Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces - forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago. Decisions, especially bad ones, create their own kind of momentum, and momentum can be a bitch to stop, as every athlete knows. Even when we ...
Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.
If the setups take too long, you wind up losing momentum. Momentum is very good for comedy. Not having to do eight setups in a single scene and have it take five hours is very good for comedy.
When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.
I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later...' I like things where the momentum of one action rolls into the next one so everything is the sum of that.
I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of momentum. And I don't mean this in a derogatory way. I'm always wanting it to pick up momentum, and I'm wondering if that's even possible.
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.
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 giv...
I won a great giant slalom in Japan last week, and it gave me momentum for this final part of the season.
I do feel my work has momentum.
Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.
…momentum—not experience—is the single biggest predictor of business and personal success.
This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.
In order to mount to heaven, you used the Inferno to give you momentum. "The further down you gain your momentum," you often used to tell me, "the higher you shall be able to reach. The militant Christian's greatest worth is not his virtue, but his s...
The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.
I am the one constant obstacle to my own momentum.
A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story's momentum.
Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
