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“Which brings me to the point: In order to lose momentum, the U.S. economy has to have momentum to begin with. If it had any, I missed it. What we had was a government-prescribed course of amphetamines (to keep it up), antibiotics (to prevent infection) and antidepressants (to make it feel better). It endured regular steroid injections from both monetary and fiscal authorities. And it still has no real muscle.”

Ifs Feels Stills Real Government Order Courses Loses Economy Authority Muscles Feel Better Momentum Monetary Infection Steroid Antibiotics Injection Antidepressants Amphetamines

Author:Caroline Baum

“One positive step can put an end to negative momentum. Now is when you can take it.”

Ends Steps Negative Momentum

Author:Ralph Marston

“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.”

Want Feels I Can Moments Able Goal Acting Skills Elements Approach Percent Hundred Program Perfection Musical Satisfied Staying Concentration Interpretation Preparing Momentum

Author:Yuna

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

Universe Momentum

Author:Peter J. Carroll

“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.”

“If travel has momentum and wants to stay in motion, as I mentioned earlier, then adventure has the gravitational pull of a black hole. The more you do it, the more you find a way to keep doing it.”

Ifs Way Want Black Adventure Holes Momentum Black Hole

Author:Josh Gates

“Excitement must lead to immediate action or you will lose the power of momentum. More dreams die because we fail to seize the moment. Do it now!”

Moments Dream Action Dies Loses Failing Excitement Momentum Seize The Moment Immediate Action

Author:Tony Robbins

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

Inspirational Leader Increase Momentum Great Leader Good Leader

Book:The 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a Leader's Day: Revitalize Your Spirit and Empower Your Leadership

Source: The 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a Leader's Day: Revitalize Your Spirit and Empower Your Leadership

“For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.”

Action Movement Gains Momentum Small Actions

Author:Adam Braun

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

Action Motivation Fuel Procrastination Momentum

Author:Steve Pavlina

“Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.”

Mind Stills Music Painting Pure Harmony Misery Depth Corners Driven Drawing Calmness Momentum Irresistible Poorest Cottages Starry Night Nonentity

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Keep moving ahead because action creates momentum, which in turn creates unanticipated opportunities.”

Action Moving Turns Opportunity Keep Moving Momentum Moving Ahead

Book:Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life

Source: Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life

“More women speaking up and seizing the helm of power can create its own momentum. It can change the culture that helps perpetuate those external forces.”

World Helping Culture Force Changing The World Momentum Seizing Speaking Up Helm External Forces

Author:Nancy Birdsall

“I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.”

People Thinking World War Whole Would Be Today Together Situation Reactions War Of The Worlds Patriotism World War Ii World War I Momentum

Author:Parker Stevenson

“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.”

Source: A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat

“Motivation is the spark that lights the fire of knowledge and fuels the engine of accomplishment, it maximizes and maintains momentum”

Light Motivation Fire Accomplishment Fuel Sparks Engines Momentum

Book:Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance

Source: Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance

“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”

Seems Purpose Common Consciousness Particular Losing Fulfillment Streams Internals Momentum Flooding Disconnecting

Book:Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear.”

Feels Should Writing Certain Voice Flow Should Have Ears Weight Prose Momentum Tumbling Forward Momentum

Author:John Updike

“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.”

People Ifs Stills Fighting Force Rocks Battle Mountain Rounds Secure Squares Rolling Momentum Incline Stationary

Book:The Illustrated Art of War

Source: The Illustrated Art of War

“To get momentum, you must first focus on a specific goal with passion and intensity.”

Firsts Passion Goal Focus Target Self Motivation Intensity Momentum Goals And Objectives Specific Goals

Author:Donald Trump

“Develop and maintain momentum by working continuously toward your sales goals every day.”

Goal Momentum Sales Goals

Book:Successful Selling

Source: Successful Selling

“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.”

I Can Ideas Interesting Virtue Spells Very Interesting Momentum Assistants Punctuation Interesting Ideas

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.”

May Self Belief Force Doubt Oneself Collectives Momentum Creeps Self-doubt Kernel

Author:Aimee Mullins

“We found out tonight how important and how crucial momentum swings can be. I thought we were playing very well. We were doing a lot of positive things but then we lost the puck two times in our zone and things swung their way. You can't afford to give teams momentum.”

Way Giving Wells Two Important Found Lost Team Zone Tonight Crucial Swings Momentum Positive Things Puck

Author:Saku Koivu

“Cursing themselves in ragged dreamsfire has singed the edges of,they know a slow dying the fields have come to terms with.Shimmering fans work against the heat& smell of gunpowder, making moneyfloat from hand to hand. The next momenta rocket pushes a white fistthrough night sky, & they scatter like birds& fall into the shape their liveshave become.”

Knows Hands Night Fall Next Term White Sky Fans Dying Fields Shapes Bird Edges Smell Making Money Heat Momentum Rockets Night Sky Cursing Ragged Gunpowder

Author:Yusef Komunyakaa

“I think about myself as like an ocean liner that's been going full speed for a long distance, and the captain pulls the throttle back all the way to 'stop', but the ship doesn't stop immediately. It has its own momentum and it keeps on going, and I'm very flattered that people are still finding me useful.”

People Thinking Way Long Stills Inspiration Ocean Findings Distance Speed Ships Captains Momentum Long Distance Flattered Throttle

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.”

Ideas Interesting Very Interesting Momentum Interesting Ideas

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“Momentum is your next day's pitcher.”

Next Next Day Momentum Pitcher

Author:Jim Leyland

“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.”

Ifs Song Sides Get Away Momentum Away From You

Author:Dave Matthews

“Success comes from taking the initiative and following up or persisting.”

Depth Following Initiative Momentum Expressing Love Depth Of Love

Author:Tony Robbins

“Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.”

People Giving Self Energy Loses Levels Translate Fulfilling Momentum Inaction Lack Of Confidence

Book:The 50th Law

Source: The 50th Law

“I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms—or, more accurately, my quivering bank balance, accessed through foreign ATMs—would give out, and I’d fall to the ground.”

Giving Sometimes Fall Next My Own Knowing Arms Balance Momentum Atm

Author:Amanda Lindhout

“Making sweeping statements such as 'no sweets ever again' has never worked before, and it's not going to work now. You'll get quickly overwhelmed and punt on any positive momentum you created.”

Sweet Statements Overwhelmed Going To Work Momentum Sweeping

Author:Jude Bijou

“Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.”

Stories Dream Age Sides Century Car Shapes West Golden Tails Furniture Twentieth Century Momentum Golden Age Fins West Side West Side Story American Cars

Author:John Lahr

“[I]n constitutional adjudication some steps, which when taken were thought to approach 'the verge,' have become the platform for yet further steps. A certain momentum develops in constitutional theory and it can be a 'downhill thrust' easily set in motion but difficult to retard or stop.”

States Certain Difficult Church Steps Taken Theory Approach Platforms Momentum Thrust Verge Retard

Author:Warren E. Burger

“I am never happy when I finish a book. I always start feeling good, and then I get to about Page 75 and start losing momentum - and I kind of pull it together at the end, but by then I think it's just all over. It's become almost a running joke among my agent and my editor - I always say that, so they don't take me seriously anymore.”

Thinking Writing Kind Book Ends Feelings Running Together Pages Losing Jokes Feel Good Agents Over It Editors Take Me Momentum

Author:Sarah Dessen

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Want Feels Firsts Doe I Can Sometimes Reason Lines Continuing Momentum

Author:Billy Collins

“As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States.”

Ifs States Enjoy Growth United United States Economic Benefits Relation China Mutual Globalization Rapids Momentum Economic Globalization Rapid Growth Mutual Benefit

Author:Xi Jinping

“At a time when the insurgents are saying that time is working against them, my Democratic colleagues are introducing a measure to set a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq that will undercut the momentum that the insurgents themselves say we have built in Iraq.”

Built Democratic Iraq Introducing Colleagues Momentum Withdrawal Insurgent Timetables Undercut

Author:Christopher Bond

“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.”

Enough Facts Cities Security Crime Perception Progressive Momentum Resurgence

Author:Alan Autry

“Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of colonising the future. The more or less constant, profound and rapid momentum of change characteristic of modern institutions, coupled with structured reflexivity, mean that on the level of everyday practice as well as philosophical [Seitenwechsel] interpretation, nothing can be taken for granted. What is acceptable/appropriate/recommended behaviour today may be seen differently tomorrow in the light of altered circumstances or incoming knowledge-claims.”

“A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.”

Facts Momentum Linux

Author:Nat Friedman

“There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders.”

Country Certain Amount Borders Momentum

Author:Mike Johanns

“My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum.”

Enough My Own Rooms Brain Pieces Intelligent Hot Safety Faults Intelligence Stores Primaries Equipment Entering Momentum Protective Presumption

Author:Max Barry

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