#inertia

Nothing happens until something moves. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#physics #universe #nothing

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil. ↗

— Theodor W. Adorno

#inertia #morality #triviality #metaphysics

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#environment #everyday #furniture #given #human

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#agreeable #allow #beach #does #eliminating

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 #deeply #difficult #inertia #infused

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#inertia #love #men #oppose #progress

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

— Will Rogers

#humor #inertia #inspirational #humor

I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#critics #else #encountered #few #having

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#inertia #motivation #love

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. ↗

— Max McKeown

#improvement #inertia #leadership #strategy #age