Leap Quotes

• One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Listening
  • Leap
  • Wayne

• The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

  

  William Lloyd Garrison
  • People
  • Enough
  • Resurrection

• Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Gods
  • Created
  • Afterworlds

• Risk is good. Not properly managing your risk is a dangerous leap.

  

  Evel Knievel
  • Risk
  • Leap
  • Managing

• I have a big-picture outlook, I am willing to fall, and I understand it's ok to fall, but I am going to get back up, I may take a step back, but in the end, I am going to take a giant leap forward.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Fall
  • Leap
  • Big-picture

• The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Way
  • Steps
  • Series

• it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Dream
  • Strange
  • Chaos

• My cousin Georgia says that boys are like gazelles. She says the get alarmed when they get close to girls. And they have to leap off into the woods like gazelles in trousers. Or have I just made that up?

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Up
  • She
  • Girl

• A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.

  

  Harvey Mackay
  • Accomplishment
  • Forward
  • Starting

• It's a big leap for us. We think it will show the world the next step for on-demand computing, just as we showed the world the first step.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • World
  • Step
  • Leap

• I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Firsts
  • Grows
  • Wings

• Evangelion (that we call the gospel) is a Greek word and signifieth good, merry, glad and joyful tidings, that maketh a man's heart glad and maketh him sing, dance, and leap for joy.

  

  William Tyndale
  • Heart
  • Joy
  • Greek

• 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
  • Firsts
  • Happens
  • Hours

• I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Matter
  • Source

• It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Great
  • Small
  • Steps

• Life is not being sure what will come next or how it will come. We guess at everything we do. We take leap after leap in the dark and that's the joy of living and the beauty of faith. When we grow tired, when we sit still, that's when we begin to die.... One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

  

  Angela Elwell Hunt
  • Life
  • Long
  • Joy

• If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Wonder
  • Needs
  • Demand

• Do the knowledge, meaning: look, listen, observe, and also respect. If you do that, you'll have a strong foundation to build anything you want to do in life upon. Know before you do. Look before you leap. And if you want to follow in my footsteps, make sure you step in the ones that went in the right direction.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Strong
  • Leap
  • Footsteps

• There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Believe
  • Intellectual
  • Proof

• And I felt a sudden whirl in my head, knowing this leap was inevitable, that I wasn't just standing on the cliff, toes poking over, but already in mid-air.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Air
  • Inevitable
  • Cliffs

• How! leap into the pit our life to save? To save our life leap all into the grave.

  

  William Cowper
  • Suicide
  • Graves
  • Pits

• It's not reckless, because when we leap, when we dive in, when we begin, only begin, we bring our true nature to the project, we make it personal and urgent. And it's not abandon, not in the sense that we've abandoned our senses or our responsibility. In fact, abandoning the fear of fear that is holding us back is the single best way not to abandon the work, the pure execution of the work. Later, there's time to backpedal and water down. But right now, reckless please.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Responsibility
  • Water
  • Execution

• Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds.

  

  Will Friedle
  • Writing
  • Shows
  • Bounds

• I used to try and take things in leaps and bounds. Now I've realized it's got to be step by step.

  

  Tommy Bolin
  • Used
  • Steps
  • Bounds

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