Quotes About Momentum

The present is a point just passed.

If we seek for the best times to act, we may missed some opportunities. We must seize every moment and make it great.

When time stops, life starts.

We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense.

No matter how big and tough a problem may be get rid of confusion by taking one little step toward solution. Do something.

Hurry! Go! Go!" Jack called to Morning

This book argues that evolution is happening all around us. It is the best way of understanding how the human world changes, as well as the natural world. Change in human institutions, artefacts and habits is incremental, inexorable and inevitable. It follows a narrative, going from one stage to the next; it creeps rather than jumps; it has its own spontaneous momentum

It follows a narrative, going from one stage to the next; it creeps rather than jumps; it has its own spontaneous momentum, rather than being driven from outside; it has no goal or end in mind; and it largely happens by trial and error – a version of natural selection.

We didn't come this far just to come this far

Two things were impossible to him: to stand still or to move aimlessly.

Life consist of motion with purpose

one moves step by step and one must keep moving.

I was convinced that the logic of healthcare reform was so obvious that even in the face of well-organized opposition I could rally the American people's support. Other big initiatives—like immigration reform and climate change legislation—would probably be even harder to get through Congress; I figured that scoring a victory on the item that most affected people's day-to-day lives was our best shot at building momentum for the rest of my legislative agenda.

Still, I couldn't shake the fear that Putin's way of doing business had more force and momentum than I cared to admit, that in the world as it was, many of these hopeful activists might soon be marginalized or crushed by their own government—and there'd be very little I could do to protect them.

It's easier to make something happen when you're already in motion.

If you want to create opportunities, you have to create movement.

Not a wind, not even a high, exactly, but an elevation. A sense that you had gone beyond yourself and could go farther still.

up the engines of all of them and began

the present moment. What can you get done today, tomorrow, or next week that will bring you that much closer to your final destination? See if you can project a bit and schedule just the first three steps on your list into your planning system. The rest will come later. Then go for it! Move ahead each day with the vision of that goal in mind and keep pressing forward.

Action is the answer.

The only difference between a rut and a grave is a few feet.

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

The present can change the past, and the future can change the present.