Quotes About Momentum

A woman of wire had laid herself down, her scream traveling the street, till it fell sideways like a rolling coin starved of momentum.

It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.

It's a lot easier, she realised, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.

Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving. I'm not the station, I'm not the stop: I'm the train. I'm the train.

But what is great can only begin great.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

Indeed, by the end of a turbulent decade there was a new quality to Negro life. The Negro was no longer a subject of change; he was the active organ of change. He powered the drive. He set the pace.

Things are always easier when imagination ceases and action begins

Now, Chiyo, stumbling along in life is a poor way to proceed. You must learn how to find the time and place for things.

of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

omnis motus, quo celerior, eo magis motus.

Although it had attracted wide interest across the country and had grown rapidly

A body in motion tends to stay in motion. (reebok,chiat/day.)Just do it. (Nike, Weiden and Kennedy.)Dammit something just isn't right. (Me, to my bathroom mirror at four thirty in the morning when I'm plastered.)

Time marches on

When the train stopped, when she got off and heard the concrete of the platform under her heels, she felt light, lifted, impelled to action. She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.

Stage 3 top as the upward advance loses momentu m and starts to trend sideways.

As you see the opening get closer, you just can't get fast enough. And finally, just when you think you'll never get there, you see the opening right in front of you.

Things just keep going.

failure at one point could throw the momentum out of balance and result in chaos. All in that room were aware

In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.

They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

The world has moved on,' we say... we've always said. But it's moving on faster now. Something has happened to time.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step unless you missed it.