Best Forward Motion Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Stranger to the Beautiful

“Forward is the only motion we know. The only direction that can make sense of the loss, that can perhaps, even one day, restore it.”

Loss Moving Forward Restoration Forward Motion

Book:The Lion of the Sea

Source: The Lion of the Sea

“The very act of seeking sets things in motion.”

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Author:Laurie Buchanan, PhD

“Defeat only happens when you make the decision to stop trying. Because determination works. Steady forward motion, even if it's just a step per week, gets you there. So keep moving, even if it's only a little some weeks.”

Ifs Trying Littles Happens Moving Decision Steps Week Determination Defeat Steady Keep Moving Stop Trying Forward Motion

Author:Ken Evoy

“Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

“Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.”

Understanding Possibility Ignorance Narrative Static Forward Motion Possibility Of Change

Book:Blind Lake

Source: Blind Lake

“On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch -- engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.”

War Light Jobs Time Evil President Dark Views Darkness Greater Effects Military Excellence Engines Engaging Orchestra Good Day Monarchy Friction Clutch Dark Days Forward Motion

Author:A. Bartlett Giamatti

“Theoretical concepts of music and extended techniques are more like seasoning to me; they're not the meal. I like outside music that still has a sense of forward motion and an emotive quality to it.”

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Author:Gerard Cox

“Film is so much about that intensity of focus that there always needs to be some tension and some forward motion. The novel goes into a series of lovely observations about the world, but you've got to find the story.”

World Needs Stories Film Novel Focus Series Lovely Observation Tension Intensity Forward Motion

Author:Lenny Abrahamson

“To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion.”

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Author:Conrad Hilton

“Keep on moving: any motion is forward motion. You can always course-correct.”

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Author:Daphne Oz

“I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.”

Children Hard Age Remember Moving Happened Childhood Moving Forward Hard Things Bring Me Down Forward Motion

Author:Samantha Morton

“Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.”

Firsts Energy Company Creativity Drivers Forward Motion

Book:Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent

Source: Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent

“Mach-5, the speed at which stress can't keep up, is simply forward motion. But it has to be self- propelled. Note that people in cars are still stressed.”

People Stills Self Car Stress Notes Speed Stressed Forward Motion

Author:Jef Mallett

“Relentless Forward Motion!”

Running Relentless Inspirational Running Forward Motion

Author:Tom Riley

“Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.”

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Author:David Allen

“We risk great peril if we kill off this spirit of adventure, for we cannot predict how and in what seemingly unrelated fields it will manifest itself. A nation that loses its forward thrust is in danger, and one of the most effective ways to retain that thrust is to keep exploring possibilities. The sense of exploration is intimately bound up with human resolve, and for a nation to believe that it is still committed to a forward motion is to ensure its continuance.”

“Less than 10% of the fuel energy burned in automobiles is translated into forward motion of the vehicle and even then most of this energy is needed to move the vehicle itself, which typically weighs 20 times more than its passengers.”

Moving Energy Needed Environmental Fuel Vehicle Burned Automobile Passengers Forward Motion

Author:David Suzuki

“The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.”

Long Found Longing Yearning Antidote Forward Motion Yearning For Something

Book:The Finishing School

Source: The Finishing School

“Home is in my hair, my lips, my arms, my thighs, my feet and my hands. I am my own home. And when I wake up crying in the morning, thinking of how lonely I am, I pinch my skin, tug at my hair, remind myself that I am alive. Remind myself to step outside and greet the morning. Remind myself that it’s all about forward motion. It’s all about change. It’s all about that elusive state. Freedom.”

Thinking States Home Hands My Own Steps Morning Alive Feet Cry Hair Arms Lonely Skins Wake Up Lips Elusive Thighs I Am Alive Forward Motion

Author:Diriye Osman

“Look at what you want to change, gather a few people who believe in it like you do, and start moving forward. It's important to remember that you don't always need a destination. Sometimes, you just have to make forward motion. And you absolutely can.”

People Want Needs Believe Looks Important Sometimes Remember Moving Like You What You Want Moving Forward Destination Forward Motion Always Moving Forward

Author:Debby Ryan

“New York, which is founded on forward motion and thus loath to acknowledge its dead, merely causes them to walk, endlessly unsatisfied and unburied, to invade the precincts of supposed progress, to lay chill hands on the heedless present, which does not know how to identify the forces that tug at its rationality.”

Knows Doe Hands Force Causes Walks Know How Progress New York Lays Acknowledge Rationality Chill Unsatisfied Forward Motion

Book:Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York

Source: Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York