Momentum Quotes

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)
The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum. View quote
George C. Marshall
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. View quote
Michael Korda
Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea. View quote
Robert Rauschenberg
I sat down with my trainers to check my past seasons and to see what could be done to keep me motivated and in good shape. I had to find a new motivation, a new momentum. View quote
Hermann Maier
I won a great giant slalom in Japan last week, and it gave me momentum for this final part of the season. View quote
Hermann Maier
To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self. View quote
Charles Cooley
But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War. View quote
Joseph Rotblat
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. View quote
Frances Willard
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum. View quote
Holly Near
Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum. (Ikue Mori)
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. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a war with certain things on your mind as a purpose of what you are doing, but in the end, you found yourself fighting for entirely different things that you had never thought of before ... In other words, war has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. Today, if we went into Iraq, like the president would like us to do, you know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end. View quote
George F. Kennan
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. View quote
Steve Ballmer
The trouble is that once America goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't find its enemy, for the sake of the enraged folks back home, it will have to manufacture one. Once war begins, it will develop a momentum, a logic and a justification of its own, and we'll lose sight of why it's being fought in the first place. View quote
Arundhati Roy
I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa. View quote
Werner Heisenberg
If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
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. View quote
Hannah Arendt
As the proportion of people reaching higher states of consciousness increases, this inertia will decrease, and at the same time a supportive momentum in the new direction will start building up. (Peter Russell)
From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band. View quote
Brian May
With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I'm fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts with great forward momentum. Then there seems to be a period where it slows down a bit, and other things intervene. Then I gain momentum. View quote
Douglas Kennedy
Success requires first expending 10 units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce 10 units of results with each unit of effort. View quote
Charles J. Givens
In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires. View quote
Alan Autry