Quotes About Momentum

Because Control knew that belief in a scientific process only took you so far. The ziggurats of illogic erected by your average domestic terrorist as he or she bought the fertiliser or made a detonator took on their own teetering momentum and power. When those towers crashed to the earth, they still existed whole in the perpetrator's mind, and everyone else's too – just for different reasons.

Statt Stunden, Tage oder Jahre darauf zu verschwenden, den optimalen nächsten Schritt auszuklügeln, TUN Sie einfach was.

But all we need to do is begin. The rest will take care of itself. A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

all we need to do is begin. The rest will take care of itself. A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

Zodra Alisa eenmaal een onderwerp had aangesneden, kreeg je haar ongeveer net zo makkelijk van haar spoor als een hogesnelheidstrein.

There's nothing like speed for getting out of your own head—and out of your own way.

Don't go into great detail describing places and things… You don't want descriptions that bring the action, the flow of the story, to a standstill.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Now here I am, seventeen with a bullet.

a small spark can start a great fire

and immediately

Action is a unifier.

The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.

Majority has no brain. It is just a momentum. Always recheck majority with morality.

Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.

I could see the genius in allowing future to evolve. You could create momentum. You could launch something and see where it goes. You couldn't line everything up, like so many dominoes, and make everything fall into place.

Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces—forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago. Decisions, especially bad ones, create their own kind of momentum, and momentum can be a bitch to stop, as every athlete knows.

Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces - forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago. Decisions, especially bad ones, create their own kind of momentum, and momentum can be a bitch to stop, as every athlete knows. Even when we vow to change, even when we sorrow and atone for our mistakes, the momentum of our past keeps carrying us down the wrong road. Momentum rules the world.

And yet. Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces—forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago. Decisions, especially bad ones, create their own kind of momentum

It was a great time here in the States this year, and definitely I feel like I'm playing well again. I gained a lot of confidence in the last couple of weeks, and I just have to, you know, keep going and keep the momentum now.

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.

If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens.

The abolition of the double sanction for a foul in the box is a welcome change. There are times that you cannot help but stop your opponent in the box, with your momentum forcing you to make a challenge. Fouls can't be avoided in that situation but your intention was fair.