Leap Quotes - Page 25

• Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?

  Richard Russo

  Heart, World, Intuitive

  Richard Russo (2017). “Empire Falls”, p.390, Atlantic Books

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• Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!

  Zhuangzi

  Home, Years, Taoism

  Zhuangzi, Burton Watson, Columbia College (Columbia University) (1968). “The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu”, p.49, Columbia University Press

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• Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured. Yes, you can wait around for the right set of circumstances to fall into place and then leap into action but you can also create those set of circumstances on your own. In so doing, you manufacture your own opportunities. This has helped me immeasurably.

  Biz Stone

  Inspirational, Graduation, Fall

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• Transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it.

  Sophia Loren

  Leap Of Faith, Analysis, Might

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• Its time to trust my instincts, close my eyes and leap

  Stephen Schwartz

  Eye, Leap Of Faith, Instinct

  David Coté, Joan Marcus, Stephen Schwartz (2005). “Wicked: the Grimmerie”, Hyperion Books

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• "A hundred years ago, in this country, we were more comfortable with these discussions [of past lives, touching the spiritual world, collective unconsciousl] than we are today. I think part of that is that we have gotten addicted to the same serum that I'm taking, which is the belief that the answers are always going to be right there in front of us. And sometimes ya gotta take that leap."

  Mehmet Oz

  Spiritual, Country, Past

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• I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.

  Terence Stamp

  Book, Reality, Comic

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• No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap

  Juvenal

  Umpires, Evil, Vices

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• By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family and function in the real world without doing violence to the hopes his mother held out for him. But those who cannot live within this pattern are the freaks and poets, and they travel a different road to peace.

  Murray Kempton

  Mother, Children, Real

  Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.14, New York Review of Books

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• The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding, or slight discrepancy to defeat twenty pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness of theirs, even if he or she is a provable nut, as being far more credible than ten normal witnesses on the other side; treats rumors, even questions, as the equivalent of proof; leaps from the most minuscule of discoveries to the grandest of conclusions; and insists that the failure to explain everything perfectly negates all that is explained.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Discovery, Nuts, Community

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• I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.

  Douglas Trumbull

  Believe, Technology, Next

  "Trumbull's Vision" by Jeff Greenwald, www.wired.com. January 01, 1997.

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• Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

  Barbara Sher

  Leadership, Quantum, Quantum Leap

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.180, Dell

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• The Buddha's insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment. The middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere.

  Adyashanti

  Missing, Understanding, Mind

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• I know Microsoft, I know they were only doing things because they thought they were long-reaching and long-thinking. But the world we live in now is that we have to realise, especially if you're a big corporation, if you make one step wrong, the world will leap on you, and unfairly, very unfairly, they will judge you.

  Peter Molyneux

  Thinking, Long, Judging

  "Xbox One backlash has been 'unfair', says Peter Molyneux". Interview with Hugh Langley, www.techradar.com. August 12, 2013.

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• And somewhere in that crimson-colored never-never land where i pirouetted madly, in a wild and crazy effort to exhaust myself into insensibility, i saw that man, shadowy and distant, half-hidden behind towering white columns that rose clear up to a purple sky. In a passionate pas de deux he danced with me, forever apart, no matter how hard i sought to draw nearer and leap into his arms, where i could feel them protective about me, supporting me ... and with him i'd find, at last, a safe place to live and love.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Crazy, Men, Land

  Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”

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• A parabatai. Like he was. And Jace knew, too, what that faded rune meant: a parabatai whose other half was dead. He felt his sympathy leap toward Brother Zachariah, as he imagined himself without Alec, with only that faded rune to remind him where once he had been bonded to someone who knew all the best and worst parts of his soul.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Soul, Half

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Heavenly Fire”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration - because it's a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks.

  James Cameron

  Motivational, Confidence, Art

  "Before Avatar ... a curious boy". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2010.

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• Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Motivational, Courage, Two

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• Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas

  Charles Dickens

  Fitness, Attention, Biscuits

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• ...I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of all humanity - that we neeed to renew this ancient wisdom of nonviolence, to strive for a disarmed world, and to create a culture of nonviolence.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Wisdom, Believe, Humanity

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• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

  Diane Ackerman

  Love, Summer, Beach

  "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.

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• What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life? Quadrant II activities have that kind of impact. Our effectiveness takes quantum leaps when we do them.

  Stephen Covey

  Impact, Differences, Effectiveness

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.188, Mango Media Inc.

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• The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.

  Murray Rothbard

  Liberty, Libertarian, States

  Murray N. Rothbard (2015). “The Ethics of Liberty”, p.187, NYU Press

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• The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap

  Albert Einstein

  Writing, Knowledge, Science

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns, 1983.

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• When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom

  Leo Buscaglia

  Lying, Love Is, Ebb And Flow

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