Inertia Quotes

• Five Focusing Steps 1. IDENTIFY the system’s constraint. 2. Decide how to EXPLOIT the system’s constraint. 3. SUBORDINATE everything else to the above decisions. 4. ELEVATE the system’s constraint. 5. If in the previous steps a constraint has been broken Go back to step 1, but do not allow inertia to cause a system constraint.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Decisions
  • Steps
  • Identify

• 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
  • Culture
  • Difficult
  • Brands

• An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one intrudes. It is a bare stage where the inert I is assisted by the I suffering from that inertia. The latter wishes to free the former, but all efforts fail, as Theseus would have failed had he been not only himself but also the Minotaur; to kill him then, he would have had to kill himself.

  

  Alejandra Pizarnik
  • Free
  • Space
  • Suffering

• 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
  • Military
  • Overcoming
  • Operations

• You might find it necessary to 'snap' out of your mental inertia, moving slowly at first, then increasing your speed, until you gain complete control over your will. Be persistent no matter how slowly you may, at first, have to move. With persistence will come success.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Success
  • Control

• When you regularly take continuous action toward your most important goals, you activate the Momentum Principle of success. This principle says that although it may take tremendous amounts of energy to overcome inertia and get started initially, it then takes far less energy to keep going.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Important
  • May
  • Success

• Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavours to preserve its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in a straight line.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Matter
  • Force
  • Definition

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Inertia
  • Malady
  • Sanitation

• Active, pulsing love took a secondary position to expedient need and the narcoleptic inertia of the day-to-day.

  

  Craig Lancaster
  • Position
  • Active
  • Expedient

• 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.

  

  Richard Thaler
  • American
  • Helping
  • Potential

• There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Events
  • Conduct
  • Novelties

• All nature works, and then rests; works and rests. I caught its rhythm and worked and rested with it. When I felt that inertia stealing over me, I rested; and while resting my power recuperated - the tide rose in me.

  

  Elizabeth Towne
  • Power
  • Works
  • Rhythm

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Construction
  • Scale
  • Inertia

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

  

  Seth Godin
  • Fear
  • Habit
  • Overcoming

• The essence of religion is inertia; the essence of science is change. It is the function of the one to preserve, it is the function of the other to improve. If, as in Egypt, they are firmly chained together, either science will advance, in which case the religion will be altered, or the religion will preserve its purity, and science will congeal.

  

  William Winwood Reade
  • Together
  • Cases
  • Purity

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

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Growing
  • Problem
  • Week

• 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
  • Personality
  • Changes
  • Inertia

• Mental inertia is death.

  

  Timothy Thomas Fortune
  • Death
  • Inertia

• 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
  • Imagination
  • Inertia
  • Slide

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

  

  Edward Bernays
  • Change
  • Enemy
  • Civilization

• It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

  

  Rex Stout
  • World
  • Choices
  • Inertia

• Though we may never be able to comprehend human life, we know certainly that it is a movement, of whatever nature it be. The existence of movement unavoidably implies a body which is being moved and a force which is moving it. Hence, wherever there is life, there is a mass moved by a force. All mass possesses inertia; all force tends to persist.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Force
  • Movement
  • Inertia

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

  

  Tony Blair
  • Leadership
  • Challenges
  • Faces