Leap Quotes - Page 9

• You don't climb a mountain in leaps and bounds, but by taking it slowly.

  Pope Gregory I

  Mountain, Leaps And Bounds, Climbs

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• Ink cannot tell the glow that lights me at this moment in turning to the mountains. I feel strong [enough] to leap Yosemite walls at a bound.

  John Muir

  Strong, Wall, Light

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• The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Thinking, Doe, Different

  Dorothy Thompson (1957). “The Courage to be Happy”

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• I have children. I have other concerns. I have other focuses. I really feel very sympathetic and I would love to be able to help but I don't see this as the opportunity, having done 'Extraordinary measures', for me to suddenly leap on a soap box and begin to talk about the pharmaceutical industry or the desperate plight of sick children. I do what I can in my world but I don't have the bona fides to do that right now.

  Harrison Ford

  Children, Opportunity, Sick

  "Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser Interview EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES". collider.com. January 17, 2010.

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• Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its unspeakable horrors. This collective suffering has brought upon a readiness in many human beings for the evolutionary leap that is spiritual awakening.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Self, Humanity

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Gonzo leaps like a giraffe and grabs it.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

  Steve Earle

  Past, Pushing Forward, Reaching

  "Will Sheff Meets Steve Earle". Interview with Michael Tedder, www.spin.com. May 17, 2011.

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• In a corporate context, companies have to try very hard to oppose the enticements of conventional wisdom. They must aim for the leaps, which means that companies have to do more than simply manage their knowledge, which is composed of the insights and understandings they already know. They also have to manage the knowledge-generation process. It's not just about, "Oh, we're going to create a data warehouse and we are going to invent a computerized filing system to get at all the stuff we know."

  John Kao

  Mean, Data, Understanding

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man.

  William Wordsworth

  Heart, Men, Sky

  "My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold" l. 1 (1807). Wordsworth also used the last three lines as the epigraph for his poem "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" (1807). See Milton 43

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• If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick. . . But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn't she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye?

  Lisa See

  Mother, Suicide, Children

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• The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Two, Strategy, Dangerous

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• The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Discovery, Intuition

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• I never killed anyone. I avoid going over that edge by writing about a guy who has taken a flying leap over it.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Taken, Writing, Guy

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• My job scoring a horror movie is like being the barker at a carnival. A good barker can get anyone to walk into the roped-off tent. Especially with the main title, my job is to convince the audience to take the leap into the film even though their better sense is telling them, "I should put my popcorn down and get the hell outta here"!

  Christopher Young

  Horror, Film, Hell

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Clambering up the Cold Mountain path, The Cold Mountain trail goes on and on: The long gorge choked with scree and boulders, The wide creek, the mist-blurred grass. The moss is slippery, though there's been no rain The pine sings, but there's no wind. Who can leap the world's ties And sit with me among the white clouds?

  Gary Snyder

  Rain, Clouds, Wind

  Gary Snyder (2010). “Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems”, p.46, Counterpoint Press

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• Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hero, Simple, Hands

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.450, Simon and Schuster

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• Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ignorant, Doe, Want

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.94, Penguin

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• When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling pretty pleased with yourself and then accidently change down from fourth to first instead of third thus making your engine leap out of your hood in a rather ugly mess, it tends to throw you off stride in much the same way that this remark threw Ford Prefect off his.

  Douglas Adams

  Past, Car, Feelings

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.71, Pan Macmillan

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• And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself back on the edge of the cliff, blinking, wondering if I'd ever jumped at all. It's not supposed to be like this.

  Sarah Dessen

  Fall, Cliffs, Wonder

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “The Truth About Forever”, p.240, Penguin UK

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• Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps and jumps to the tune of words.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Athlete, Self, Dancer

  FaceBook post by Lynne Sharon Schwartz from Oct 22, 2014

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• And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?

  Carl Sagan

  Long, Tree, Savannah

  Carl Sagan (2012). “Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence”, p.87, Ballantine Books

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• it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Strange, Chaos

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.235, Collector's Library

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• Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck. Darwi Odrade - Chapterhouse: Dune

  Frank Herbert

  Player, Games, Missing

  Frank Herbert (2011). “Chapter House Dune: The Sixth Dune Novel”, p.38, Hachette UK

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• i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums but wotthehell wotthehell i wake the world from sleep as i caper and sing and leap when i sing my wild free tune wotthehell wotthehell under the blear eyed moon i am pelted with cast off shoon but wotthehell wotthehell

  Don Marquis

  Sleep, Moon, Oysters

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.272, Penguin

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• Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Reflection, Leap Of Faith

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