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Quotes About Leap

Ambition untempered by caution is like a river in flood. It leaps from its natural channels to forge the shortest course, and it sweeps away all in its path. Do not get swept away
~ Jacqueline Carey
I am looking for projects that challenge me, make me uncomfortable, and also projects that are in the hands of the right team. Then it's up to me to take a leap of faith.
~ Taapsee Pannu
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
~ Walter Bagehot
We are all born to fly. Instead, we sit on the branches afraid of the leap into the unknown. But the unknown is where enlightenment lives. Our true nature is the unknown.
~ Enza Vita
Timing can be everything and wisdom requires the patience to wait as well as the courage to leap when the time becomes right.
~ Michael Meade, The Genius Myth
A step towards love is a leap towards the divine.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.
~ Starhawk
Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
~ Julia Cameron
Don't you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!
~ Ken Watanabe
The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.
~ Eric Hoffer
I watched the children leap onto the buses like reverse paratroopers.
~ Nicholson Baker
I think I am going to die of anguish. I cannot do it. I do not have the strength any longer to begin. My mind is fully armed, but I am unable to take the frightening leap.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Do you know what happens when you always look before you leap? She reached out and touched his hand before hurrying toward the door. You hardly ever make the jump.
~ Nora Roberts
And Grant Campbell was about to take a short walk off a high cliff.
~ Nora Roberts
Sabes o que acontece quando olhamos sempre antes de saltar? - perguntou ela, tocando-lhe na mão antes de desaparecer porta fora. - Nunca chegamos a saltar.
~ Nora Roberts
When they say to one another, 'May the Force be with you,' it is precisely this that they mean: It is a wish that when the time comes to leap into the void and to make a decision based on instinct and trust, you are rewarded for that act and not punished. The hope is that if you meet the galaxy halfway, it meets you in the middle and carries you the rest of the distance.
~ Chuck Wendig
Were there not trees and grass? he asked. Were these not the signals of freedom? Had he not always leapt forward directly Miss Mitford started on her walk? Why was he a prisoner here? He paused. Here, he observed, the flowers were massed far more thickly than at home; they stood, plant by plant, rigidly in narrow plots.
~ Virginia Woolf
Get focused on (..) understanding how to deliver a leap in value to buyers
~ W. Chan Kim
The creators of blue oceans, surprisingly, didn't use the competition as their benchmark.17 Instead, they followed a different strategic logic that we call value innovation. Value innovation is the cornerstone of blue ocean strategy. We call it value innovation because instead of focusing on beating the competition, you focus on making the competition irrelevant by creating a leap in value for buyers and your company, thereby opening up new and uncontested market space.
~ W. Chan Kim
We call it value innovation because instead of focusing on beating the competition, you focus on making the competition irrelevant by creating a leap in value for buyers and your company, thereby opening up new and uncontested market space.
~ W. Chan Kim
You're a dark, dangerous storm, Nathan," She tilted her head back, her glacial blue eyes arresting, even in the darkness of the club. "If i'm not carful I'm going to leap off a cliff with you.
~ Lara Adrian
When a plunge is to be made into the water, it's of no use lingering on the bank.
~ Charles Dickens
February 29th: A birthday so awesome that the world can only handle it once every 4 years!
~ Internet meme, c. 2008
It takes three springs to make one leap year.
~ The Comic Almanack, c. 1852