Quotes About Momentum

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.

I don't see myself as someone who's ever going to be defined by one moment. It's on to the next.

You learn that in so many of our matches, it can all depend on just four or five points.

You have to break clean. If you miss the break in the Derby, it's over.

Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.

Sometimes you're running toward your target so hard that you don't stop to reassess.

Hogan began when tastes were changing and people were moving away from clothes that were not so formal: Hogan caught the right moment.

Politics is motion." John Sears

I sense that I am dawdling in this narrative, having already reached my eighth roll of Hieratica, and need to speed it up a little, else either I shall die on the job, or you will be worn out reading.

The only thing to do, as it had been from the beginning, was to keep moving. Keep moving, and not think. Thinking was dangerous, he knew.

They lived with the intensity of two people aware that change would come. And when it came, it would come quickly; so there were things to talk about which could not be avoided any longer.

Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum. Some channel deepening seems called for.

Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

Action always beats inaction.

Tindakan selalu mengalahkan ketiadaan tindakan.

This invisible force is the greatest of all leverage

on scene execution] Interesting isn't the point...storytelling momentum and relevance is .

I'd want to remember how I had felt sitting here—to take it with me, this sense of relief I knew we were both feeling, the quietly growing momentum that eventually I'd understand comes from letting go of the things you were holding on too tightly to in the first place.

I like to think it's another way of saying great things tend to happen all at once.

Never interrupt when you're winning.

In the great quietness of these winter evenings there is one clock: the sea. Its dim momentum in the mind is the fugue upon which this writing is made. Empty cadences of sea-water licking its own wounds, sulking along the mouths of the delta, boiling upon those deserted beaches– empty, forever empty under the gulls: white scribble on the grey, munched by clouds.

I suppose events are simply a sort of annotation of our feelings--the one might be deduced from the other. Time carries us (boldly imagining that we are discrete ego's modeling our own personal futures)--time carries us forward by the momentum of those feelings inside us of which we ourselves are least conscious.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.