Leap Quotes - Page 34

• Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.

  Lord Byron

  Farewell, Sea, Sky

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Second”

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• I think that you appreciate that there are extraordinary men and women and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs of these individuals, that what can be imagined can be achieved, that you must dare to dream, but that there's no substitute for perseverance and hard work and teamwork because no one gets there alone; and that, while we commemorate the... the greatness of these events and the individuals who achieve them, we cannot forget the sacrifice of those who make these achievements and leaps possible.

  Chris Carter

  Teamwork, Dream, Perseverance

  Matt Hurwitz, Chris Carter (2009). “The Complete X-Files: Behind the Series, the Myths, and the Movies”, Insight Editions

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• Setting can be something that is a major player in a scene, something that makes the mood leap from the page. But if an author doesn't handle it right, it falls flat or seems overdone. It is a challenge getting it "just right".

  Kim Smith

  Fall, Player, Challenges

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• Acting is an imaginative leap, really. And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.

  John Hurt

  Imagination, Trying, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love flinging everything I buy behind me onto the back-seat of the car: it's always full of packages when I travel, when I leap in my car!

  Sonia Rykiel

  Car, Behinds, Packages

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All the preparation in the world doesn't avail you if you can't make that imaginative leap and put yourself in the position of the characters you've created, to imagine what it's like to be somebody else.

  Michael Chabon

  Character, Preparation, World

  Interview with Elizabeth Benefiel, www.avclub.com. July 5, 2007.

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• I just think it's really funny and entertaining. I mean, I don't necessarily take them really seriously - I don't even think a lot of really good films get seen. But I don't think that's what it's about. I mean, how amazing was Ellen Burstyn in Requiem For A Dream ? Especially as she was acting with herself most of the time. I don't understand how a performance like that can't win. I was so affected by that movie that I had to turn it off. I felt as if I was on drugs and my heart was about to leap out of my body.

  Liv Tyler

  Movie, Dream, Heart

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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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• The secret of understanding poetry is to hear poetry's words as what they are: the full self's most intimate speech, half waking, half dream. You listen to a poem as you might listen to someone you love who tells you their truest day. Their words might weep, joke, whirl, leap. What's unspoken in the words will still be heard. It's also the way we listen to music: You don't look for extractable meaning, but to be moved.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Dream, Self, Understanding

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don't leap into my mind when I'm distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to music.

  Jane Hirshfield

  People, Silence, Listening

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Retrospect, Void, Impossible

  Source: deadline.com

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• If you're unwilling to leave someplace you've outgrown, you will never reach your full potential. To be the best, you have to constantly be challenging yourself, raising the bar, pushing the limits of what you can do. Don't stand still, leap forward.

  Ronda Rousey

  Challenges, Full Potential, Bars

  Ronda Rousey, Maria Burns Ortiz (2015). “My Fight / Your Fight”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• If we always take the path of least resistance, if we embrace inertia, if we never leap, if we never accept accountability for our choices, how can we find any triumph in our victories or any remorse in our losses?

  Allison Winn Scotch

  Loss, Accountability, Choices

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• Don't you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!

  Ken Watanabe

  Regret, Men, Waiting

  "Fictional character: Saito". "Inception", www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Marine, Air, Years

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• I think people who do comedy tend to do it well, and to do it painfully and truthfully. So making the leap to drama is easier for them because everything they've done is from pain anyway.

  Sandra Bullock

  Pain, Drama, Thinking

  Interview with Ryan Reynolds, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 26, 2009.

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• Shun the incremental and go for the leap.

  Jack Welch

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• Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only echo an almost prenatal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Running, Baby, Wine

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• The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being senses its kinship to God and leaps up in joyous recognition. That is the heavenly birth without which we cannot see the Kingdom of God. It is, however, not an end but an inception, for now begins the glorious pursuit, the heart's happy exploration of the infinite riches of the Godhead.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Riches, Kingdoms

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• I love listening to music with my mate. We don't do it often, but when we do we'll just sit there and lose our heads in it. Sooner or later he'll start saying something to the effect of "Hey, Thom, can you put in something else now?" but I'll just nod coldly and respond "not just yet". But after awhile, I'll finally budge. And that's when I crack a big smile and take out The Bends and put in Kid A. My friend just sighs and leaves the room, and I can't blame him. He's not ready for that leap yet.

  Thom Yorke

  Kids, Listening, Cracks

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• The more we practice risking to leap, the more proficient we become, the more our fears melt away, and we grow ever stronger in the doing.

  Gloria Feldt

  Practice, Stronger, Grows

  Gloria Feldt (2010). “No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think about Power”, p.316, Hachette UK

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• The very best garden is a new one, on virgin ground. Plants leap out of that spot.

  Janet Macunovich

  Garden, Plant, Spots

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• When I think upon my God, my heart is full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen.

  Joseph Haydn

  Heart, Thinking, Joy

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• What can you say about a man who leaps from a helicopter over Manhattan without a parachute in the hope that by increasing his heart rate he'll transform into an iridescent lime-green behemoth so he can take on an even bigger behemoth? That he knows he's living in a computer-generated universe in which gravity is a feeble suggestion and nothing is remotely at stake, and that when he hits the ground he'll be replaced by a special effect. The Incredible Hulk is weightless-as disposable as an Xbox game.

  David Edelstein

  Xbox, Heart, Men

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• Love flies, runs, leaps for joy; it is free and unrestrained. Love gives all for all, resting in One who is highest above all things, from whom every good flows and proceeds. Love does not regard the gifts, but turns to the Giver of all good gifts. Love knows no limits, but ardently transcends all bounds. Love feels no burden, takes no account of toil, attempts things beyond its strength; love sees nothing as impossible, for it feels able to achieve all things. Love therefore does great things; it is strange and effective; while he who lacks love faints and fails.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Running, Giving, Joy

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