Inertia Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.

The minority of Mexicans who are aware of their own selves do not make up a closed or unchanging class. They are the only active group, in comparison with the Indian-Spanish inertia of the rest, and ever day they are shaping the country more and more into their own image.

One thing to remember is the sheer strength of inertia of investment that is in place -- aided in many cities by insurance companies and financial institutions, ... The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster.

Short-term success is not the goal. It?s long-term resolution. It takes a lot of mental energy to overcome inertia and commit to overcoming a bad habit.

Historically, you have lot of great content minds at Disney and Viacom and all the media conglomerates. But there's also been a big hesitation to try new things, and there's been a lot of inertia at the big media companies. One thing I don't think anyone has accused Steve Jobs of is inertia.

Reforms are at risk from inertia and complacency. Reforms must be accelerated or they will fail.

I think there will come a day when people will purchase drivers by ball performance and not the hype or numbers written on the club. Driver true-loft performance is a synergy of factors. Only the ball flight can tell you the true dynamic loft -- and that is a mixed function of measured loft, face angle, center of gravity, moment of inertia top to bottom and face roll.

it takes forever if you go by inertia...

... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.

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

There is a certain amount of inertia to some of these commissions, ... A sense that it is 'business as usual,' and what went before is what we do now.

To improve the style of the 401(k), we should recognize the power of inertia in human behavior and enlist it to promote rather than hinder savings.

While they have made impressive progress, we believe that the sales cycle can be as long as two years given the inertia inherent in many large marketing organizations.

There is a lot of inertia in the small-business market, which relies on sales representatives to call them or visit.

Even if you could stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at present day levels, the system has a certain amount of thermal inertia and would take several more decades to stabilize. You'd have to really decrease the rate that you're putting stuff in the atmosphere to get the concentrations to level out and that'll probably be fairly difficult politically.

I'm sure one of the clauses in AOL's deal with broadband partners was a fairly hefty commitment as far as how many customers would make the switch. Two dollars removes any sort of price-related inertia that their dial-up customers might feel.

In view of the compelling case for urgent action to reduce carbon emissions, we are concerned there may be a degree of institutional inertia within the Treasury in the face of the scientific evidence on climate change.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were impossible to fail.

It's like making figures out of balloons. You can fill a balloon with air and shape it to be a pretzel, a donut or a hot dog. Each will have a different moment of inertia and a different center of gravity. By changing the shape of the balloon, you change the physical properties of the balloon.

We found that the cognitive skills of test subjects were worse upon awakening than after extended sleep deprivation. For a short period, at least, the effects of sleep inertia may be as bad or worse than being legally drunk.

The most cynical people in the salaried group were also unmotivated because they saw less of a connection between doing a good job and getting more money, ... The cynicism that we studied, which was all about organizational change and inertia vs. progress, spilled over into their beliefs in doing a good job and being rewarded for it. They're cynical in one area, and it poisoned their perceptions in another area.

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]

Silence is the language of inertia.

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

Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.

The only menace is inertia.

Mental inertia is death.

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

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

The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.

Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.

We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.

Depression is inertia.

Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third.