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• Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Faith, Courage, Dark

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.167, A&C Black

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• The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim toward that which is difficult. You abandon your comforting and familiar habits with the hope (the mere hope!) that something greater will be offered you in return for what you have given up.. if we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be.. a prudent insurance policy.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Destiny, Order, Swim

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• Klout and various measurements of influence are fun. I love to see where I score on them, but there's a computer algorithm behind the calculation. If there's an algorithm, it can be gamed. Even if it's not gameable, you have to take a leap of faith that the number of followers, retweets, mentions, whatever really mean something.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Fun, Mean, Numbers

  "Interview: Guy Kawasaki on reciprocity, influencers, ecosystems and the art of enchantment". Bazaarvoice blog Interview, blog.bazaarvoice.com. March 17, 2011.

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• There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.

  A. Scott Berg

  Editors, Broken, Fiction And Nonfiction

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• So carry your courage in an easily accessible place, the way you do your cellphone or your wallet. You may still falter or fail, but you always know that you pushed hard and aimed high. Take a leap of faith. Fear not. Courage is the ultimate career move.

  Anna Quindlen

  Moving, Careers, May

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• The medieval theologian who gazed at the night sky through the eyes of Aristotle and saw angels moving the spheres in harmony has become the modern cosmologist who gazes at the same sky through the eyes of Einstein and sees the hand of God not in angels but in the constants of nature. When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it¹s very tempting to take the leap of faith from science into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I only wish they would admit it.

  Tony Rothman

  Moving, Eye, Angel

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• Having children-the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings-is the biggest job anyone can embark on. You have to take a leap of faith and ask lots of people for their help and guidance.

  Maria Shriver

  Inspirational, Jobs, Children

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• Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue that can be the wing of a bug or a thought. It makes our invisible visible.

  Squeak Carnwath

  Believe, Reality, Blue

  Squeak Carnwath, John Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.) (1994). “Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery”

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• My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or just not giving a sh-t to write something you know people are going to criticize.

  Conor Oberst

  Writing, Thinking, Self

  "Desaparecidos' Conor Oberst: We're perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying". Interview with Jessica Goodman, ew.com. July 07, 2015.

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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, Television, Roulette

  "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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• A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there's a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith. The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else, trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer's intent. How childish to think that could be easy.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

  "Brava, Valentine: A Novel". Book by Adriana Trigiani, March 16, 2010.

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• With such a perishable, expensive and important product buying truffles can be a leap of faith for a chef. Working with Céline over the past two years has taken away any of that stress. The level of quality and consistency with her truffles is unsurpassed. Most importantly the quality and loyalty of her service makes me feel that she is looking out for me and my guests interests in giving me an honest assessment of the markets fluctuations.

  Douglas Keane

  Loyalty, Stress, Taken

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• Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.'

  Amy Adams

  Moving, Thinking, World

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• Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Philosophical, Risk, Height

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• The Christian faith does not call for us to put our minds on the shelf, to fly in the face of common sense and history, or to make a leap of faith into the dark. The rational person, fully apprised of the evidence, can confidently believe.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Believe, Dark

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• No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

  Tony Visconti

  Faith, Musician, Enormous

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• Although knowledge of structure is helpful, real creativity comes from leaps of faith in which you jump to something illogical. But those leaps form the memorable moments in movies and plays.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Real, Memorable, Creativity

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• If you are ever going to achieve as much as you can in a sport, you are going to have to be willing to make a leap of faith to learn how much your body can handle.

  Meredith Rainey-Valmon

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Creative, Lines

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• Surfing is all about uncertainty. That feeling of taking a risk, that leap of faith every time I jump into the ocean, that paddle out among things unseen — all of these make surfing very special

  Shaun Tomson

  Ocean, Feelings, Surfing

  Shaun Tomson, Patrick J. Moser (2006). “Surfer's Code: 12 Simple Lessons for Riding Through Life”, p.179, Gibbs Smith

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• To believe in Jesus, is to believe that the historic person who lived on this earth more than 2000 years ago was the image of the invisible God. That's a huge leap of faith, but it is my leap of faith, it's the act of faith of the Christian community.

  Richard Rohr

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• There was a period of time between 2005 and 2008 that was pretty challenging. I had taken a leap of faith and moved to Los Angeles from New York, which had been incredible to me professionally. I couldn't get arrested in this town. There was a lot of doubt and fear that crept in, and boy, did insecurity stick her foot up in it. There were many obstacles that were overcome during that very dark period - creative, financial, emotional, and spiritual - and I'm here, standing, stronger than ever.

  Erica Tazel

  Spiritual, New York, Taken

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• To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God.

  Julia Sweeney

  Sides, Certain, Evidence

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• The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.

  Eric Ries

  Cutting, People, Entrepreneur

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• I don't need anyone to look after me financially and, while it's hard to trust that a man loves you for the right reasons, you have to take a leap of faith.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Love You, Men, Needs

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