Jumping In Quotes

• Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspiring, Trust, Fall

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• Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Courage, Humor, Greatness

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.215, Melville House

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Beautiful, Faith

  Kurt Vonnegut (2016). “If This Isn't Nice What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By”, p.131, RosettaBooks

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• There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

  William Faulkner

  Horse, Jumping, Feel Good

  "Visit to Two-Finger Typist". LIFE magazine, July 14, 1961.

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• Everything seems beautiful because you don't understand. Those flying fish, they're not leaping for joy, they're jumping in terror. Bigger fish want to eat them. That luminous water, it takes its gleam from millions of tiny dead bodies, the glitter of putrescence. There's no beauty here, only death and decay.

  Curt Siodmak

  Beauty, Beautiful, Jumping

  "Fictional character: Paul Holland". "I Walked with a Zombie", www.imdb.com. 1943.

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• I feel most vulnerable when I am underprepared - for instance, if I have an audition and haven't worked through the material enough beforehand. Also, if I am running late, I feel completely vulnerable because I am usually the person who is early to everything so that I can settle down and breathe before jumping in to the task at hand.

  Renee Marino

  Running, Jumping, Hands

  "Renee Marino on the Art of Feeling Alive: Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Obama has paid and will continue to pay dearly for betting on his stimulus package. Because of it, the Bush recession is becoming the Obama recession much faster than it would have had he adopted a more gradual approach to solving economic problems. By jumping in immediately, as he did, in order to increase government spending and pass eight years of Democratic dreams in one day, he made the public expect a solution.

  Dick Morris

  Dream, Jumping, Eight

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• I don't feel lonely. No no no. I feel like I'm jumping in a well that has no bottom, and at some point I know I'll hit bottom. I never put a time limit on it. I'm oblivious to anything except that which I'm doing.

  Lawrence Schiller

  Lonely, Jumping, Limits

  Interview with Suzanne Snider, believermag.com. May 1, 2010.

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• You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.

  Ann Patchett

  Jumping, Rivers, Persons

  Ann Patchett (2012). “State of Wonder”, p.306, A&C Black

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• I am crazy about time cuts. I have a theory that the audience tie everything together so they don't see time cuts but the time cuts give us the possibility of jumping in time, which means a psychological evolution can be cut down.

  Lars von Trier

  Crazy, Mean, Cutting

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that's something we're proud of.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Moving, Jumping, Years

  "Startup School". Interview with Jason Kincaid, www.washingtonpost.com. October 24, 2009.

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• After I went to bed I had a curious fancy as to dreams. In sleep the doors of the mind are shut, and thoughts come jumping in at the windows. They tumble headlong, and therefore are so disorderly and strange. Sometimes they are stout and light on their feet, and then they are rational dreams.

  James Boswell

  Dream, Sleep, Thoughtful

  James Boswell (2001). “Boswell's Edinburgh Journals 1767-1786”, Mercat Press Books

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• I learned something from a string of failed relationships. You don't see a pattern quickly. You see it over time. I learned to stop jumping in at the first sign of attraction. As soon as you're attracted to someone, you go for it - whether or not it's a good idea. Basically, just going out and getting laid.

  James McAvoy

  Jumping, Ideas, Going Out

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I love physical stuff. I love jumping in and getting my nose bloody. I don't really mind it. I think that, if you don't come out with a few cuts and scrapes, you haven't really been putting the effort it.

  Tom Weston-Jones

  Cutting, Thinking, Jumping

  Source: collider.com

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• We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having done that, we find ourselves committed to usages and customs which we had not before fully known, but from which we cannot depart without giving up the end which we have chosen. But we have no right, therefore, to claim that we are under the yoke of necessity. We might as well say that the man whom we see struggling vainly in the current of Niagara could not have helped jumping in.

  Anna Brackett

  Freedom, Giving Up, Struggle

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• I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand...

  Simon Cowell

  Jumping, Done, Thailand

  "'If you could kiss anyone in the world, who would it be?'". Interview with Francesca Gallio, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2009.

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• I'm an athlete; I've got an ego when stunt doubles have to come in. Not an ego like that, but when it comes to physical stuff, if I didn't have to have a stunt double, I would always probably do it myself unless the producers were jumping in and stopping me.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Athlete, Jumping, Ego

  "Next Factor Q&A: 'Chronicle' Star Michael B. Jordan" by Breanne L. Heldman, www.mtv.com. February 01, 2012.

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• I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

  Solomon Burke

  Jumping, Hands, Lines

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• I'm jumping in right now. And I'm going to say that everybody I know has a 'day I met CM Punk story' and they're all 100% fabrication. It's all bullshit. Thank you.

  CM Punk

  Jumping, Wwe, Bullshit

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• Arthur shook his head and sat down. He looked up. “I thought you must be dead …” he said simply. “So did I for a while,” said Ford, “and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. I kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic.

  Douglas Adams

  Couple, Jumping, Gin And Tonic

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.295, Pan Macmillan

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• Honestly, Jared, one thing at a time. Why are you in a well with me? This is a really bad rescue!" [...] "I called the police as I was running to the well. I'm sure they're coming." "Did they say they were coming?" Kami asked suspiciously. "Or did you shout, 'Kami's in the well!' before jumping in the well too, thus loosing your phone and making sure the police think it was some kids playing a dumb joke?" Jared paused. [...] "Alternate plan," Jared said. "Do you have a very intelligent collie who might communicate through a system of barks to your parents that little Kami is in the well?

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Running, Kids, Intelligent

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• Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.

  Chinua Achebe

  Jumping, Toads, Daylight

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.143, Heinemann

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• The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Thinking, Jumping

  "Notes of a Dirty Old Man". Book by Charles Bukowski, 1969.

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• There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now."

  John L'Heureux

  Jumping, Fiction, Crafts

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