Leap Quotes
648 Leap quotes by 522 unique authors
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Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make some…
— Philip Guston
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It's somewhat of a contradiction, .. I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not going to leap…
— David Bergen
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The indwelling of Christ is a thought particularly fit for the children, because their large faith does not stumble at the mystery, their imagination leaps…
— Charlotte Mason
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The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think…
— Robert Genn
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One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical,…
— Stella Adler
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There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do…
— Saint Basil
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I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio,…
— Davy Crockett
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A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock…
— Emily Dickinson
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They are denied access to the more advanced techniques of releasing the kundalini energy, which bring about quantum leaps in self-awareness.
— Frederick Lenz
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When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery…
— Michael Pollan
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The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.
— Seth Godin
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If we all leap before we crawl, we might fall.
— Lisa Loeb
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I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.
— Harold Ford, Jr.
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The challenging part is in the beginning; its a leap of faith. But I think the most important thing is to just do it. Start.
— Tom Szaky
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I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through…
— Stephen King
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Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon, on which I…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The…
— John Dryden
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Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or…
— Ernest Hemingway
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One of my earliest memories is seeing the bright blue, Epic 45 of Jackie Wilson singing 'Higher and Higher,' and I'd say, 'That one!' and…
— Bronagh Gallagher
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The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
— William Lloyd Garrison
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When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to…
— Richard Gere
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
— Mason Cooley
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Never try to leap from a standstill.
— Mason Cooley
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Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults…
— Sloane Crosley
Who Wrote These Leap Quotes
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