Leap Quotes - Page 26

• The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Ideas, Common, Bigs

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• You can't solve many of today's problems by straight linear thinking. It takes leaps of faith to sense the connections that are not necessarily obvious.

  Matina Horner

  Life, Thinking, Connections

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• Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow.

  Andrew Tudor

  Historical, Hollywood, Film

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• The process could be likened to relaxing on a riverbank and watching a fish leap out of the water, sparkle for a moment in the sunlight, then dive back in a graceful arc. There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.

  Bill Vaughan

  Sight, Water, Meditation

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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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• How! leap into the pit our life to save?
  To save our life leap all into the grave.

  William Cowper

  Suicide, Pits, Graves

  William Cowper (1820). “Poems: In two volumes. Embellished with engravings, and a sketch of his life”, p.339

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• to leap is not only to leap, it is to hit the ground somewhere.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Elizabeth Bowen (1952). “The house in Paris”

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• Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

  Robin Morgan

  Energy, Connections, Metaphor

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism in Four Dimensions”, p.270, Open Road Media

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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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• 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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• First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

  Hortense Calisher

  Dream, Book, Reading

  Hortense Calisher (1974). “Herself”

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• a local train ... moved gently off up the line with a very singular motion indeed, in which the leap of a frog, the bounce of a pogo-stick, and the canter of a very short fat pony all were brought to mind.

  Honor Tracy

  Mind, Ponies, Lines

  Honor Tracy (1957). “Silk Hats and No Breakfast: Notes on a Spanish Journey”, New York, Random House [1958

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• An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or blood. Cruelty begins with the memory, and the pleasures of the memory are impure; they draw their strength along levels where no sun has reached.

  Storm Jameson

  Memories, Animal, Blood

  Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.50, A&C Black

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• In Europe, war is a disease which has been in the family for generations: no one is surprised when it makes another leap. Even the patient only attends to it with part of his mind.

  Storm Jameson

  War, Europe, Mind

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• It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.

  Olive Schreiner

  Cutting, Men, Ice

  Olive Schreiner (1998). “Woman and Labor”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

  Winifred Holtby

  People, Mind, Body

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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• Marriage is a leap of faith. You are each other's safety net.

  Erica Bauermeister

  Safety, Leap Of Faith, Safety Net

  Erica Bauermeister (2009). “The School of Essential Ingredients”, p.47, Penguin

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• A man's love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to the sanctities of home, and to the thoughts which leap up from his father's graves.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Father, Lying, Home

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• I used to tiptoe up to my bedroom door and leap into my room in an attempt to surprise my dolls in the midst of some kind of action. Unfortunately, they were always too quick for me. I'm still disappointed about that.

  Marion Dane Bauer

  Doors, Dolls, Rooms

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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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• All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race because they can leap over barriers, religions, leap over barriers of race, politics.

  Pete Seeger

  Sports, Art, Believe

  Source: nysmusic.com

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• I liked writing, and I loved movies, obsessively loved movies, but I had never made the leap of thinking I would actually come out here and write stuff.

  Robert Ben Garant

  Writing, Thinking, Stuff

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Leap hearts to lips, and in our kisses meet.

  John William Fletcher

  Heart, Kissing, Lips

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• From talk radio to insult radio wasn't really that much of a leap.

  Leonore Fleischer

  Media, Radio, Insult

  Leonore Fleischer (1991). “The Fisher King”, New Amer Library

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• You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Wish, Might, Next

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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