Quotes About Momentum

Self-pity is the real enemy and the source of man's misery. Without a degree of pity for himself, man could not afford to be as self-important as he is. However, once the force of self-importance is engaged, it develops its own momentum. And it is this seemingly independent nature of self-importance which gives it its fake sense of worth.

He swung himself onto

one step at a time he inched her toward the flickering fireplace, stopping at the bear rug in front of the stone hearth. She

You can have the stodgy mature months that plod along being all one thing or another. I've run my legs off trying to keep up with March and it's a privilege.

To me, as an audience member, movies always come to a screeching halt when they get to their action scenes. They always feel like they drag on to me.

After '8 Mile' came out and blew up, the ball has been rolling ever since.

All of a sudden, something began to stir within me, something began to push me, to prompt me. It was a movement that spoke like a voice. "What are you waiting for?" it said. "Why are you sitting here? Why do you still hesitate? You know what you ought to do? Why don't you do it?

Keep it bouncing, he'd told her once, that's all the secret, keep it bouncing.

A market need no longer be run by the Invisible Hand, but now could create itself-its own logic, momentum, style, from inside. Putting the control inside was ratifying what de facto had happened-that you had dispensed with God. But you had taken on a greater, and more harmful, illusion. The illusion of control. That A could do B. But that was false. Completely. No one can do. Things only happen, A and B are unreal, are names for parts that ought to be inseparable...

Hand in hand with Brenda whom he'd met yesterday, Profane ran down the street. Presently, sudden and in silence, all illumination in Valletta, houselight and streetlight, was extinguished. Profane and Brenda continued to run through the abruptly absolute night, momentum alone carrying them toward the edge of Malta, and the Mediterranean beyond

getting up and taking action. - Al Batt

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - William B. Sprague

Direction is not of any use to a person who is not moving. God

There is one more point to be made. The spirit of the age is in constant movement. It is like a river that flows on, invisibly but surely, and given the momentum of life in our century, even 10 years is a long time.

It's all happening!

Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.

That's all we can do, Brit. Take steps. Take enough of them and suddenly, you're somewhere.

Stop starting. Start finishing.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started." AGATHA CHRISTIE English author and playwright

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

War has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. You know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end

estoy a punto de lanzar todo mi peso contra una puerta y encontrar que está abierta de par en par.

The disappearance of Israel as a Zionist project, through war, cultural exhaustion or demographic momentum, is... plausible... Many Israelis see the demise of the country as not just possible, but probable.