Quotes About Momentum

I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue.

The idea with a collection is sort of to begin with a kind of bang.

As a competitor, when you have a bad play, all you want is to get the ball again and get going.

I always loved the two-minute drill since I was a little kid. The pressure's on you to make a play, so whenever I get in there, I want to make sure that I start the drive off with a completion and then start getting balls down the field.

When you concede in less than two minutes, it changes completely everything.

The concern is that when you are playing against a team that has a lot of quality you know that you can work hard for a long time and then in a second they can produce some quality necessary to score a goal.

In animation, action is changing so quickly that there's really not a lot of suspended moments.

I was hedging my bets with university. I always wanted to do music, it was just about waiting for the point when I could confidently say 'okay, I reckon there's enough momentum behind this thing to sustain myself.'

Usually when you get on the sweet spot of the bat, you don't really feel it.

I look at being a capitalist businessperson like riding a bike - if I go too slowly, I'll fall over. Or it's kind of like a shark: if I stop swimming, I'll just die.

When I fought Kampmann, something happened in that fight and to me, it's still the most epic moment in my career. I was losing and something happened and I flipped a switch.

Success is like a lightning bolt. It'll strike you when you least expect it, and you just have to keep the momentum going. You have to strike when the iron is hot. So for me, I just kept striking and striking to polish out the sword that I was making.

I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort. Some people get a jump on the morning in other ways—

nature has arranged that when you overcome a given inertia the resulting momentum is proportionate. If I were to begin borrowing money I would end by devising means of persuading the Secretary of the Treasury to lend me the gold reserve.

A mighty, eternal and incomprehensible force pushes us all forward. But while all are so being pushed, many linger and look back. Unconsciously, they oppose this force.

ever. Today I saw our revolution more solid and invincible than ever.

Synapses in motion tend to stay in motion. Synapses at rest tend to stay at rest.

And for once i didn't look back.

Even if I do attain some goal, at that very moment the only thing that's important to me is to go beyond that which is no longer a goal but now only a stage.

Action creates/a taste/for itself.

The present is the point of power.

Because our power is motivating, and gives momentum and ownership of changes to those who dream of failure.

We may not have the power to change, but we have the power to move.

So long as you are going in the right direction then the speed of your travel is unimportant.