52 Quotes About Inertia

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

The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.

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 inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.

I=I

Sadness is the ambrosia of all art.

We know how ninety-nine percent of the universe works," he told Carter shortly after they met, "and that's the clockworks, that's what we build with. But the other one percent makes the clockworks wind down. That's inertia. No one knows how that works, but it does. It's that one percent mystery that's the way of our maker. Put everything together, energy and inertia, the explicable and the inexplicable, and that's how you and I make our living.

Two step forward and one step back, so as to bring in the inertia, and control the impending setback,Slowly, and surely it will lead to success, lest your fear should limit all initiatives to be held back!

I have so much inertia and so little initiative that very possibly if you had not kept me from taking my degree I would have, well, not taken to the practice of medicine, but at any rate to pathological psychology and you don’t know how little I like pathological psychology, and how all medicine bores me.