Quotes About Momentum

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. —ALBERT EINSTEIN, IN A LETTER TO HIS SON EDUARD, FEBRUARY 5, 1930

Harvard professor I. Bernard Cohen has pronounced, "Franklin's law of conservation of charge must be considered to be of the same fundamental importance to physical science as Newton's law of conservation of momentum.

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

If you are facing in the right direction, all you need to do is keep on walking.

avoid procrastination and just begin from where we are, right here, right now.

Keep in mind that when you've reached the valley floor, the only direction you can go is upward.

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

Just remember, when you're over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

You have to recognize opportunity, no matter how subtle the knock. Everything doesn't happen at once. One thing leads to another as the building blocks of your life start to take form.

Day does not forestall nightmares - Night is not needed for dreams - There is no better time than here - No better place than now -

Most readily measure the inches and feet of life's ups and downs, but it is only the foot forward that really counts.

Without or­ganization, ideas, after some initial momentum, start losing their effect. They become routine, degenerate into conformity, and end up simply a memory. I raise this warning because too often, in this short but rich period of our revolution, many great initiatives have failed. They have been forgotten because of the lack of an organiza­tional apparatus needed to keep them going and bring them to frui­tion.

You can't wait for life to fall into place, sweetie," Bliss said, squeezing Susan's head between her hands. "Don't worry about the direction. Just move.

This is how you get unstuck. You reach.

Never confuse movement with action.

Life is like riding a bicycle; we can keep from falling if we keep moving. Only a few trick-riders can stand still and not tumble.

"I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you."

Did there come a point, beyond which we no longer look forward to something coming,but only to getting away from what had passed?

If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress.

There's always one more thing you can do to influence any situation in your favor—and after that one more thing, and after that…. The more you do the more opportunities arise.

is often when night looks darkest, that one senses the gathering momentum for change.

There's nothing you can do about where the pieces are," he'd say. "It's only your next move that matters.

where you're going, you rush around busily. It gives the impression of action. What more could