Top 99 Quotes About Momentum
#1. We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.
Jeff Cooper
#2. All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum, gathering momentum, so it is taking you in the opposite direction. Whatever you do to be free from the self also is a self-centred activity.
U.G. Krishnamurti
#3. 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.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#4. When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.
Suzy Kassem
#5. Nature has arranged that when you overcome a given inertia the resulting momentum is proportionate. If I were to begin borrowing money I would end by devising means of persuading the Secretary of the Treasury to lend me the gold reserve.
Rex Stout
#6. Momentum is whatever your attitude determines it to be.
Lou Holtz
#7. The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.
Gregory Maguire
#8. While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.
John C. Maxwell
#9. I would like to know who thinks this heart is worth one million dollars. Or maybe, I already do. A low murmur builds, rolling from the back of the room, gaining momentum as the crowd parts. I hold my breath, and
Sarah Castille
#10. Towards the end of the seventies pop was gaining the momentum and respectability was very high with groups like Yes and Queen who were making "classical" rock records. They were also bringing in big bucks. So the eighties became the "bottom line" decade.
Tony Visconti
#11. So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid investments. That is a recipe for disaster.
Fred Wilson
#12. [on scene execution] Interesting isn't the point ... storytelling momentum and relevance is.
Larry Brooks
#13. Develop and maintain momentum by working continuously toward your sales goals every day.
Brian Tracy
#14. 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.
Terence McKenna
#15. Goals not only help you develop initial motivation by making your dreams obtainable, but they also help you continue to be motivated and that creates momentum.
John C. Maxwell
#16. Take it slow, little by little. Remember, every small step you take now is adding to bigger change later. Change builds exponentially, with increasing momentum, multiplying on itself.
Susan Rose Blauner
#17. Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.
Earl Weaver
#18. It is human nature to be shortsighted and to lose momentum to make changes once the story is out of the headlines and there aren't financial incentives or political rewards. We owe to ourselves to learn from the past so we can try to do better.
Sheri Fink
#19. Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.
Bryant H. McGill
#20. Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the Americans.
John Lahr
#21. "Growth!" is not a Hedgehog Concept. Rather, if you have the right Hedgehog Concept and make decisions relentlessly consistent with it, you will create such momentum that your main problem will not be how to grow, but how not to grow too fast.
James C. Collins
#22. Don't get bogged down with all the details of how it's going to come together. Just do the dishes. And watch the momentum build.
Brian J. White
#23. The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.
Rian Johnson
#25. Momentum and growth are the lifeblood of startups. This is probably in the top three secrets of executing well.
Sam Altman
#26. Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.
Lauren DeStefano
#27. Frustration comes from fighting your own momentum.
Walter Kirn
#28. There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
Aga Khan IV
#29. If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.
Michael Korda
#30. As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.
Colm Meaney
#31. Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
Aimee Mullins
#32. I'm about to graduate senior year and I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't want to lose the momentum with what I'm doing now as an actress.
Kaitlyn Dever
#33. Getting a project started is like moving a ship. It takes a lot of energy to build up momentum.
Susan Collins
#34. A hardware startup with a lot of funding and a lot of momentum has a lot less risk.
Brendan Iribe
#35. When we're down and the momentum is stacked against us. Those are the moments when we find out what we're made of. When we learn to trust and lean on each other.
Charles Martin
#36. 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.
Dennis Brown
#37. We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.
Bill Vaughan
#38. beliefs create or constrain possibilities, desires lead to preferences among them, and intentions represent commitments to specific courses of action. Each of the primitive elements can evolve in time, which is why mental models have momentum.
Venkatesh G. Rao
#39. What will really release the kundalini is creating a stillness in your life. This stillness will come about through deep caring and introspection. It will come about slowly and then quickly - it builds momentum.
Frederick Lenz
#40. Failure at one point could throw the momentum out of balance and result in chaos. All in that room were aware
Stephen E. Ambrose
#41. Living life intensely has a momentum and exhilaration of its own. Thinking about events you have experienced, and developing perspective about them, in some way completes, and finding words to express them gives perspective and bring about a sense of closure.
Bill Bradley
#42. I tend to prefer the smaller movies because they shoot more efficiently and so you're are able to maintain that momentum of the character a little more easily.
Jesse Eisenberg
#43. In order to build continuity and momentum in the meditation practice, you will need to keep reminding yourself to come back to the breath over and over again, no matter what the mind is up to from one moment to the next.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#44. Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.
Marlon Brando
#45. Our biggest success lies in admitting to our failures and correcting them..A side of success people often miss..
Deal with this in the mental personal space..
Fast forward your momentum and thereby success..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#46. The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to another ... .No. It wasn't dishonesty. I think it was wish fulfillment and social momentum. Assumptions, made but not verified, were taught as fact.
Lynn Margulis
#48. The momentum of all those wheels are too great for one person's passionate will.
K. Melissa Kennedy
#49. 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.
George Soros
#50. Barack Obama has injected fresh momentum into efforts - stalled for a decade - to bring about nuclear disarmament.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#51. Your most stable beliefs, the ones that actually modulate your behavior, aren't about life purposes; they are about momentum management. You are more likely to switch religions than to switch from an impatient to a patient temperament.
Venkatesh G. Rao
#52. More than once, the broken moon would cast through the window a silver light and remind me of independent events yielding to their own momentum and interacting under natural laws while my mind would impose happiness, grief, beauty, ruin, justice and chaos.
Leonard Seet
#53. The attachment to a rationalistic, teleological notion of progress indicates the absence of true progress; he whose life does not unfold satisfyingly under its own momentum is driven to moralize it, to set up goals and rationalize their achievement as progress.
John Carroll
#55. Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.
Robert Greene
#56. When we can get the incidence of HIV down enough to turn the trajectory of the pandemic, it will assume a momentum of its own in diminishing HIV.
Anthony Fauci
#57. I'm obviously coming out of the Australian summer with amazing momentum, knowing I can pretty much hang in there with anybody and even beat some of the best players. So for me, it's definitely a good feeling, I think.
Sloane Stephens
#58. We, more than others, should carry jumper and tow cables not only in our cars, but also in our hearts, by which means we can send the needed boost or charge of encouragement or the added momentum to mortal neighbors.
Neal A. Maxwell
#59. It's hard getting momentum riding a bike up hill... It's hard getting momentum when you're dragging around all the pain from your past.
Tony Curl
#60. 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
#61. He took a deep breath. "I'm a weak man, Navani. I really am. If I give myself a few feet of leeway, I burst through all of my prohibitions. The momentum of following the Codes these years after Gavilar's death is what keeps me strong. If I let a few cracks into that armor, I might return to the
Brandon Sanderson
#62. If the setups take too long, you wind up losing momentum. Momentum is very good for comedy. Not having to do eight setups in a single scene and have it take five hours is very good for comedy.
Michael Spiller
#63. Peace is but the absence of war. War and conflict form the sea through which nation-states swim. Some who have had the fortune to find clear, calm waters believe otherwise. They have forgotten that war is momentum. War is natural. And war makes one strong.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#64. What I learned was that the more you commit to the process and the more you trust God for increase in every area of your life, the more God allows the scales to tip in your favor until one day the momentum is so tremendous that there is no going back to the life you knew. You
John W. Gray III
#65. 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
#66. Peace is not a state - it is a choice, and you have to remake it every day. It's possible to get a sort of stability, a habit of peace, but it's like an egg balanced, spinning, on its point: lose your momentum, and your equilibrium is gone, too.
Nick Harkaway
#67. Stupidity, once it overcomes its initial state of inertia, is sustained by its own momentum.
Nana Awere Damoah
#68. Sometimes it's very difficult to keep momentum when it's you that you are following. - Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber
#69. I think now Somalia is turning a corner and we can, with the new political development, build on momentum - really build a peaceful future.
Jan Egeland
#70. The secularizing 'values' and events that have been predicted would happen in the Muslim world have now begun to unfold with increasing momentum and persistence due still to the Muslims' lack of understanding of the true nature and implications of secularization as a philosophical program.
Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas
#71. Mobs are soulless things that feed on fear and momentum and prejudice.
Pierce Brown
#73. Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.
Nan Fairbrother
#75. Consistency is the key to achieving and maintaining momentum.
Darren Hardy
#76. When stock prices are rising, it's called "momentum investing"; when they are falling, it's called "panic".
Paul Krugman
#77. Sleater-Kinney's biggest momentum was from the press - that, second to Radiohead, they got more positive press than any other band in America in the 90s.
Slim Moon
#78. The bigger problem is this: Logic can be tweaked to say anything you want it to say. Only guts tell the truth, and your gut says this could be big if you can get the momentum you need. Your gut is processing all the data from everywhere. And the idea feels good.
Leela Sinha M.Div.
#79. I do feel my work has momentum.
Ken Stott
#80. 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
#81. I was verbally attacked by a Momentum activist and Jeremy Corbyn supporter who used traditional antisemitic slurs to attack me for being part of a 'media conspiracy'.
Ruth Smeeth
#83. The international community must offer short-term emergency measures to meet critical needs. But it must also make longer-term investments to promote food production and agricultural development, enhance food security and maintain and accelerate momentum towards the MDGs.
Ban Ki-moon
#84. Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.
Tom Watson
#85. I played pretty well in my twenties, don't get me wrong! But my consistency is better [in my thirties], my momentum is better, my wins are quicker.
Serena Williams
#86. Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.
Michael Connelly
#87. I'm reading and trying to find a television show that I really like, so I can start really working again and gain some momentum.
Shannyn Sossamon
#88. 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
#89. America today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America.
Omar N. Bradley
#90. To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will drag you along like a wild river.
Eckhart Tolle
#91. For an hour every day, I did something. I was on the elliptical or the treadmill, and if someone asked me to go to a class - whether it was spinning, boxing, yoga, you name it - I went. By the end of the month, I felt so good, I just kept going. I didn't want to lose my momentum.
Molly Sims
#92. angular momentum appears in two forms : one of them is angular momentum of motion, and the other is angular momentum in electric and magnetic fields. There is angular momentum in the field around the magnet, although it does not appear as motion, and this has the opposite sign to the spin. If
Richard Feynman
#93. If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress.
Hannah Arendt
#94. The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum.
George C. Marshall
#95. In writing, I try to find the right balance between momentum and infinity, truth and beauty.
Romesh Gunesekera
#96. We haven't had a slew of artists, but the artists we do come out with have always had the same momentum.
Jermaine Dupri
#97. Good news? The spongy forest floor cushioned my fall. Bad news? Momentum slammed my torso into a tree trunk. Couldn't breathe.
A&E Kirk
#98. Whatever beginning goals you set for yourself, following through on them will build momentum and a sense of achievement and those small success will point the way to bigger ones
Pamela Glass Kelly
#99. For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.
Jasper Fforde
#100. new faster, leaner non-profits are springing up everywhere. They engage, they show momentum
Dan Portnoy
