Quotes About Momentum

We found out tonight how important and how crucial momentum swings can be. I thought we were playing very well. We were doing a lot of positive things but then we lost the puck two times in our zone and things swung their way. You can't afford to give teams momentum.

If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clearly recognize as reasonable, they will always find the next step more easy both to see and take.

Our purpose, like a ball, was designed to have more momentum than to be at a standstill.

Once you're on the pleasure express, it's hard to get off and switch to another, slower service.

Look back at history - those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.

The first time you do anything, people always take a minute to try to figure it out, but once you witness it in person, the word starts to spread and it gains momentum year after year.

There's no time to waste. Every day, there needs to be movement on something.

You will have wonderful surges forward. Then there must be a time of consolidating before the next forward surge. Accept this as part of the process and never become downhearted.

Things take a long time, but when it's right things move fast.

Action is the only way to make progress. Take action now; don't wait for a convenient time. It can't be overemphasized.

We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.

One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.

Think chest/hips/ push, or CHP, when it's time for uphill running. Chest up, hips forward, push strongly off each foot.

We can't afford to waste time going slow on changing our party so now is not the time to put our foot on the brake. Now is the time to press on the accelerator.

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.

No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.

If there was time on the clock there was a chance.

The revolution is like a bicycle. When the wheels don't turn, it falls.

You know, said Al in a daze of hunger and cold, when you see this, you realize that despite all the crap that goes on in the cities, despite all the words and accusations, the country has balance and momentum. The whole thing is symmetrical and beautiful; it works. The cities are like bulbs on a Christmas tree. They may bum, swell, and shatter, but the green stays green. Look at it, he said, eyes fixed on the horizon, not unmoved by the motion of the train. Look at it. It's alive.

There is no tomorrow, only a string of todays. Still

Life is like a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.