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• There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.

  James Dyson

  Persistence, Looks, Ends

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• Leap through the Mystery of death as the circus-rider leaps through the papered hoop ... find Life ambling along beneath us on the Other Side.

  Sidney Lanier

  Mystery Of Death, Circus, Sides

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• The Gospel does not require anything good that man must furnish: not a good heart, not a good disposition, no improvement of his condition, no godliness, no love either of God or men…….. It plants love into his heart and makes him capable of all good works. It demands nothing, but it gives all. Should not this fact make us leap for JOY?

  C. F. W. Walther

  Love, God, Work

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• I have never been able to wear a hat. My hair is peculiar in that it grows so fast that any hat I put on instantly leaps from my head.

  Nancy Spain

  Clothes, Hair, Hats

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• The indwelling of Christ is a thought particularly fit for the children, because their large faith does not stumble at the mystery, their imagination leaps readily to the marvel, that the King Himself should inhabit a little child's heart.

  Charlotte Mason

  Kings, Children, Heart

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “Home Education”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.

  Robert Genn

  Thinking, Greatness, Roots

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• One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

  Stella Adler

  Imagination, Acting, Way

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.71, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside.

  Saint Basil

  Faith, Inspiration, Healing

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• I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust [tree].

  Davy Crockett

  Horse, Turtles, Ohio

  Davy Crockett (1834). “Sketches and eccentricities of Col. David Crockett,: of West Tennessee”, p.164

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• A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim.

  Emily Dickinson

  Hurt, Spring, Rocks

  Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

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• When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery like soil fertility gives way to the hubris that we can treat nature as a machine. Once that leap has been made, one input follows another, so that when the synthetic nitrogen fed to plants makes them more attractive to insects and vulnerable to disease, as we have discovered, the farmer turns to chemical pesticides to fix his broken machine.

  Michael Pollan

  Appreciation, Mistake, Ignorance

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• The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Ladders, Way

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• If we all leap before we crawl, we might fall.

  Lisa Loeb

  Fall, Expression, Might

  Song: Wishing Heart, Album: Firecracker, 2006

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• I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Believe, Gay, Thinking

  Interview with Michael Barbaro, www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2010.

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• The challenging part is in the beginning; its a leap of faith. But I think the most important thing is to just do it. Start.

  Tom Szaky

  Thinking, Challenges, Important

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• I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: 'If I sit down and do this, everything will come out okay.'

  Stephen King

  Writing, Creating, House

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• Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon, on which I am mounted, see how he bends his once stiff neck to his rider, champing his checked bit and pawing the dust, impatient to leap around the globe. Genius is prescient, foresees its own might. Man is striving through these iron-ribbed, steam-sped hippogriffs, to recover his lost ubiquity and omnipotence, and threatens soon to grasp in his ample palm, and fix with flaming eye-ball, the elemental forces!

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Eye, Men, Dragons

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, 'Arise, ye more than dead!' Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.

  John Dryden

  Men, Order, Voice

  'A Song for St Cecilia's Day' (1687) st. 1

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• But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.

  Peter Watts

  Self, Brain, Doe

  Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.220, Head of Zeus

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• Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone - all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it.

  Albert Camus

  Morning, Yield, Waiting

  "Lyrical and Critical Essays (Letter to P.B.)". Book by Albert Camus, 1967.

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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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• William 'Big Bill' Rockefeller, who sold cancer 'cures' from a medicine wagon, taught him to leap into his arms from a tall chair. One time his father held his arms out to catch him but pulled them away as little John jumped. The fallen son was told sternly, 'Remember, never trust anyone completely, not even me.'

  Jim Marrs

  Father, Cancer, Son

  "Rule By Secrecy: The Hidden History that Connects the Trilateral Commision, the Freemasons and the Great Pyramids". Book by Jim Marrs, April 26, 2000.

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• Didn't I seize the fire of ideas and make them leap, tear, fly, sing

  Tom Paulin

  Fire, Ideas, Tears

  Tom Paulin (2011). “Seize the Fire: A Version of Aeschylus's 'Prometheus Bound'”, p.10, Faber & Faber

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• The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with art. I am often, in my writing, great leaps ahead of where I am in my thinking, and my thinking has to work its way slowly up to what the "superconscious" has already shown me in a story or poem.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.

  Coventry Patmore

  Firsts, Creation, Fountain

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.12, Lulu.com

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