Quotes About Momentum

When I broke into the St Mirren team thing went pretty well for me and I managed to hit the ground running.

I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.

Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.

Chip maker Nvidia is the new old thing, an overnight success story years in the making that is having its moment and then some.

The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.

Successful ideas, they snowball.

And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

What I really lick my chops for is when you get the offensive rebounds at the end of the third quarter, fourth quarter. That really just sucks the life out of the opponent. You can see it in their face, especially when you're on the road, it just takes the whole energy out of the arena. That's what I live for.

The most joyful part of writing, for me, is when I am 90% there, and suddenly the story clicks into place, and things finally start to make sense.

I think the government lost control over fiscal policy in UPA-2. But it is possible to suggest that the momentum of the populism of UPA-1 did the damage when the economy slowed down, but government spending could not.

I imagine pretty much every analytics guy in football has offered a suggestion based on data, and the coach has probably gone a different way because of momentum or because he just doesn't trust the spreadsheet.

I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later...' I like things where the momentum of one action rolls into the next one so everything is the sum of that.

I thought I'd go away and make one album, but it was extended. The album did so well, and they wanted another album. I was on a high. You make hay while the sun shines, and I was doing it, and you think about yourself; that's what you do.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

Stand by for the lovely concussion.

So swift was the motion that her bedroom slippers were left standing on the stepladder rungs.

When the momentum of mindfulness is well developed, it works like a boomerang; even if we want to distract ourselves, the mind naturally rebounds to a state of awareness.

Gallagher hablaba muy deprisa. Todo aquello pasaba muy deprisa, desequilibrándolo. Y no había tomado nada más fuerte que cerveza en toda la noche. Lo único que le pasaba era que Hazel Jones se le había subido un poco a la cabeza.

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

There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.

Begin your writing, fiction or article, where the action begins. This action can be internal (e.g., an important insight or personal decision) or external (e.g., a murder or calamity). Begin too early, you lose your reader. Begin too late, you lose your story.

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

The train carries a lot of weight, but that doesn't stop it from moving forward.

He who would leap high must take a long run.