Quotes About Leap

Sometimes a leap of faith doesn't pan out.

Why, given their advanced mathematical ideas, did the Arabs not proceed to probability theory and risk management? The answer, I believe, has to do with their view of life. Who determines our future: the fates, the gods, or ourselves? The idea of risk management emerges only when people believe that they are to some degree free agents. Like the Greeks and the early Christians, the fatalistic Muslims were not yet ready to take the leap.

Richard was born on February 29, 1960, at 2:07 A.M.

Love is that as well, I was forgetting: it is taking a huge gamble, staking your all on a single improbable throw, jumping off a cliff and trusting an unknown person to catch you before you hit the ground.

Other people snap up the riskless profits pretty fast and bid the price of calculable risk opportunities to near their fair values. Things get a lot less crowded if you go for the incalculable risks, leaps of faith that cannot be inspected carefully before takeoff. So that is where you find extraordinary opportunities.

In the end we make a choice to believe. That's how the Creed begins, 'credo' in Latin: I choose to believe these truths; I choose to build my life upon this foundation; I have decided that if I must take a leap of faith, I'll take this leap of faith rather than the other.

The great leap was one from adaptation to, to control over the natural environment.

The art of strategic decision- making includes a witty leap forward with high volition.

When you're mad it becomes easy to solve many difficult problems. Madness is a pair of Arabian Nights shoes; if you put them on you can leap clear of thousands of bogus questions.' 'Bogus questions? What exactly do you mean by bogus?' 'For instance, what will people say? What will happen in the future?

First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Jump and let's build our wings on the way down

Salta, y deja que te crezcan alas en el camino hacia abajo.

finding the highest cliff to jump off.

we are at this moment participating in one of the very greatest leaps of the human spirit to a knowledge not only of our outside nature but also of our own deep inward mystery.

Hi! handsome hunting man Fire your little gun. Bang! Now the animal is dead and dumb and done. Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again, Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh, what fun!

He who would leap high must take a long run.

When she spread her wings and leaped screeching into the air she had not the slightest doubt that every hand below her would stretch to catch her. And if one could leap from a height with no fear of falling, could one not be said to possess the secret of flight? Just like a bird, just like a god.

There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

NASA has this phrase that they like: 'Failure is not an option.' But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration, because it's a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks. So, that's the thought I would leave you with, is that in whatever you're doing, failure is an option, but fear is not.

You feel that you have grown in confidence, savviness, wisdom and discipline and above all learned how to take care of yourself as there is only one of you. And you want to bake another cake, by this time you will already know what it is, trust me as it will come to you as once you take your first leap and jump off the cliff and follow through with discipline of baking your first cake all other cake recipes just come to you like a light bulb over your head

It is with this thought that many believers would call up Kierkegaard's famous phrase, the 'leap of faith,' pictured perhaps as a leap from here to there, leaving out the in-between... What is usually overlooked, however, is that Kierkegaard said nothing about a safe landing; there was only the leap, and no guarantee of solid ground beyond it.