Momentum Quotes

Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa.

Demand and supply are the opposite extremes of the beam, whence depend the scales of dearness and cheapness; the price is the point of equilibrium, where the momentum of the one ceases, and that of the other begins.

Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.

At a time when the insurgents are saying that time is working against them, my Democratic colleagues are introducing a measure to set a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq that will undercut the momentum that the insurgents themselves say we have built in Iraq.

Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.

If travel has momentum and wants to stay in motion, as I mentioned earlier, then adventure has the gravitational pull of a black hole. The more you do it, the more you find a way to keep doing it.

Build confidence and momentum with each good decision you make from here on out and choose to be inspired.

The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum.

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.

The whole mass of any body is just the mass of ether surrounding the body which is carried along by the Faraday tubes associated with the atoms of the body. In fact, all mass is mass of the ether; all momentum, momentum of the ether; and all kinetic energy, kinetic energy of the ether, This view, it should be said, requires the density of the ether to be immensely greater than that of any known substance.

Excitement must lead to immediate action or you will lose the power of momentum. More dreams die because we fail to seize the moment. Do it now!

The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them you immediately begin to create momentum.

Keep moving ahead because action creates momentum, which in turn creates unanticipated opportunities.

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up or persisting.

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.

But be very, very careful, because when you're playing with momentum, you're playing with fire.

When a long-term trend loses it’s momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise. It is easy to see why that should be so: the trend-following crowd is disoriented.

The basic concept of value to a private owner and being motivated when you're buying and selling securities by reference to intrinsic value instead of price momentum - I don't think that will ever be outdated.

There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.

I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

Knock out a small debt first so you get a quick win. Momentum is key.

Consistency is the key to achieving and maintaining momentum.

If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.

If I find something I like, I'll chase it and see what comes out the other side. Once a song gets momentum and gets away from you, that's a good sign.

The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much.

The rhythm of daily action aligned with your goals creates the momentum that separates dreamers from super-achievers .

The momentum now is inevitable. Now it's about each of us individually arranging the furniture of our own mind to deal with what has become inevitable.

Our nature is to worship, but unless that element is directed towards God it becomes "a senseless impersonal force, carrying us away in its momentum. It becomes a search for ecstasy - no matter what kind achieved through destruction...The worshipful integraton of nature in the person is inverted in a hellish imprisonment of the individual in nature."

The momentum of time is always going forward. You cannot repeat what has been done before. You can't go back.

Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.

We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.

Develop and maintain momentum by working continuously toward your sales goals every day.

There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.

But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that.

I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change.

I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later...' I like things where the momentum of one action rolls into the next one so everything is the sum of that.

Most companies don't die because they are wrong; they die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their momentum and their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is standing still.

The minute you feel like you've completed something you lose that momentum. I've learned how to avoid that. That's the bottom line.

From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band

In a good meeting there is a momentum that comes from the spontaneous exchange of fresh ideas and produces extraordinary results. That momentum depends on the freedom permitted the participants.

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is in a direction that allows terrible follies to happen, and the terrible follies have terrible consequences.

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.