Quotes About Momentum

These close losses, when they stack up, two, three, four, five in a row, they change the tenor of a season.

Getting to the point where a cause goes from being a terribly daunting task with a handful of adherents to an acknowledged success with momentum and many allies is a rarity.

We have entered a new phase in Islamist terror. Fifteen years after 9/11, our enemies have regained their momentum.

Whenever I haven't known what to do, I've just tried to do what comes next

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. –Victor Hugo T

It is a conservation of momentum: what is diminished by time is augmented by the pencil. As the idea fades, the agitation around it has to increase to keep it alive; and as the scope of the architectural profession also reduces, the designer's visible impact on the object increases, as if to recall lost powers.

I wanted to stop and think, but the anxiety wouldn't let me. Do it now, do something now, do anything now. The drive to be doing, doing anything, was a pressing need that could not be denied.

Every man who could be found and trained had to be committed to the struggle for, even at the end of 1914, the notion that a lack of momentum could be compensated for by weight, or numbers, still held sway in military circles.

his get up and go had gone up and went

Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.

CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT

I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.

That's the spirit! Forward momentum. Mayhew snorted. Your forward momentum is going to lead all your followers over a cliff someday. He paused, beginning to grin. On the way down, you'll convince 'em all they can fly. He stuck his fists in his armpits, and waggled his elbows. Lead on, my lord. I'm flapping as hard as I can.

Achievement is devastating, or at least disorienting, and they don't warn you in advance. It's the sudden change of momentum and direction, I think.

Lois McMaster Bujold

We feel ourselves moving so minusculely against some process, some momentum, that we become inadvertently a part. We feel too small to fight. Desperation, laziness, horror--they all resemble one another in their flickering movements within us, the same thrashing shorthand. Ma cherie, is this our stop? We feel enslaved--is that what it is--in some turning: of milk to rot to dirt and winds and then to what--to sleep? to stars? Time for another constellation!

lighting a shuck.

Still, Tidewater pushed relentlessly ahead.

The past is what the present is doing now.

Having thought, I have acted, she thought. Let the arrow fly.

It's always good to get a goal on your first shift, but this was a game it seemed everything was going in.

Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.