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• As the arrow endures the string, and in the gathering momentum becomes more than itself. Because to stay is to be nowhere.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Arrows, Gathering, Strings

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• Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

  Ben Nicholas

  Life, Motivational, Inspiration

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• Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

  Tom Watson

  Motivational, Thinking, Too Much

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• Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

  Tony Robbins

  Love, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from May 31, 2016

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• 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

  Iraq, Withdrawal, Introducing

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• 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.

  James Bovard

  Years, Faces, Passing

  "An Interview with James Bovard". "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org. January 25, 2006.

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

  Nat Friedman

  Linux, Facts

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• I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.

  Renata Adler

  Life, Thinking, Long

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.29, New York Review of Books

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• The dreams you choose to believe in come to be. When you feel in your innermost being that you will achieve what you set out to do, you open the way for miracles. Choose to believe something good can happen. Expecting it to happen energizes your goal and actually gives it momentum. What you expect to happen, happens. If you expect to succeed, you'll succeed

  Nikita Koloff

  Dream, Believe, Giving

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• When you have momentum going, play the momentum

  Donald Trump

  Play

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• We have at most ten years - not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions... We are near a tipping point, a point of no return, beyond which the built in momentum and feedbacks will carry us to levels of climate change with staggering consequences for humanity and all of the residents of this planet.

  James Hansen

  Decide Upon, Years, Humanity

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

  Hannah Arendt

  Language, Propaganda, Mass

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Book, Men, Events

  "Holding the Hammer: JMS Talks Thor". Interview with Chris Arrant, www.newsarama.com. October 17, 2008.

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

  Brian Tracy

  Goal, Sales Goals

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Successful Selling”, p.44, Jaico Publishing House

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

  Adam Braun

  Movement, Gains, Action

  "The Importance of #IamMalala on November 10th" by Adam Braun, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2012.

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• 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

  Dream, Motivation, Goal

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You”, p.95, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.

  Sam Altman

  Prime

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• I write out of enthusiasm. Momentum that comes from a new idea. Eagerness to explore. I also write out of fear - fear of losing an idea - fear of feeling stagnant.

  Nick Antosca

  Writing, Ideas, Feelings

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• When you regularly take continuous action toward your most important goals, you activate the Momentum Principle of success. This principle says that although it may take tremendous amounts of energy to overcome inertia and get started initially, it then takes far less energy to keep going.

  Brian Tracy

  Goal, Important, Overcoming

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.112, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Long, Crowds, Trends

  George Soros (2003). “The Alchemy of Finance”, p.83, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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

  Strong, Nice, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Business, What Matters, Data

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• 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

  Mind, Furniture, Inevitable

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• By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in such details as that meter sticks shorten when they move or that simultaneous position and momentum have no meaning, but in the insight that we had not been using our minds properly and that it is important to find out how to do so.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Lying, Moving, Science

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• It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less a moth eaten man who grinds an organ - and once he was an organ-grinder! The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Simple

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.659, e-artnow

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