Quotes About Momentum

Never confuse movement with action. —Ernest Hemingway

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

Luck has a peculiar habit of connecting with the man on the move...

you have to leave something behind to go forward -Newton's Third Law of Motion

Around them small animals scampered along knotted cables and flaking vines, chirruping, squealing, venting yellow farts. Everywhere was animation, purpose, hurry. Momentum.

Success comes in waves.

Don't waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.

To separate the effects of gravity on a given mass from the effects of air resistance was a brilliant intellectual achievement. It allowed Galileo to close in on the essence of inertia and momentum. Still, in the real world, pendulums eventually do exactly what Aristotle's quaint paradigm predicted. They stop.

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

I am, a stride at a time

A tanker truck appeared far down the wavy surface of the highway, headlights on, its weight and shimmering cylindrical shape and dedicated purpose so great and unrelenting that it seemed to move and jitter against the sun's afterglow without sound or mechanically driven power, sustained by its own momentum, as though the truck had a destiny that had been planned long ago.

She was moving slowly, appearing to come no closer. Perhaps she was losing ground against the earth's rotation.

But history—a moving, organic network of causally related events—is hard to outwit or outflank. History embodies a logic and momentum of its own with resistances, rewards, and penalties. History soon outwitted the Whigs and left them in its dustbin.

The engines slapped against each other like two steel balls on a Newton's cradle, neither soft nor giving ground, just the savage brutal equalising momentum of physics that only the crushing and dissolving of metal could resolve

We're on our way. I don't know.

Almost faster than my eyes could follow, Angel snatched Celeste and leaped back up into the tree.

and another one was coming in behind me.

Talamas as she races through her

For the first time since 2007 there is political momentum behind fixing the immigration system. President Obama in his State of the Union speech reached out to the right-wing by saying illegal immigrants seeking citizenship will have to pay taxes, learn English and get in line behind people who are trying to enter the United States legally.

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

Unless you go forward then you are going back.

More women speaking up and seizing the helm of power can create its own momentum. It can change the culture that helps perpetuate those external forces.