Quotes About Momentum

in the intoxication of falling, man was prone to believe himself propelled upward.

As the Greek said, 'Give me a long enough lever... and I can move the earth'!

Writing's like running downhill; can't stop if you want to.

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.

Revolutions have their momentum, and once you join the current it is very difficult to escape the rapids. Revolutions are not solid gates through which nations pass but a force comparable to a storm that sweeps all before it. One of

So much of winning is waiting. The other part, though, is taking the shot when it comes. Unleashing all that momentum.

The Bomb gives me a quick grin.

Once you've hit a ball there's no point watching to see where it's going. You can't change its flight path now. You have to think about your next move. Not what you should have done. What you do now.

As soon as she left the attic, she was picked up and swept along by the fast-running current of her life.

Once you've hit a ball there's no point watching to see where it's going. You can't change its flight path now. You have to think about your next move. Not what you should have done. What you do now. She had

Hopped up in my car and told my chauffeur to the top.

Life is like riding a bike. It is impossible to maintain your balance while standing still.

The whirling wheels, that help us on our way, A lesson to the children, too, will say: "Go on! there's work awaiting you to-day; The whole world moves apace, you must not stay.

Well, I don't ever leave out details, in that I don't come up with information or description which I don't then use. I only ever come up with what seems to me absolutely essential to make the story work. I'm not usually an overwriter. As I revise, it's usually a matter of adding in as much vivid details as seem necessary to make the story come clear without slowing down the momentum of the story.

There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.

One of my philosophies of building companies is the importance of velocity.

Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity.

So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid investments. That is a recipe for disaster.

And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.

Well," I said, still waiting, "it all starts with Kraunauer." A good start: Debs nodded. "Okay," she said.

With most people suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon girls, the gun was loaded. A bullet for family abuse. A bullet for genetic predisposition. A bullet for historical malaise. A bullet for inevitable momentum. The two other bullets are impossible to name, but that doesn't mean the chambers were empty.

And when our lives do begin? I mean, the exacting part, the action? It's all so fast.

Apparently sprinters reach their highest speed right out of the blocks, and spend the rest of the race slowing down. The winners slow down the least. It's that way with most startups too. The earliest phase is usually the most productive. That's when they have the really big ideas. Imagine what Apple was like when 100% of its employees were either Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak.

A lot of things work better in a locomotive.