Quotes About Momentum

There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out.

We found out tonight how important and how crucial momentum swings can be. I thought we were playing very well. We were doing a lot of positive things but then we lost the puck two times in our zone and things swung their way. You can't afford to give teams momentum.

Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

To create is to boggle the mind and alter the mood. Once the urge has surged, it maintains its own momentum. We may go along for the ride, but when we attempt to steer the course, the momentum dies.

Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop.

Something must happen!

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

The way to get ahead is to start now.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

'300' was a real turning point in my career. Until then, I felt like a steam train that was slowly chugging to the top of a hill. Now I'm over that hill, my career seems to have its own momentum.

I lived my twenties on the road, in all different countries experiencing this momentum of a career which was taking off in its own way.

Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.

People might want to think, "We don't need it," but you know, we can't stop it. It's a movement, which means that it's moving, whether you like it or not, it's going to move.

I'm about to graduate senior year and I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't want to lose the momentum with what I'm doing now as an actress.

Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

Time has a certain current to it, and it wants to flow in a certain direction.

People don't want to commit until they have clarity, but clarity comes with movement.

When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing.

Take it slow, little by little. Remember, every small step you take now is adding to bigger change later. Change builds exponentially, with increasing momentum, multiplying on itself.

They also created huge balls made of paper and tin—some of them more than ten feet wide, covered with political slogans—and rolled them from town to town, symbolizing Harrison's growing momentum and adding the phrase "keep the ball rolling" to the American idiom.

That's the way it is--you have a thought, a dream, an idea in your head . . . and you do nothing to make it happen. Then one day, boom, just like that, you get up and go.