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Quotes About Leap

What made Leonardo a genius, what set him apart from people who are merely extraordinarily smart, was creativity, the ability to apply imagination to intellect. His facility for combining observation with fantasy allowed him, like other creative geniuses, to make unexpected leaps that related things seen to things unseen. "Talent hits a target that no one else can hit," wrote the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. "Genius hits a target no one else can see.
~ Walter Isaacson
Hey budding entrepreneurs, here is what you can do - Jump right in & make every mistake that everyone made before you when they jumped right in. Or, read up/study from those who have made the leap or work first for those currently leaping…
~ Chase LeBlanc
What's important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart.
~ Cheryl Strayed
I didn't exactly want to get divorced. I didn't exactly not want to. I believed in almost equal measure both that divorcing Paul was the right thing to do and that by doing so I was destroying the best thing I had. By then my marriage had become like the trail in that moment when I realized there was a bull in both directions. I simply made a leap of faith and pushed on in the direction where I'd never been.
~ Cheryl Strayed
By then my marriage had become like the trail in that moment when I realized there was a bull in both directions. I simply made a leap of faith and pushed on in the direction where I've never been.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Thirty dayes hath November, April, June, and September, Twenty and eyght hath February alone, And all the rest thirty and one, But in the leape you must add one.
~ William Harrison, 1577
Philosophy is a mental leap, between approach and identification with wisdom.
~ Haimer abdou
O Thou steeled Cognizance whose leap commits The agile precincts of the lark's return; Within whose lariat sweep encinctured sing In single chrysalis the many twain — Of stars Thou art the stitch and stallion glow And like an organ, Thou, with sound of doom — Sight, sound and flesh Thou leadest from time's realm As love strikes clear direction for the helm
~ Hart Crane
Green little vaulter in the sunny grass.
~ Leigh Hunt
figuratively jumping
~ Lemony Snicket
Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of those odd moth-like creatures who seem to combine extreme discomfort with the spotlight with an unstoppable compulsion to leap into it.
~ Craig Brown
I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.
~ T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
I want to believe, he heard himself say. Victoria's reply carried no judgement or challenge. So why don't you? He chuckled. Well, it's not that easy. Having faith requires leaps of faith, cerebral acceptance of miracles, immaculate conceptions an divine interventions
~ Dan Brown
You know, I don't at all hesitate to be a bit utopian about all this because I think hope is itself an act, a very big leap, which in a sense defies the grim facts always about us and opens up new ways of thinking about things.
~ Daniel Berrigan
Vulnerability doesn't come after trust—it precedes it. Leaping into the unknown, when done alongside others, causes the solid ground of trust to materialize beneath our feet.
~ Daniel Coyle
it began to be noted that the Wig had gone over the edge. Specifically, the Finn said, the Wig had become convinced that God lived in cyberspace, or perhaps that cyberspace was God, or some new manifestation of same. The Wig's ventures into theology tended to be marked by major paradigm shifts, true leaps of faith.
~ William Gibson
Because," said Mr. Lemoncello, "it's a trampoline.
~ Chris Grabenstein
This is like telling a person who has leapt off a cliff to be careful. I am already in midair.
~ Christina Baker Kline
She wishes them not luck or money; they will have both, as much as they want, or is necessary. Instead she wishes them fearlessness in all things: in love, yes, but also in work, in expectation, in the leap from the high rocks, in looking back, and in forgetting.
~ Christopher Castellani
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
~ Henry Miller
there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep
~ Leonard Cohen
Well, I've always thought that my career was in England, really. I used to do more in the theatre, and I felt that I should be there. It's not far is it? It's amazing the way that special FX have taken a quantum leap in what they're capable of doing.
~ Albert Finney
I made him walk on a lead and he jumped for joy, the way creatures do, and children do and adults don't do, and spend their lives wondering where the leap went.
~ Jeanette Winterson
But maybe, she told herself, the squirrels had felt themselves falling and leaped to safety. The key was to know when you were falling.
~ Unknown