Quotes About Momentum

First six overs are important because if you put runs on board, it will take the pressure off the other batsmen.

There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.

Everyone has a supremely low moment somewhere along the AT, usually when the urge to quit the trail becomes almost overpowering. The irony of my moment was that I wanted to get back on the trail and didn't know how. I hadn't lost just Katz, my boon companion, but my whole sense of connectedness to the trail. I had lost my momentum, my feeling of purpose. In the most literal way I needed to find my feet again.

which state, very baldly, that a thing moves in the direction in which it is pushed; that it will keep moving in a straight line until some other force acts to slow or deflect it; and that every action has an opposite and equal reaction)

Mattis was a student of historian Barbara Tuchman's book The Guns of August about the outbreak of World War I. "He's obsessed with August 1914," one official said, "and the idea that you take actions, military actions, that are seen as prudent planning, and the unintended consequences are you can't get off the war train." A momentum to war builds, "and you just can't stop it.

Il poussa la porte. Elle lui rendit brutalement sa poussée et il entra par la vitrine, sans insister.

Speed, surprise, and overwhelming violence of action.

no...there was time now.

I must take action of some sort whilst the courage of the day is upon me.

I cannot undo myself, and the train is steaming.

They don't have to be big goals. A small one each day. They're like handholds and toeholds as you climb the bigger mountain. Ultimately, you will get to the top of the mountain, but in the moment you only need to focus on the next ledge.

Sometimes in life, we all need a little nudge to get us moving in the right direction. If we ignore it, we're likely to get a shove.

Chapter breaks are not so readers have a place to stop reading; they're the breath to take before the roller coaster plummets down the hill

The ride is far from over.

When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.

Soon after the 1997 election, I argued that there was no inverse law of political gravity which said that everything which went down had to come back up.

Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

The first step binds one to the second.

Motivation gets you started, and inspiration keeps you going."

Life was about momentum . Pick a direction and don't let anything—man or storm— turn you aside.

All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline.

The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.

This was life. This was control. Gavilar had been the leader, the momentum, and the essence of their conquest. But Dalinar had been the warrior. Their opponents had surrendered to Gavilar's rule, but the Blackthorn—he was the man who had scattered them, the one who had dueled their leaders and slain their best Shardbearers.