Quotes About Momentum

He hit terminal velocity and kept accelerating

He hit terminal velocity and kept accelerating, speed

Though I feel like were only just about to get started. We wouldn't star over, we'd just start.

The mistake people make," Bingle said, "is thinking that there are different styles." "All right." "Force, balance, leverage, momentum—these principles never change. They are your style.

A market exchange has an equilibrium or stasis: you pay to balance the scale. But when you give a gift there is momentum, and the weight shifts from body to body.

If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses.

Action at the city level is what will make national momentum possible on our most urgent issues, and this is the level of government where we are closest to people, where we can innovate and move quickly. Most importantly, this is the level of government where we uniquely are in the position to earn the trust of our communities.

I think about myself as like an ocean liner that's been going full speed for a long distance, and the captain pulls the throttle back all the way to 'stop,' but the ship doesn't stop immediately, does it? It has its own momentum and it keeps on going, and I'm very flattered that people are still finding me useful.

In pre-election polling, momentum is more important than position, and in primary polling, national numbers are useless.

There's always a momentum in how users do stuff. Making small changes can have huge knock-on effects for whole companies.

When you go through a tournament of seven games, there are peaks and valleys. You kind of ride the players that are hot.

Football is a game of ebbs and flows, there's mountains and valleys through a full season, through a game, through a quarter, through a practice week.

I've come to understand that awareness and momentum, while necessary and valuable, are just two of the dozens of essential ingredients required to actually make change happen.

That is, the adoption of food production exemplifies what is termed an autocatalytic process—one that catalyzes itself in a positive feedback cycle, going faster and faster once it has started.

Even in a country at war, you forget war because the momentum of living is too great – until like a sullen beast it bares its face as if on a vicious whim, and you are reminded of the ease with which life can be extinguished.

Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open -- the only way to stop the story running away under its own momentum, often towards an ending no one wants.

London is perpetual; a constant streaming present hurrying towards a receding future.

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

There was that sense of we had turned the corner. All of that time, all of that work, all of that effort – we were poised to make that next jump.

As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.

I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.

When you're on a win streak, your confidence is high, and it means everything in your camp has been working and it means you're on the right track.

Strength is the ability to move really heavy objects. Power is the ability to move them faster and faster.

HSNi's performance gained momentum throughout 2014 as we executed on our strategic priorities across our business, by strengthening our customer file, optimizing our digital platform, and differentiating HSNi and our brands at content-rich, immersive commerce destination.