Momentum Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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

  Voice, Movement, Weight

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

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• Like riding a bike for the first time, sometimes you just have to go for it. If you keep looking forwards and maintain your momentum, it will probably go well. But if you start to doubt yourself and look back, you are more likely to suffer a major wobble followed by a crash.

  Roz Savage

  Doubt, Suffering, Riding

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

  Eckhart Tolle

  Philosophical, Thinking, Matter

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.14, New World Library

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

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Way, Strategy, Ifs

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

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

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Ideas, Interesting, Very Interesting

  "The secret of my excess". Interview with Michael Kimmelman, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2000.

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• You have to have a patience for exercise. You have to have a patience for college. You have to have a patience for relationships. Once the momentum gets going it takes on a life all of its own.

  Simon Sinek

  Exercise, College

  Source: www.meetadvisors.com

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• A lot of people can figure out the social media aspect of it, or the merchandising aspect, or whatever and get enough momentum to start a career. To sustain it, you have to keep writing and you have to keep creating.

  Tyler Hilton

  Writing, Media, Careers

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• I've got the opportunity of a lifetime. Some great things are happening because of momentum and I'm just trying to seize the moment.

  Eric Thomas

  Opportunity, Trying, Moments

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• I think the truth is the Marvel fiefdom exists very independently inside the Disney world, inside the Disney universe. They're not resistant to that kind of thing but they have their, you know there is a whole sort of machine energy and momentum that is the sort of creative drive behind the whole universe that has a big impact on the individual films. I'm glad those scenes got out there. And we've got a few interesting deleted scenes on this.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Thinking, Impact, Interesting

  "Kenneth Branagh Talks Updating ‘Cinderella’ and Working With Disney". Interview with Kara Warner, screenrant.com. March 12, 2015.

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• I don't have to perform to stay in the public eye anymore. I really don't. I am who I am and what I do on musical stage these days really makes no difference at all. I already have all the momentum there. I am only doing it because I love to do it.

  Neil Young

  Eye, Who I Am, Differences

  Source: the-talks.com

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• Growth and momentum are what a startup lives on and you always have to focus on maintaining these.

  Sam Altman

  Focus, Growth, Maintaining

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• Courage is a self-inflicted quality that gains momentum every time you try it.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Self, Quality, Trying

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• Be a good example and a positive ambassador for vegan living, and be patient and understanding with people who aren't vegan. Support any move non-vegans make away from animal consumption toward plant-based eating. Nurture even small positive steps, as these tend to empower people and build momentum toward bigger steps.

  Gene Baur

  Moving, Animal, People

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• Sometimes I think we're all tightrope walkers suspended on a wire two thousand feet in the air, and so long as we never look down we're okay, but some of us lose momentum and look down for a second and are never quite the same again: we know.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Thinking, Air, Two

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• I figured it out eventually," she says. She's sitting on the edge of the gurney again; her features slowly materialize as my vision clears. "It's momentum." "What?" I whisper. The feeling returning to my lips, spreading out to my fingertips and toes. "Momentum," she repeats. "You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Running, Want Something, Feelings

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• The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.

  Erica Jong

  Law, Firsts, Newton

  erica jong (1977). “how to save your own life”

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• The next time you lose your momentum in daily life as you're chasing after God's best for you, don't give up and conclude that it's over. The greater life hasn't ended for you. It's only out of sight under the waters of the ordinary. And God can resurface it, supernaturally, as many times as it takes. As many times as you're willing.

  Steven Furtick

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Sight

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• It was the combination of many factors... With most people, suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon girls, the gun was loaded. A bullet for family abuse. A bullet for genetic predisposition. A bullet for historical malaise. A bullet for inevitable momentum. The other two bullets are impossible to name, but that doesn't mean the chambers were empty.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Suicide, Mean

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• One positive step can put an end to negative momentum. Now is when you can take it.

  Ralph Marston

  Negative, Steps, Ends

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• There seems to be a lot of momentum behind immigration reform.

  Justin Amash

  Immigration, Reform, Behinds

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• I still believe the momentum is there to accomplish comprehensive immigration reform, and I think there is a bipartisan coalition that would pass right now, a pathway to citizenship if Speaker Boehner lets it come to the floor.

  Joaquin Castro

  Believe, Thinking, Pathways

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• When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become, as it were, like rolling logs or stones... The energy developed by good fighting men is as the momentum of a round stone rolled down a mountain thousands of feet in height.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Fighting

  Sun Tzu “The Art of War”, Lulu.com

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• Any time one person makes an effort to contact a deeper part of him or herself, balance his or her emotions, and deflect the stress momentum, others benefit. As more individuals learn to maintain their poise and balance and refrain from adding to the incoherence around them, they help to counterbalance the frequency of stress

  Howard Martin

  Stress, Effort, Balance

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• Which brings me to the point: In order to lose momentum, the U.S. economy has to have momentum to begin with. If it had any, I missed it. What we had was a government-prescribed course of amphetamines (to keep it up), antibiotics (to prevent infection) and antidepressants (to make it feel better). It endured regular steroid injections from both monetary and fiscal authorities. And it still has no real muscle.

  Caroline Baum

  Real, Feel Better, Government

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