Forward Momentum Quotes:

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

- Gayle Forman

source: Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.204, Penguin

topic: Regret, Momentum, Motto, Forward Momentum

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

- Holly Near

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Mistake, Forward Momentum

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

- Lois McMaster Bujold

topic: Momentum, Virtue, Dare, Balancing Act, Forward Momentum

My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn't matter if you're 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based data/metrics feedback loop to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That's why startups are agile. By the time a big company gets the committee to organize the subcommittee to pick a meeting date, your startup could have made 20 decisions, reversed five of them and implemented the fifteen that worked.

- Steve Blank

topic: Business, Data, What Matters, Loops, Forward Momentum

Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

source: Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Komarr”, p.144, Baen Books

topic: Momentum, Way, Strategy, Forward Momentum

Every day, possibly every hour as an entrepreneur, you do something that you absolutely could have done better with more time, more information, more experience, or more money - all luxuries you can't afford. So you do your best, and you move forward. The key is to see the forward momentum and not beat yourself up about how it could have been better.

- Jane Park

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Moving, Luxury, Keys, Forward Momentum

We've seen some good progress, some good forward momentum. We have about Republican senators who have now indicated that they'll meet with Judge Merric Garland.

- Denis McDonough

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Judging, Progress, Momentum, Judge Me, Forward Momentum

The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions.

- Sakyong Mipham

source: "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

topic: Our Actions, Momentum, Coming Out, Forward Momentum

Supernatural hasn't spent a lot of time on relationship stories, and this is a really nice mechanism to do that without imposing that on the forward momentum of these other stories that we're telling. In the writers' room we tend to say, "We're never going to be able to give a hell or Purgatory as good as people's imaginations," so the instinct is normally not to go there. But, we went the other way this year and said, "We are going to go there," because there's a really, really strong character thing going on down there.

- Jeremy Carver

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Strong, Nice, Character, Forward Momentum

With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I'm fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts with great forward momentum. Then there seems to be a period where it slows down a bit, and other things intervene. Then I gain momentum.

- Douglas Kennedy

topic: Book, Writing, Matter, Forward Momentum, Fretting

Catherine Land liked the beginnings of things. The pure white possibility of the empty room, the first kiss, the first swipe at larceny. And endings, she liked endings, too. The drama of the smashing glass, the dead bird, the tearful goodbye, the last awful word which could never be unsaid or unremembered. It was the middles that gave her pause. This, for all its forward momentum, this was a middle. The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.

- Robert Goolrick

source: Robert Goolrick (2010). “A Reliable Wife”, p.15, Algonquin Books

topic: Goodbye, Sweet, Drama, Larceny, Forward Momentum

She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I despised everything that might restrict my forward momentum. She knew that bullets have no conscience. They speed past things and miss their marks as often as they hit them.

- James Ellroy

topic: Past, Self, Missing, Forward Momentum

Greater is he who suffers through the pain and comes through the other side improved. Greater is he who accepts discouragement and keeps forward momentum, never retreating. Greater is he who sees the light at the end of the tunnel and keeps their eye on the light. Greater is he who gets knocked off his feet and gets back up, dusts himself off and gets back in the fight. Life is tough, but you are stronger.

- Rich Barnes

topic: Motivational, Pain, Eye, Light At The End Of The Tunnel, Forward Momentum

Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear.

- John Updike

topic: Writing, Should Have, Voice, Tumbling, Forward Momentum