Momentum Quotes - Page 6

• The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.

  Gregory Maguire

  Mind, Capricious

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• It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and scary. That is why many intelligent people continue to believe: unbelief is an unknown.

  Dan Barker

  Faith, Believe, Intelligent

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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• A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about you.

  David Ortiz

  Book, Writing, Careers

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• Don't make the mistakes I made of not taking care of myself. Please, keeps your chops cool and don't overblow. If you are going to play hard, be sure to warm up. I'd get carried away trying to stay right with the momentum [of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers]. I used to try and play like Coltrane and solo for 30 or 40 choruses. It all caught up with me.

  Freddie Hubbard

  Music, Art, Mistake

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• It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill. But at a certain point, the thing takes on its own momentum, and takes unexpected turns. So it's that feeling of holding on, rather than pushing it, that is the most exciting thing. It's that need to occasionally bounce off the walls, letting anything happen for any reason, and having nothing to guide you that is the joy.

  Danny Elfman

  Wall, Moving, Ideas

  "Q&A: Danny Elfman". Interview with Kevin Cassidy, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 14, 2008.

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• Leading a healthy, active lifestyle is all about momentum. If I'm in the middle of training it's easy for me to keep that up. It gets tough when I'm on a break. I just try to start my day with a good breakfast and a quick walk, something simple that gets the day off on the right foot. The more I do that, the more I make healthy choices that reflect the good choices made earlier.

  Natalie Coughlin

  Simple, Choices Made, Feet

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• We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it.

  Barry Alvarez

  Games, Sparks

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• 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

  Thinking, Wish, Mutation

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• 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

  Music, Sound, Shifting

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• There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.

  Yuri Milner

  Internet, Social, Significant

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• 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

  Thinking, Political, Peaceful

  IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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• There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.

  Bill Bryson

  Moving, Want, Keep Moving

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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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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• 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

  Coward, Exhilaration, Century

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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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• 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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• 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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• With the DS and Wii, following the titles that were released at launch, the momentum dropped when there was a gap in software releases. We're making plans so that this type of thing won't happen.

  Satoru Iwata

  Titles, Wii, Gaps

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• 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

  Prayer, Self, Opposites

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• What I want to avoid is staying at the same place. As I improve in skills, musical interpretations, and acting, I am able to approach each element of my programs with perfection. As Im preparing, I build momentum and confidence until I reach a peak of concentration. It is the moment that I feel my best. Then I can bring out one hundred percent, which makes me satisfied with myself. This is my goal.

  Yuna

  Skills, Goal, Perfection

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• He who is doing his true will is assisted by the momentum of the universe.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Universe

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• 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

  Goodbye, Sweet, Drama

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• If I find something I like, I'll chase it and see what comes out the other side. Once a song gets momentum and gets away from you, that's a good sign.

  Dave Matthews

  Song, Sides, Away From You

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• The momentum of continuous action fuels motivation, while procrastination kills motivation.

  Steve Pavlina

  Motivation, Procrastination, Fuel

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• Getting people to fight by letting the force of momentum work is like rolling logs and rocks. Logs and rocks are still when in a secure place, but roll on an incline; they remain stationary if square, they roll if round. Therefore, when people are skillfully led into battle, the momentum is like that of round rocks rolling down a high mountain - this is force.

  Sun Tzu

  Fighting, Squares, Rocks

  Sunzi, Sun-Tzu, Thomas Cleary (1998). “The illustrated art of war”, Shambhala Pubns

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