Quotes About Momentum

We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense.

The past is gone—the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I.

The gate was shut, and he didn't bother fumbling for the latch but seized it with both hands and vaulted over, feeling an absurd rush of fierce pleasure in the feat.

into view, trundling slowly under

I would like to establish myself. I don't want to just have a moment.

Minute by minute. I'm bounding with it. Where are we going? Anywhere we want. I realize the power and the potential of that. Absolutely anywhere.

Have a bias toward action – let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away

One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There's always something just ahead.

when you have something to do life will not allow you to move foward until you do it.

You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute.

Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

There is no time in prison, unless you create it for yourself. People on the outside seem to believe time passes slowly in prison, but it doesn't. The truth is that time doesn't pass at all. It's an eternal vacuum, and each moment is meaningless because it has no context. Tomorrow may as well be yesterday. That's why there's so much stagnation inherent in prison life - because there is no momentum of any sort.

Life without momentum is not truly life. A person needs movement, or they eventually begin to forget that they even exist.

Politics was not just about winning the election, it was about winning decisively--having the momentum to carry out one's vision. Historically, any president who squeaked into office on a narrow margin accomplished much less; he was weakened right out of the gate, and Congress never seemed to let him forget it.

Don't wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something.

An object in motion will stay in motion, and an object at rest will stay at rest, unless acted on by an outside force.

Instead, they spent considerable time accomplishing almost nothing—until they experienced a surge of activity that always came at "the temporal midpoint" of a project.14

Motivation comes in spurts—which is why Stanford psychologist B. J. Fogg recommends taking advantage of "motivation waves" so you can weather "motivation troughs.

It's always helpful to pick our fans' brains to see what their favorite videos are and to figure out what the momentum of our channel is. Not just based on views or likes or dislikes, but anecdotally.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind.

The supply chain industry in our Commonwealth continues to gain momentum, in large part due to The Port of Virginia's unparalleled infrastructure.