent about our distractions, inertia, confusion, doubt, fear, and anger.

We stayed on at the Institute [Chicago called the School of Design] because that was - I don't know, you start at one place and you stay there, I guess. Inertia takes over.

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.

Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation.

You see often it's not ideas, it's inertia, it's bureaucratism, it's all the other things that sometimes come in the way of a good idea.

Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.

Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people.

We must renew democracy itself. We have to fight cynicism and inertia and restore faith in the advancement of our country.

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

Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.

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

Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to.

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

Inertia is the death of creativity

Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.

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.

There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.

A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.

Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine.

It takes forever if you go by inertia.

What kind of Dv would it take to escape history, to escape an inertia that powerful, and carve a new course? The hardest part is leaving Earth behind.

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.

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

A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.

Silence is the language of inertia.

In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.

Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics.

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.

Human inertia induces us to believe that our lives will never change unless we relocate.

Sadness is the ambrosia of all art.

When we do something, we may not think about why we are doing what we are doing, says Oehler, for then it would suddenly be totally impossible for us to do anything.

Young adults rebel against the pre-invented/ packaged world, but sooner or later they stop and they also become proponents of the tried and true.

Mostly, what people mean by love is laziness.

Change has to be hard because you're fighting against inertia.

The Law of Inertia states that a body in motion will remain in motion, and a body at rest will remain at rest. In life, nothing will happen when no one will make a move