Top 100 Quotes About Inertia
#2. In this world is not the creative act of the genius always a protest against the inertia of the mass?
Adolf Hitler
#3. Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
Alexis Carrel
#4. Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
Alexis Carrel
#5. Rules, established with reason and justice, can easily outlive their usefulness as circumstances change, yet can remain in force through inertia. It is then not only right, but useful, to break those rules as a way of advertising the fact that they have become useless - or even actually harmful.
Isaac Asimov
#6. You can provide the conditions for the motivation of others and the leadership to help them find a way but they must have the intrinsic spark, the desire, to move, to overcome the inertia of the status quo and change things.
Graham Speechley
#7. What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.
Simon Travaglia
#8. The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.
Marcel Proust
#9. We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.
Learned Hand
#10. The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
Edward Dahlberg
#11. 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.
Ruth Ozeki
#12. Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.
Napoleon Hill
#13. Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies ... and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.
William James
#14. 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.
James Lovelock
#15. They had the magic pill, the solution to the inertia and frustration that has plagued the great literary protagonists I'd related to all my life - be it Leopold Bloom, Alex Portnoy, or Piglet from Winnie the Pooh. As
Neil Strauss
#16. If you want a robot to maneuver aggressively, it has to be small. As you scale things down, the 'moment of inertia' - the resistance to angular motion - drops dramatically.
Vijay Kumar
#17. So much of life consists of inertia and drift, the brief savory or sour of any particular day tends to blur into the next so that it all becomes one big flavorless wad.
Ben Fountain
#18. A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas arise, so to speak,by the mind's inertia and conceptions of things by its activity. Ideas are mental sediment; conceived things are mental growths.
George Santayana
#19. 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.
Andrew Mason
#20. Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.
Terence McKenna
#21. 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.
Tahir Shah
#22. I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.
Ridley Scott
#23. Look, it's not love that makes the world go round, it's inertia,
Gregory Benford
#24. 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
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#25. Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.
Maya Angelou
#26. No single individual, however eccentric or brilliant, could affect the enormous inertia of a society that had remained virtually unchanged for over a billion years.
Arthur C. Clarke
#27. The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.
Kevin Kelly
#28. The longer you're stuck in a position that doesn't truly challenge you, the less likely you'll be able to leave it. Inertia, in fact, is one of my worst fears.
Ryan Holmes
#29. Doing absolutely nothing has its own inertia, making it tougher to walk out that door, and once outside, the fear of my computer kept me from wanting to come back.
Fred Venturini
#30. Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.
Milan Kundera
#32. Being on a set where the director has lost control is just sickening. No one goes the extra mile, there's a lot of eye-rolling ... it just breeds inertia. If a director is in control, the crew follow their leader. But the second anyone senses the directors are not sure, people just swoop in.
Christine Vachon
#33. How many have gone? How many more to go? The Admiralty is fast asleep and lethargy & inertia are the order of the day. However everybody seems delighted - so there is nothing to be said. No plans, no enterprise, no struggle to aid the general cause. Just sit still on the spacious throne and snooze.
Winston Churchill
#34. Inertia. Guy's law of enchantment: People at rest will remain at rest, and people in motion will keep moving in the same direction unless an outside enchanter acts upon them.
Guy Kawasaki
#35. Active, pulsing love took a secondary position to expedient need and the narcoleptic inertia of the day-to-day.
Craig Lancaster
#36. We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.
Maurice Strong
#37. But the motion to keep the planet going in a straight line has no known reason. The reason why things coast for ever has never been found out. The law of inertia has no known origin. Although
Richard Feynman
#38. The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they invariably are, the result is individual passivity, a state of inertia that precludes action.
Herbert Schiller
#39. Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We must believe that we can make choices and that those choices can alter the future.
Max McKeown
#40. Don't create Success and reveal in it in a state of inertia. Keep challenging yourself as challenges keeps you energized. If you are steadily conquering challenges, you are happy.
Pravin Agarwal
#41. What he was now seeing was the street lonely, savage, and cool. That was it: cool; he was thinking, saying aloud to himself sometimes, "I better move. I better get away from here."
But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.
William Faulkner
#42. So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Ben Stein
#43. It's like being intoxicated with inertia, drunk but with no enjoyment in the drinking or in the drunkenness.
Fernando Pessoa
#44. Her voice had become sharp with overtones of bleakness as her soul congealed and she ceased to move, as the instinctive, omnipresent film of great weight, of an almost absolute inertia, settled over her.
Philip K. Dick
#45. Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
Seth Godin
#46. To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.
Mahatma Gandhi
#47. Size matters not. Inertia, however, is a pain in the butt."
-Mander Zuma
Jeff Grubb
#48. Every vice of the Empire has been repeated in the Foundation. 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.
Isaac Asimov
#49. Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.
George Santayana
#50. The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.
W. Clement Stone
#51. 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.
Margaret Heffernan
#52. And the whole huge town of a million people was locked in a sort of violent inertia, a nightmare of noise without movement.
George Orwell
#53. The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.
Robertson Davies
#54. Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
A. J. Jacobs
#55. As each man's strength gives out, as it no longer responds to his will, the inertia of the whole gradually comes to rest on the commander's will alone. The ardor of his spirit must rekindle the flame of purpose in all others; his inward fire must revive their hope.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#56. 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.
Ernest Hemingway,
#59. One curious result of this inertia, which deserves to rank among the fundamental 'laws' of nature, is that when a discovery has finally won tardy recognition it is usually found to have been anticipated, often with cogent reasons and in great detail.
F. C. S. Schiller
#60. Inertia is the most powerful force in business. Things stay just as they are until something - brute force, reason, fear, enlightened self-interest, the survival instinct - effects movement.
Patrick G. Riley
#61. Technology has made it easier for different firms to coordinate their activities with one another, and they don't have to be part of one company. They can get the benefits of scale without the inertia of scale.
Erik Brynjolfsson
#62. By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.
Robert Harris
#63. People accepted the worst from each other, screaming and slapping. Divorce and abortion were never a plot option. If this was love or just inertia, Misty couldn't tell.
Chuck Palahniuk
#64. Only by resolving can a human being step into actuality, however bitter this may be to him. Inertia lacks the will to abandon the inward brooding which allows it to retain everything as as a possibility. But possibility is not yet actuality.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#65. But maybe it won't. Maybe it will take on a role like the TCP protocol, where it becomes a piece of infrastructure on which other things are built, and has the inertia of consensus.
Randall Munroe
#66. Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions and to the voluntary desire of powerful classes to maintain the existing status.
John Dewey
#67. Whatever blocks you encounter, you have learned that there is a way over, around or through them. It is not those obstacles that inhibit your progress but your confidence, and will to break the inertia of fear and doubt.
Douglas Smith
#68. She went out socially with him, but without enthusiasm, devoured already by that eternal inertia which comes to live with each of us one day and stays with us to the end.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#69. Adroit geo-strategists take new realities into account as they try to imagine how global politics will unfold. In the foreign policy business, however, inertia is a powerful force and 'adroit' a little-known concept.
Stephen Kinzer
#70. At my age, every day that I overcome simple inertia is a victory.
Michael LaRocca
#71. Courageous leaders face unpleasant and even devastating situations with equanimity, then act firmly to bring good from trouble, even if their action is unpopular. Leadership always faces natural human inertia and opposition. But courage follows through with a task until it is done.
J. Oswald Sanders
#72. Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done; for reasons of inertia, pecuniary interest, passion or ignorance, we do not wish to say so.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#73. Those whom even love cannot shake from their habitual aversion to risk and inertia are those who are truly unredeemable.
Cristina Nehring
#74. The way people are forever rolling their eyes to heaven and saying: "Perhaps it's all for the best," when they are perfectly dead sure it's not, makes me enraged. Humility or resignation or whatever you choose to call it, is simply impotent inertia. I'm for a more militant religion!
Jean Webster
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Rachele Brooke Smith
#77. CEOs of large firms often fail to read the handwriting on the wall, because of complacence, inertia, or overconfidence.
Navi Radjou
#78. Culture has tremendous inertia," he said. "That's why it's culture. It works because it lasts. Culture strangles innovation in the crib.
Atul Gawande
#79. 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.
Justina Chen Headley
#80. Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#81. Rajas is activity and Tamas inertia. Sattva is the balance of these two, for only consciousness can balance kinetic energy with potential energy.
Robert E. Svoboda
#82. Inertia is depression's best friend. There's always a hump to get over before you can actually change. So pushing yourself over the hump is like opening a door to a new brain pattern.
Deepak Chopra
#83. The idea of salvation through some one or some thing outside of ourselves came from love of inertia. We want God or his Son to save us. We thought that Hapi would give us immortality if we flattered his vanity by praying to him.
Alice Moore Hubbard
#84. Galileo had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and the law of bodies falling freely in the gravitational field of the earth.
Albert Einstein
#85. Spiritual movements are revolts of thought against inertia, of the few against the many; of those who because they are strong in spirit are strongest alone against those who can express themselves only in the mass and the mob, and who are significant only because they are numerous.
Ludwig Von Mises
#86. Human inertia induces us to believe that our lives will never change unless we relocate.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#87. Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia.
Mary Parker Follett
#88. The assertion that "somebody else will not let me do anything" should always be suspected as a cover-up for inertia.
Peter F. Drucker
#89. Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.
Michael Burgess
#90. Sin and the effects of sin are similar to the laws of inertia: a person (or object) in motion will continue on that trajectory until acted upon by an outside force.
Lindsey A. Holcomb
#91. The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.
Edward L. Bernays
#92. A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.
Aleister Crowley
#93. Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.
Gustave Flaubert
#94. Thank God for running. It is the ultimate detox for me, whether my poison is bubbles, a foul mood, or a bad attitude. If I combat inertia, get out, and get moving, eventually every kind of toxin works its way out.
Kristin Armstrong
#95. I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic.
Gayle Forman
#96. Inertia is often mistaken for patience.
Marty Rubin
#97. It was too small a step,
somehow, too puny a thing to settle for after having lost so
much. So the courtship continued, and the more Tom came to
despise his job, the more stubbornly he defended his own inertia;
and the more inert he became, the more he despised himself.
Paul Auster
#98. The most dangerous enemy to Israel's security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security.
David Ben-Gurion
#99. Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change.
Gabrielle Roth
#100. INERTIA: Unless an object is acted on by friction from an outside force, it will spiral through space, in the same direction at the same speed - indefinitely!
Karen Russell
