Leap Quotes - Page 36

• Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person.

  William Fritz

  Heart, Empathy, Joy

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• We shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate in their own destruction. They will leap at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we will smash them with our clenched fist.

  Dmitry Manuilsky

  Country, Stupid, Communication

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• The other, the other aspect when I say I'm an actor is that as an actor you make this imaginative leap into being somebody else, that's to say the muscle of the imagination is as important as any other of the muscles in your body, and so it is something about this instinct in space and time which for me I associate with being an actor rather than a director.

  Simon McBurney

  Space, Imagination, Important

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• Quantum Leap Thinking [is] an opportunity to get our energy out and target it in the direction of great productivity, leaving us with a feeling of accomplishment.

  Leon Tec

  Opportunity, Thinking, Accomplishment

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• It seems to me that society usually wins. There are, to be sure, free spirits in the world, but their freedom, in the last analysis, is not much greater than that of a canary in a cage. They may leap from perch to perch; they may bathe and guzzle at their will; they may flap their wings and sing. But they are still in the cage, and soon or late it conquers them.

  H. L. Mencken

  Winning, Wings, Free Spirit

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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, Leap Of Faith

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• How many leaps did Nijinksy take before he made the one that startled the world? He took thousands and thousands and it is that legend that gives us the courage, the energy, and arrogance to go back into the studio knowing that while there is so little time to be born to the instant, you will work again among the many that you may once more be born as one. That is a dancer's world.

  Martha Graham

  Knowing, Giving, Dancer

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

  Billy Bragg

  Sleep, Waiting, Activist

  Song: Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

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• Creative living, or the life of a creator, seems like a leap into the unknown only because "normal life" is rigid and traumatized.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Creative, Normal, Life Is

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.122, Penguin

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• What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.

  Terence McKenna

  Mushrooms, Dmt, Might

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• There is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and contradictory nation that still makes my spirits soar and my heart leap with optimism and belief. If only they understood how to make a cup of tea.

  Stephen Fry

  Heart, Simple, Optimism

  Stephen Fry, Vanda Vucicevic (2008). “Stephen Fry in America”, Harpercollins Pub Ltd

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• There comes a moment... When imagination gives out and Reality leaps forth. It is frightful!

  August Strindberg

  Reality, Giving, Imagination

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• Your actions will follow you full circle round,the higher the leap, I said, the harder the ground!

  Amy Ray

  Circles, Full Circle, Action

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• I read that nine out of 10 women fantasize about having an unknown man leap through their bedroom window at night and make mad, passionate love to them. Who would think with those odds, I would now be facing 150 hours of community service.

  Emo Philips

  Men, Thinking, Night

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• In the deepest realm of being, is the imagination of ourselves. What is your next evolutionary leap? What are you imagining, (for yourself) right now?

  Deepak Chopra

  Imagination, Next, Realms

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• We need the private sector's help, because government is not innovating. Technology is running ahead by leaps and bound. The private sector will help, just as I helped after 9/11. But they must be engaged, and they must be asked. I will ask them. I know them.

  Ted Cruz

  Running, Technology, Government

  The fifth Republican debate, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• The caliber of play in professional football compared to college is better and everybody knows it. They don't realize how much better. What a giant leap forward in the ability of talent level, the speed, and even the grasp of what you are trying to do. There is no other distractions before the players.

  Marv Levy

  Football, Player, College

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. December 24, 2004.

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• And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.

  Black Elk

  Flames, Color, Rainbow

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• Before me is the abyss. How can I leap across it? And if I do not leap, how shall I ever be able to reach God?

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Able, Abyss, Ifs

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• Any good movie or script usually, if they're doing their job, gives the highest platform possible for an actor to leap off of, and that script was very high up there. It was a very smart, tight script. There was a lot of improv, as well, once we got to the set, but a lot of the original script was also in there.

  Justin Theroux

  Jobs, Smart, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• Is it a bad sign when someone asks you about the person your dating and a tear falls from your eye as you leap into oncoming traffic?

  Dov Davidoff

  Fall, Eye, Dating

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• My generation came at a time when photography was advancing by leaps and bounds, creating the impulse to experiment and seek new approaches.

  Gjon Mili

  Photography, Creating, Generations

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• No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music, that we should beginwith the simple exercises firstand slowly go on tryingthe hard ones, practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.

  Adrienne Rich

  Exercise, Simple, Goes On

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• Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

  Doug Larson

  Life, Hilarious, Food

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• If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.

  Adyashanti

  Self, Chosen, Ifs

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