Marlon Brando
Actor, Director
"Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity."
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Momentum
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Tom Watson
Politician
"Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum."
Josh Gates
Television presenter, producer
"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."
Hannah Arendt
Philosopher, Political Theorist
"Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda."
Tony Robbins
Author, Life Coach
"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!"
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"The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them you immediately begin to create momentum."
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"Success comes from taking the initiative and following up or persisting."
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"The basic concept of value to a private owner and being motivated when you're buying and selling securities by reference to intrinsic value instead of price momentum - I don't think that will ever be outdated."
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"The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much."
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"The momentum now is inevitable. Now it's about each of us individually arranging the furniture of our own mind to deal with what has become inevitable."
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"Develop and maintain momentum by working continuously toward your sales goals every day."
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"But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that."
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"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"
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"But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past."
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"Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is in a direction that allows terrible follies to happen, and the terrible follies have terrible consequences."
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"Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought."
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"[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible."
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"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."
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"I cannot tell you on a day to day basis that there's a return on investment. I can tell you if you stick with it, absolutely in a few months things will start to change. It starts to change slowly. Things start to get a little easier. As the momentum builds it becomes bigger and bigger."
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"I tell you, revenge plays a big part in momentum down here."
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"A dunk is nice because it can create momentum, but it's not as good as scoring a touchdown."
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"I'm dead, not impotent. Nasty rumors like that must be squashed before they gain momentum. Feel free to emphasize how very functional I am."
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"As the arrow endures the string, and in the gathering momentum becomes more than itself. Because to stay is to be nowhere."
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"Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory."
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"Sleater-Kinney's biggest momentum was from the press - that, second to Radiohead, they got more positive press than any other band in America in the 90s."
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