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“Three or four plays cause the momentum to shift. We turned it over and gave Baylor a cheap score.”

Play Three Causes Four Score Momentum Baylor

“In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.”

Nations President Seeing Republican Democrat Congress Despite Momentum Preventing Assertive Backing Down

Author:Bill Vaughan

“As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.”

Knows Kind Mean Character Actors Bits Five Nice Crazy Six Pages Pace Momentum

Author:Colm Meaney

“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.”

Ifs Knows War Ends Today President Intention Iraq Thoughtful Carrie Where You Are Do You Know Momentum Where You Are Going

Author:George F. Kennan

“Writing fiction is like music. You have to keep it moving. You can have slow movements but there has to be a sense of momentum, of going someplace. You hear a snatch of Beethoven and it has a sense of momentum that is unmistakably his. That's a nice quality if you can do it in fiction.”

Ifs Writing Moving Can Do Fiction Quality Nice Movement You Can Do It Momentum Writing Fiction Keep It Moving

Author:John Updike

“Baseball is not like football, basketball where a momentum is something made. You don't really have that kind of momentum in baseball.”

Kind Made Football Basketball Baseball Momentum

Author:William C. Rhoden

“The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum.”

Elements Continuing Offensive Maintaining Momentum

Author:George C. Marshall

“Before replays, football telecasts were filled with dead spots... It really destroyed the momentum of the telecasts. Replays gave you something to show during the pauses. It seemed to make the game go faster.”

Shows Games Football Filled Destroyed Spots Faster Pauses Momentum Replay

Author:Tony Verna

“When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt; there's pressure to keep the momentum up.”

Book Reading Natural Pressure Momentum Halt

Author:David Nicholls

“If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.”

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

Moving Commitment Momentum

Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

“I became successful and within five years conquered the world and had the most amazing run. I had so much momentum and adrenaline going, but then it ends and you have to find what level you're going to be on, how enthusiastic you're going to be.”

World Years Ends Running Levels Successful Five Five Years Enthusiastic Momentum Adrenaline Most Amazing

Author:Elton John

“The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.”

Giving Writing Looks Giving Up Productions Phases Editing Momentum Editing And Writing

Author:Rian Johnson

“Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.”

Known Position Determined Momentum Uncertainty Principle

Author:Werner Heisenberg

“Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.”

Humans Human Nature Evolution Nationalism Machinery Momentum Tribalism Human Evolution

Book:Evolution and Ethics

Source: Evolution and Ethics

“The backlash against women's rights would be just one of several powerful forces creating a harsh and painful climate for women at work. Reagonomics, the recession, and the expansion of a minimum-wage service economy also helped, in no small measure, to slow and even undermine women's momentum in the job market. But the backlash did more than impede women's opportunities for employment, promotions, and better pay. Its spokesmen kept the news of many of these setbacks from women. Not only did the backlash do grievous damage to working women C it did on the sly.”

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

Fall Investing Rising Panic Momentum Stock Price

Author:Paul Krugman

“Our future is only limited by our commitment to keep the momentum going. Now that television has been set free from all constraints - including time, place, and all previous definitions - what comes next?”

Has Beens Next Television Commitment Including Definitions Our Future Momentum Constraints

Author:Anne Sweeney

“Well, the whole trick to doing an independent film, is to keep great pace and momentum. You're shooting maybe three times as many scenes in one day that you would on a big, luxurious budget on a luxurious schedule, and you try not to sacrifice quality for that. Things are just compressed, but essentially the same.”

Trying Wells Whole Bigs Film Three Quality Sacrifice Scene One Day Independent Tricks Shooting Budgets Pace Schedules Three Times Momentum Independent Film Luxurious

Author:Kevin Kline

“What I like about their films is that you actually feel the momentum of whatever they're shooting. So, if someone's falling out a window, it gives the opportunity to show what that might feel like.”

Ifs Giving Feels Shows Might Film Fall Opportunity Window Shooting Momentum

Author:Idris Elba

“Sometimes you can have a great scene but it just doesn't need to be in the movie. If it's not progressing the plot, not progressing the story, not adding to the momentum, or if it's not purposefully serving a breath - it has got to go.”

Ifs Needs Sometimes Stories Progress Scene Breaths Plot Serving Momentum

Author:Kevin Feige

“The minute you feel like you've completed something you lose that momentum. I've learned how to avoid that. That's the bottom line.”

Feels Loses Lines Minutes Like You Bottom I've Learned Bottom Line Momentum

Author:Michael Angelakos

“I tend to prefer the smaller movies because they shoot more efficiently and so you're are able to maintain that momentum of the character a little more easily.”

Littles Character Able Momentum

Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“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.”

Thinking Knows World Kind Whole Bigs Film Universe Individual Energy Interesting Behinds Creative Truth Is Scene Machines Impact Glad Momentum Big Impact

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“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.”

Trying Moments Opportunity Happenings Lifetime Great Things Momentum Seize The Moment Opportunities Of A Lifetime

Author:Eric Thomas

“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.”

College Exercise Momentum

Author:Simon Sinek

“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.”

Eye Differences Stage Musical Who I Am These Days Momentum Public Eye I Am Who I Am

Author:Neil Young

“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.”

People Writing Enough Social Careers Media Figures Creating Aspect Social Media Momentum Merchandising

Author:Tyler Hilton

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

Growth Focus Maintaining Momentum

Author:Sam Altman

“Momentum and growth are the lifeblood of startups. This is probably in the top three secrets of executing well.”

Wells Three Growth Secret Momentum Executing

Author:Sam Altman

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

Prime Momentum

Author:Sam Altman

“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.”

Winning Company Vision Speech Momentum

Author:Sam Altman

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

One Thing Competitors Momentum

Author:Sam Altman

“Chapter books are often written in series and kids have come to expect that they'll come out once a year, so publishers want to keep the momentum going. It's the kind of art I love to make, except that the time frame is really nutty.”

Want Years Kind Art Book Kids Written Series Chapters Publishers Momentum Nutty

Author:Carson Ellis

“The first time you do anything, people always take a minute to try to figure it out, but once you witness it in person, the word starts to spread and it gains momentum year after year.”

People Trying Years Firsts Persons Minutes Figures Gains First Time Spread Witness Momentum

Author:Darren Criss

“I tell you, revenge plays a big part in momentum down here.”

Play Bigs Revenge Momentum

Author:Eric Davis

“And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.”

Rocks Hills Get Better Rolling Momentum Decathlon

Author:Dan O'Brien

“GM is operating in an intensely competitive global environment and reaching this tentative agreement allows us to continue to build momentum in the market with the award-winning vehicles and components produced in Canada.”

Winning Environment Reaching Canada Agreement Awards Vehicle Components Momentum Award Winning

Author:Al Green

“Politics was not just about winning the election, it was about winning decisively--having the momentum to carry out one's vision. Historically, any president who squeaked into office on a narrow margin accomplished much less; he was weakened right out of the gate, and Congress never seemed to let him forget it.”

Winning President Forget Vision Office Election Congress Accomplished Gates Forget It Momentum Margins

Book:Deception Point

Source: Deception Point

“In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or three. Stories are cut down to the most essential elements, and novels (this might be an unfair generalization on my part) are big fat clumsy efforts where the reader can snooze for a couple chapters and miss nothing of consequence. Hence my love for the middle way.”

“The best scripts I read are usually pretty - they move really quickly, there's not a lot of exposition in between all of what's happening, so you can really just flow with the lines, and you're reading and it has a momentum and you understand it emotionally.”

Moving Reading Lines Happenings Flow Scripts Momentum

Author:Kirsten Dunst

“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.”

People States Consciousness Building Higher Increase Proportion Reaching Supportive Momentum Decrease Inertia States Of Consciousness Building Up New Directions

Author:Peter Russell

“Momentum is whatever your attitude determines it to be.”

Attitude Determine Momentum

Author:Lou Holtz

“You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level.”

Needs Ideas Moving Guy Next Black Levels Growing Movement Cold Becoming Stones Drinking Eras Beer Wrestling Bad Guys Shifting Momentum Beard Next Level Beer Drinking Stone Cold

Author:Hulk Hogan

“I write out of enthusiasm. Momentum that comes from a new idea. Eagerness to explore. I also write out of fear - fear of losing an idea - fear of feeling stagnant.”

Writing Ideas Feelings Losing Enthusiasm New Ideas Momentum Stagnant Eagerness

Author:Nick Antosca

“The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but dont fix the underlying problems.”

“But be very, very careful, because when you're playing with momentum, you're playing with fire.”

Fire Careful Momentum Playing With Fire

Author:Jim Cramer

“Comedy has to have momentum in order for it to keep moving along.”

Moving Order Comedy Keep Moving Momentum

Author:Rose Byrne

“Momentum solves 80% of your problems.”

Problem Solve Momentum

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Consumer spending is now plunging at serious-recession rate ... even if the rescue now in train succeeds in unfreezing credit markets, the real economy has immense downward momentum. In addition to financial rescues, we need major stimulus programs.”

Ifs Needs Real Economy Serious Succeed Majors Program Train Rate Financial Credit Spending Consumers Immense Rescue Momentum Stimulus Recessions

Author:Paul Krugman

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