Quotes and Sayings About Momentum
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For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.
-- Adam Braun -
For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.
-- Adam Braun -
But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.
-- Aimee Mann -
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.
-- Alan Autry -
In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
-- Alan Greenspan -
Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
For me, every sound has its own minute form - is composed of small flashing rhythms, shifting tones, has momentum, comes, vanishes, lives out its own structure.
-- Annea Lockwood -
We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it.
-- Barry Alvarez -
He's marked his entrance with an error of some momentum
-- Barry Davies -
No actor forgets the times he couldn't get a job. I think everyone doing this operates from that fear. You don't want that momentum to stop when you get it
-- Ben Affleck -
The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation.
-- Ben Bernanke -
Three or four plays cause the momentum to shift. We turned it over and gave Baylor a cheap score.
-- Bill Vaughan -
In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.
-- Bill Vaughan -
I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue. If it does, I can feel a sense of momentum - the poem finds a reason for continuing.
-- Billy Collins -
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
-- Brian May -
Develop and maintain momentum by working continuously toward your sales goals every day.
-- Brian Tracy -
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.
-- Charlie Munger -
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.
-- Christopher Bond -
Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt; there's pressure to keep the momentum up.
-- David Nicholls -
Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.
-- Earl Weaver -
The truth is that momentum, in the sense in which we are discussing, is a feeling, and if it's a feeling, that means we have the ability to have it on our side at all times if we so choose.
-- Eric Thomas -
The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.
-- Erica Jong -
Isn't success ridiculously easy, once it begins to succeed? ... after the strain and sweat and pushing until the very groins of your being shrieked protest, something like momentum happened. It took your wits and your concentration and your continued willing sweat, of course, to keep it going, but the success of success had ball bearings.
-- Fannie Hurst -
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
-- Frances E. Willard -
When discs form around stars, there is interaction of angular momentum between disc, planets and parent star, and this interaction affects the rotation of the parent star, and that will affect the lithium abundance.
-- Garik Israelian -
Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.
-- Gayle Forman -
The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum.
-- George C. Marshall -
The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.
-- Gregory Maguire -
I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of momentum. And I don't mean this in a derogatory way. I'm always wanting it to pick up momentum, and I'm wondering if that's even possible.
-- Guy Pearce