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law of inertia

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Procrastination acts like the law of inertia: "an object at rest stays at rest a unless acted upon by an unbalanced force." It takes action to overcome procrastination.
According to Newton's first law of motion, also known as the Law of Inertia, an object at rest stays at rest unless acted upon by another force.
The law of inertia is that an object in motion stays in motion and an object at rest stays at rest.
In talk therapy, the law of inertia works against us--the longer we sit there feeling stuck, the more stuck we get.
Sylvester's classical law of inertia states that two Hermitian matrices A, B [member of] [C.sup.nxn] are congruent (i.e., A = [S.sup.H]BS for some nonsingular matrix S) if and only if they have the same inertia In(A) = In(B).
In addition, there were plenty of core issues involving the very institution that he led, which showed no sign of being subject to the law of inertia. On the contrary, metaphorically speaking, he was forced to occupy the centre of a circle - and then maintain the contour - when the periphery had been taking geometrically inconsistent outline.
No matter the reason, the only way out of it is to realise nothing will move unless you make it - the law of cause and affect states that for every action there is an equal or opposite and the law of inertia tells you someone or something doesn't want things to change.
The First Law of Motion is the law of inertia: "A body remains at rest, or if in motion, it remains in uniform motion with constant speed in a straight line, unless it is acted on by an unbalanced external force."
According to Kant, This mechanical law alone must be called the law of inertia (lex inertiae); the law that every action has an equal and opposite reaction cannot bear this name.
Ernst Mach (1838-1916) and Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753) proposed that the law of inertia depended on all the matter of the universe.