Quotes About Momentum

You can't go forward and backwards at the same time.

I say it time and time again: You have to do things with force and speed and pace.

It's crazy how fast time flies and how things progress.

When you get a groove going, time flies.

I think '300 Arguments' is a real tiny wallop of a book. It looks very slim, and at first, each little two-sentence or one-sentence thing kind of stands on its own, but again, as you read it, you get sucked into the momentum of it, and the whole of it is much larger than the sum of its parts in a really beautiful way.

Sometimes it's hard to start, but once it gets going, once you reach the tipping point - usually between chapter seven and nine - then it's like hanging onto a large snowball as it hurtles downhill.

I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.

I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired.

If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going. That doesn't mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100% from day one, but there's always small progress that can be made to start the movement.

A life can change in a single moment, and from there you simply move forward.

Every day something will happen, something new will come. And then, and then. She remembered this urgent push toward the next thing and the next.

the wild velocity of motherhood, an enforced momentum forbidding contemplation.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

It should never be a surprise that progress seems to slow as the finish line approaches, even if everyone is working just as hard as they were before.

That's the uncertainty principle. It's not that we can't know both quantities at the same time; it's just a fact about how wave functions work that if position is concentrated near some location, momentum is completely undetermined, and vice versa.

Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light.

At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface." "Crash." "Quite slowly." Face & Luke

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

Everything was happening all the time. You never needed television.

The only time people turned to watch her go by was when she hurtled past them as she fell.

They've come out at half time and gone bang.

We see which way the stream of time doth run.

I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward.

It's much easier . . . to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.