Leap Quotes
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Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that's the moment between you and remarkable.
Seth Godin
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You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.
Vincent Schiavelli
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I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
Thomas Hobbes
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Art is a leap into the dark.
Pablo Picasso
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Every great move forward in your life begins with a leap of faith, a step into the unknown.
Brian Tracy
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To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.
William James
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It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act; in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.
William Sloane Coffin
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Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
Stanley Kubrick
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The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step.
Regina Brett
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The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.
Steve Martin
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We will leap tall couplets in a single bound.
Ishmael Reed
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Michael Jordan on the court is a completely different guy. If the play requires him to leap out all the way and grab the ball, that's what he'll do. He may be a completely shy, withdrawn sort of person [off the court].
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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I--love's skein upon the ground, My body in the tomb-- Shall leap into the light lost In my mother's womb.
William Butler Yeats
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Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.
Jhumpa Lahiri
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“The distance between one historical period and another is a very small step in comparison to the huge metaphysical gap we must leap to understand the perspective of another person in any time or place.”
E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
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Nature does not proceed by leaps.
Carl Linnaeus
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Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a shadow that he can conjure up. A leap from this bridge will set me free.
Ernst Junger
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Every great leap in life comes after you have made a clear decision of some kind.
Brian Tracy
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Its time to trust my instincts, close my eyes and leap.
Stephen Schwartz
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Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance....Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms the Darwinian selection mechanism for small-scale changes, but hardly warrants the grand extrapolation that Darwinists want. It is a huge leap going from insects developing insecticide resistance via the Darwinian mechanism of natural selection and random variation to the very emergence of insects in the first place by that same mechanism.
William A. Dembski
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I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life, like a whirlwind. She's ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play.
Jessica Brown Findlay