Forward Motion Quotes

• 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.

  Ken Evoy

  Determination, Moving, Decision

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• Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

  Walt Disney

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Next Move

  "Meet the Robinsons". The ending credits of the movie, 2007.

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  Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein's letter to his son Eduard (February 5, 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson "Einstein: His Life and Universe" (p. 367), 2007.

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• 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.

  Debby Ryan

  Believe, Moving, People

  "Disney Star Debby Ryan Talks About Giving Back & Her Hit Show 'Jessie'". Interview with Danica Davidson, MTV, September 20, 2012.

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

  Daphne Oz

  Moving, Keep Moving, Courses

  Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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.

  Samantha Morton

  Children, Moving, Childhood

  "The Unloved: An Interview with Samantha Morton". Birds Eye View Interview, www.birds-eye-view.co.uk. February 15, 2010.

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• Relentless Forward Motion!

  Tom Riley

  Running, Inspirational Running, Relentless

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• 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.

  David Allen

  Cutting, Energy, Cobwebs

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

  Conrad Hilton

  Past, Satisfied, Past Success

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• 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.

  Lenny Abrahamson

  Focus, Lovely, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Gail Godwin

  Long, Found, Yearning

  Gail Godwin (1985). “The finishing school”, Viking Pr

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• 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.

  Gerard Cox

  Quality, Technique, Meals

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• 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.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Time, Jobs, Military

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

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Ignorance, Possibility Of Change, Understanding

  Robert Charles Wilson (2013). “Blind Lake”, p.117, Hachette UK

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• Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return.

  Henry Vaughan

  Moving, Fall, Men

  'The Retreat' l.29 from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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• 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.

  James A. Michener

  Future, Believe, Adventure

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• 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.

  Jef Mallett

  Stress, Self, Car

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• 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.

  Luc Sante

  New York, Hands, Progress

  Luc Sante (2016). “Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York”, p.10, Macmillan

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• 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.

  David Suzuki

  Moving, Environmental, Energy

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• 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.

  Diriye Osman

  Lonely, Morning, Home

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• 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.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Creativity, Firsts, Energy

  Nolan Bushnell, Gene Stone (2014). “Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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