Quotes About Momentum

successful in rapidly scaling the learning curve, building key relationships, and getting early wins,

Third, based on your first-cut conclusions about strategic priorities, identify a few ways to achieve early wins and build momentum.

Your overriding goal in getting up to speed and taking charge is to generate momentum by creating virtuous cycles, and to avoid getting caught in vicious cycles that damage your credibility. Leadership ultimately is about influence and leverage.

What will it take for you to reach the break-even point more quickly? What are some traps you might encounter, and how can you avoid them? What can you do to create virtuous cycles and build momentum in your new role? What types of transitions are you experiencing? Which are you finding most challenging, and why?

But if you dig yourself into a hole early on, you will face an uphill battle from that point forward.

The time for change is when it can no longer be resisted. In other words, when you have a man by the balls and are pulling hard, he will invariably follow in your footsteps.

The purpose of page one is to convince the reader to read page two. The purpose of page two is to convince the reader to read page three, and so on and so on.

Once an innovation reaches a certain level of popularity, its success is virtually assured. By the same token, great innovations can fail because the domino effect doesn't kick in.15

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

Once a certain historical momentum is created I don't think it can be stopped.

Eighty miles an hour, velocity becomes the measure of our progress, the speed of forgetting.

Still, he thought, there was no luck at all in standing still. The

there are so many ways to move forward and only one way to stand still.

He told me we had to "move forward," which is a term that I've never understood. The planet turns. Time passes. We move forward even when we're standing still.

life is about getting the next footstep right.

The milk float has pulled out of a parking space and is only travelling a few miles per hour, but I'm in full flight and still in midair. I clip the front corner nearside mudguard and it feels like the entire All Black front row had driven me into the tarmac.

Yes, photons impart momentum despite having less mass than a lapsed Catholic.)

I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward.

action makes all the difference. (Chapter 1)

The closer it came the more speed it gathered about it, until suddenly it was tearing a great hole right through the day.

that line that balances Paralysis of Analysis against the Nike slogan "Just Do It.

If you have absolutely no idea of which direction to move in, move in any direction.

If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward.

What is it like to feel Tao? It is an effortless flowing, a sweeping momentum.