Momentum Quotes - Page 4

When you have momentum going, play the momentum

Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.

Whereas, if you have a longer scene, then you have momentum to build it up. I thought I sucked, but Chris Weitz is an actor, so he understands that process and that you can get nervous in it, and he can look beyond that. Or, it was just me and I was over-thinking the entire thing.

I cannot tell you on a day to day basis that there's a return on investment. I can tell you if you stick with it, absolutely in a few months things will start to change. It starts to change slowly. Things start to get a little easier. As the momentum builds it becomes bigger and bigger.

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.

Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum

When stock prices are rising, it's called ''momentum investing''; when they are falling, it's called ''panic.''

Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.

While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.

Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.

. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.

I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue. If it does, I can feel a sense of momentum - the poem finds a reason for continuing.

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

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

Donald Trump's a great deal-maker with a lot of momentum and it will do a lot of damage to us. We are in grave peril and it's going to be terrible.

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

All the consumer market mojo is with Apple and to a lesser extent BlackBerry. And yet, the real market momentum with operators and the real market momentum with device manufacturers seems to primarily be with Windows Mobile and Android.

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.

One play can change your momentum forever.

Start moving, a step at a time, step after step. The positive momentum will take you from there.

One thing that often disrupts momentum and really shouldn't is competitors.

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

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

You have to save the vision speeches for when the company is winning. When you're not winning, you just have to get momentum back.

It actually has transcended my career at the Geographic, so that when my career there ended, I had momentum as a teacher, and a belief in photographic education at the workshop level.