Leap Quotes - Page 27

• Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but youre still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Love Is, Jumping, Trying

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• To this day, The Duke and I remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.

  Julia Quinn

  Writing, Heart, Dukes

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• I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it.

  David Attenborough

  Running, Sitting, Half

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• We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.

  George Herbert

  May, Littles, Ends

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.187

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• Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall in love with the handsome prince, travel to exotic places, and take the leap that almost always had a happy ending.

  Teresa Mummert

  Falling In Love, Book, Reading

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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, Leap Of Faith

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• Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.

  Susan Sontag

  Writing, Giving, Way

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• Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then natural philosophy became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time theres a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Philosophy, Fields, Resentment

  "Has Physics Made Philosophy and Religion Obsolete?". Interview with Ross Andersen, www.theatlantic.com. Apr 23, 2012.

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• Customers can tell you how to evolve a product, but they can't show you how to make a leap.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Evolve, Shows, Customers

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• In prose, leaps of logic can be made while the protagonist thinks about things and arrives at conclusions. Even with voiceover, there's no real way of having an inner voice without it taking over the entire story.

  Denise Mina

  Real, Thinking, Voice

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• Indeterminism does not confer freedom on us: I would feel that my freedom was impaired if I thought that a quantum mechanical trigger in my brain might cause me to leap into the garden and eat a slug

  J. J. C. Smart

  Garden, Brain, Doe

  J. J. C. Smart, J. J. Haldane (2008). “Atheism and Theism”, p.63, John Wiley & Sons

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• Everyone is aware of the fact that visual and auditive perspective are identical; the only difference being that they are created and perceived by two physically different organs, the eye and the ear. How often the playing of a great master makes us think of a picture with a deep background and varying planes; the figures in the foreground almost leap out of the frame whereas in the background the mountains and clouds are lost in a blue haze.

  Heinrich Neuhaus

  Eye, Thinking, Clouds

  Genrikh Gustavovich Neĭgauz, Heinrich Neuhaus (1973). “The art of piano playing”, Longwood Pr Ltd

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• Fear cannot exist in the presence of faith. Fear only exists because you feel that you are not in control. Give up the need to be in control, take a leap in faith and fear will vanish as the mists in the morning sun.

  John Harricharan

  Morning, Giving Up, Needs

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• If P=NP, then the world would be a profoundly different place than we usually assume it to be. There would be no special value in “creative leaps,” no fundamental gap between solving a problem and recognizing the solution once it's found. Everyone who could appreciate a symphony would be Mozart; everyone who could follow a step-by-step argument would be Gauss; everyone who could recognize a good investment strategy would be Warren Buffett.

  Scott Aaronson

  Symphony, Appreciate, Creative

  "Reasons to Believe". Personal blog post, www.scottaaronson.com. September 04, 2006.

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• That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of speciesists. Tie the label Homo sapiens even to a tiny piece of insensible embryonic tissue, and its life suddenly leaps to infinite, incomputable value.... Self-styled pro-lifers, and others that indulge in footling debates about exactly when in its development a foetus becomes human, exhibit the same discontinuous mentality. Human, to the discontinuous mind, is an absolutist concept. There can be no half measures. And from this flows much evil.

  Richard Dawkins

  Self, Indulge In, Ties

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• Everything beautiful that we create in life requires a leap of faith.

  Paul Budnitz

  Beautiful, Leap Of Faith

  "Say 'Ello' to the Guy Who Invented an Alternative to Facebook" by Alyssa Newcomb, abcnews.go.com. September 30, 2014.

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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, Leap Of Faith

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• If we take a small step in extolling peacemakers as much as honoring war heroes, we will be making a giant leap towards peace.

  Newton Lee

  War, Hero, Small Steps

  Newton Lee (2013). “Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness”, p.208, Springer Science & Business Media

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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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• Sweet May lies fresh before us, To life the young flowers leap, And through the Heaven's blue o'er us The rosy cloudlets sweep.

  Heinrich Heine

  Sweet, Lying, Flower

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.221

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• I think fear... tends to hold people back from really pursuing their dreams. Basically: LEAP! And the net will appear.

  Bif Naked

  Dream, Thinking, People

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• As long as we are a single-planet species, we are vulnerable to extinction by a planetwide catastrophe, natural or self-induced. Once we become a multiplanet species, our chances to live long and prosper will take a huge leap skyward.

  David Grinspoon

  Moon, Self, Long

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• Skydiving is something I've never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women.

  Anne Bancroft

  Community, Done, Courageous

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• I actually think that bass is probably the instrument that has evolved in a quantum leap compared to other instruments. It's the instrument that's evolved the most, especially with how it's perceived. And even how it's played, and how it's viewed from a point of view of commerce, like with the music industry.

  Stanley Clarke

  Thinking, Views, Bass

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• Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.

  Jay Griffiths

  Space, Example, Needs

  " The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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