Daley Thompson

If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.

English Athlete

John Kenneth Galbraith

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.

American Economist

Jordan Peterson

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

Canadian Psychologist

Erik Brynjolfsson

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.

American Educator

Simon Travaglia

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.

Author

Deepak Chopra

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.

American Speaker

Andrew Mason

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.

American Businessman

Elbert Hubbard

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

American Writer

Henri Bergson

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

French Philosopher

Maurice Strong

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

Canadian Businessman

Inertia refers to how real-world objects continue moving; think of sliding on ice.

Real-life Motion

Inertia can describe situations or trends that persist over time without specific efforts to change them.

Non-physical Application

Inertia involves resistance to changes in speed or direction, often unexpectedly.

Unexpected Resistance

Inertia metaphorically describes reluctance to alter habits or views in humans or society.

Resistance to Change

Inertia can signify a stagnant or unproductive state in groups or organizations.

Organizational Stagnation

In physics, inertia explains why moving objects continue at the same pace when unopposed.

Consistent Movement

Only an external force like friction or a collision can change inertial motion.

External Force Impact

Use inertia with care in physics; it's a foundational concept, not to be confused with momentum.

Technical Context

 So a simple geometrical system that kind of coordinates a bit the internal movement of the segments. A second property of cat limbs is that they are very lightweight. Most of the muscles are in the trunk, which is a good idea, because then the limbs have low inertia and can be moved very rapidly. The last final important property is this very elastic behavior of the cat limb,

A robot that runs and...

 But I believe that the inertia of the existing borders that we have today is far worse and far more violent. The question is how do we change those borders, and what lines do we focus on? I believe we focus on the lines that cross borders, the infrastructure lines. Then we'll wind up with the world we want, a borderless one.

Parag Khanna maps the...

 two perfectly forming rings of stars a central ring and an outer ring the outer ring made of stars of a slightly larger size therefore they'll be heavier and when they burst in the middle ignites these stars and blows them in the circle formation the inertia of the heavier larger stars will travel further thus in

Fireworks PIPE I Didn't...

 is shown to help you save more. Researchers believe that passive systems like this are successful, because they work with our tendency towards inertia. You don't have to manually initiate each subsequent transfer, and you won't be tempted to hold back a bit every time you make a savings transfer.

A simple 2-step plan for...

 want to be free, and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner, even for the poorest of the poor -- facts that can challenge cynicism and the apathy that leads to inertia, facts that tell us what's working and, more importantly, what's not, so we can fix it,

Bono: The good news on...

 the robot naturally becomes agile. So here, R is the characteristic length of the robot. It's actually half the diameter. And there are lots of physical parameters that change as you reduce R. The one that's most important is the inertia, or the resistance to motion.

Robots that fly ... and...

 In fact, this approach of using the citizen to trigger motivation is not even limited to public health systems. I sincerely believe that if there is any public system, in any country, that is in inertia, then we need to bring back the motivation.

How motivation can fix...

 the corner even for the poorest of the poor facts that can challenge cynicism and the apathy that leads to inertia facts that tell us what's working and more importantly what's not so we can fix it facts that if we hear them and heed them

The good news on poverty...

 another aspect of our lives which I find fascinating is this need in which our lives are evolving from the speed of the body to the speed of consumption to the economy and inertia the next project starts off with the crystallized moment

My life as an outsider PIPE...

 which means that Congress's inertia is on our side if we want reform. And we can pressure our representatives to actually implement important reforms to this law and protect our data from this redirection and misuse.

Inertia

Real-life Motion

Non-physical Application

Unexpected Resistance

Compare with

Never forget "Inertia"

WordUp Chrome Extension