Leap Quotes - Page 11

• Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black side stands still with cunning, hiding its gold between the trees, seeing and not being seen, waiting patiently for things to come. I did not learn to use my black side until after the bad man left me.

  Amy Tan

  Heart, Men, Two

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• My heart is broken. It really is. All the signs are there. I can't sleep- not even burgers. Every time the phone rings, my pulse leaps... But it's never for me, it's never him.

  Meg Cabot

  Heart, Sleep, Phones

  Meg Cabot (2008). “All American Girl”, p.204, Pan Macmillan

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• Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Night, Yesterday

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.98, Cambridge University Press

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• Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.

  Anais Nin

  Dancer, Ballet, Vehemence

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• When I look into your eyes, one word leaps to my mind every time: Forever.

  Tina St. John

  Eye, Forever, Mind

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• If we could get proportional representation and open up roles for smaller parties in coalition governments, we could start intentionally breaking down the cult of personality that is one of the most distorting things about our electoral system in Canada. We had a constellation of social actors behind the Leap Manifesto. And we created something bigger than ourselves.

  Avi Lewis

  Party, Personality, Breaking Down

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act; in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Important, Leap Of Faith, Matter

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.7, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances, Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles And is anxious in its sleep. . . .

  William Butler Yeats

  Taken, Sleep, Moon

  William Butler Yeats (2016). “The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats”, p.57, William Butler Yeats

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• A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Waiting, Political, Events

  "Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, (p.115), 1955.

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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

  People, Empathy, Apathy

  William Lloyd Garrison (1852). “Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...”, p.63

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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 the world.

  Richard Gere

  World, Holiness, Quantum

  "Richard Gere: My Journey as a Buddhist". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.lionsroar.com. June 9, 2016.

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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 that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Children, Believe, Book

  "It pays to trust your gut" by Daniel Terdiman, www.wired.com. January 7, 2005.

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• One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything.

  Herbie Hancock

  Talking, Listening, Mouths

  "Tribute To Miles". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2011.

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• I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

  People, House, Dancer

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• You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Moving, Learning, Heart

  Newsweek, May 26, 1980.

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• It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

  Charles Kuralt

  Love You, Mind, Privilege

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• In e-commerce, your prices have to be better because the consumer has to take a leap of faith in your product.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Leap Of Faith, Ecommerce, Consumers

  "Why Ashton Kutcher Believes You Need to Own Quality T-Shirts". Interview With Corbin Chamberlin, www.elle.com. April 1, 2013.

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• Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Brother, Book

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• My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

  Anne Lamott

  Land, Doubt, Lily Pads

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.7, Anchor

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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 my parents would play it every Sunday afternoon and we'd all get up and leap around the house.

  Bronagh Gallagher

  Memories, Sunday, Epic

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• Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Cheesy, Milk, Cheese

  Any Number Can Play (1957) p. 105

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• Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.

  James Dyson

  Electric Motors, Quantum, Efficient

  "How James Dyson Makes the Ordinary Extraordinary". Interview with Shoshana Berger, www.wired.com. November 19, 2012.

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• I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap away from the crowd a little bit.

  Emily Blunt

  Space, Trying, Crowds

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• The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

  Jerome Bruner

  Education, School, Laziness

  The Process of Education (p. 14)

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• Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

  Samuel Butler

  Looks, Reap

  Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson (1807). “Poetical works: With the life of the author”, p.217

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