Leap Quotes - Page 15

• Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
  It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

  William Cobbett

  Patience, Men, Quality

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• As one, they leap, laughing, and that is where we leave them - mouths open, arms spread wide, fingers splayed to take in the whole world, bodies flying high in defiance of gravity, as if they will never fall.

  Libba Bray

  Fall, Flying High, Laughing

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• When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Nature, Survival, World

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.30, Penguin

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• "There's been a quantum leap technologically in our age, but unless there's another quantum leap in human relations, unless we learn to live in a new way towards one another, there will be a catastrophe."

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, Age, Way

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• there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep

  Leonard Cohen

  Kissing, Blood, Existential

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• Because two bodies, naked and entwined, leap over time, they are invulnerable, nothing can touch them, they return to the source. There is no you, no I, no tomorrow, no yesterday, no names, the truth of two in a single body, a single soul, oh total being.

  Octavio Paz

  Names, Two, Yesterday

  Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger (1991). “The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

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• One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple does not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough.

  Gay Hendricks

  Marriage, Couple, Creative

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• I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Peace, Believe, Way

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• I think my leap into TV and movies and comics is in a way natural because I'm a visual storyteller. If you look at any one of my short stories or novels, they sort of unscroll cinematically. Every scene is concrete in my mind. I can walk around the room and pick things up. I can describe at length every feature on the character, though I might only supply a glimpse of this on the page. So if I'm writing color into that I'm also writing texture, I'm pushing the image more than anything else.

  Benjamin Percy

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Music, the greatest good that mortals know,
  And all of heaven we have below.
  Music can noble hints impart,
  Engender fury, kindle love;
  40 With unsuspected eloquence can move,
  And manage all the man with secret art.
  When Orpheus strikes the trembling lyre
  The streams stand still, the stones admire;
  The listening savages advance,
  The world and lamb around him trip
  The bears in aukward measures leap,
  And tigers mingle in the dance
  The moving woods attended as he played
  And Rhodope was left without a shade.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Art, Moving

  Joseph Addison, “A Song For St. CeCILIa's Day, At Oxford”

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• It is now. It is always now. Now is good. Now could be the best. My name is Catcher. My name was Catcher. My name...my name... I am... I am lost, I am found and then I am free and I am happy. When I jump over that edge, someone leaps with me, shoulder to shoulder. I smell kinship on him. Kinship is all. I'm not alone. Never alone. I land, earth below me, moon above. I am wolf. We are pack. And that is all I need.

  Rob Thurman

  Moon, Land, Names

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• He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.

  Plautus

  Life, Falling In Love, Fate

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• It is our duty to make a leap into the future, and I believe that we will make it.

  Alexis Tsipras

  Believe, I Believe, Duty

  Source: time.com

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• I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a story.

  Tim O'Brien

  Moving, Dark, Years

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.233, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Joan was nothing more than a friend. He was not in love with her. One does not fall in love with a girl whom one has met only three times. One is attracted, yes; but one does not fall in love. A moment's reflection enabled him to diagnose his sensations correctly. This odd impulse to leap across the compartment and kiss Joan was not love. It was merely the natural desire of a good-hearted young man to be decently chummy with his species.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Falling In Love, Kissing

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “Something New: Or, Something Fresh”, p.107, The Floating Press

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• Three things cannot be called back: the arrow when it speeds from the bow, the milk when the churn is upturned, the word when it leaps from the tongue.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Arrows, Three, Tongue

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• The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step.

  Regina Brett

  Parenting, Views, Focus

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.

  Howard Pyle

  Moon, Mud, Pennies

  Howard Pyle (2012). “The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• Does not all the blood within me
  Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee,
  As the springs to meet the sunshine.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Spring, Sunshine

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.209, Library of America

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• Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a shadow that he can conjure up. “A leap from this bridge will set me free.

  Ernst Junger

  Bridges, Shadow, Awareness

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• The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Laughter, Heart

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• When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Men, Progress

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• Let every man look before he leaps.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Looks, Every Man

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.435, Wordsworth Editions

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• When you do a television show in the States, you get the pilot, and then it's the great unknown. That's the way it is. It's this great leap of faith. It's the Russian roulette of art.

  Jeremy Piven

  Art, Leap Of Faith, Television

  "Jeremy Piven Talks MR. SELFRDIGE, Similarities Between His Characters Harry Selfridge and Ari Gold, Plus Fans’ Desire to See an ENTOURAGE Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 14, 2013.

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• I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Grandparent, Quality, Body

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