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Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity. -- Astro Teller
Leaps look good in the movies, but in fact, success is mostly about finding a path and walking it one step at a time. -- Seth
The sky is changed,-and such a change! O night And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder. -- Lord Byron
Leaps over walls - especially when taken late in life - can be extremely perilous. To leap successfully, you need a sense of humor, the spirit of adventure and an unshakable conviction that what you are leaping over is an obstacle upon which you would otherwise fall down. -- Monica Baldwin
A wounded deer leaps the highest. -- Emily Dickinson
Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds. -- Carolus Linnaeus
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia. -- Alexis Carrel
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. -- Doug Larson
We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics. -- Joyce Meyer
Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes. -- Hilary Mantel
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. -- Maya Angelou
Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it's leaps and bounds more positive. -- Luke Bryan
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. -- Gloria Steinem
People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of them. -- James Dyson
The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too. -- Paul McCartney
In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points. -- Rich Lowry
Some tell me I'll break my ankle on my high heels - but I live in them. I'm known for doing speed dashes and leaps and bounds in heels. No problem. -- Kylie Bax
I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps. -- Peggy Noonan
In prose, leaps of logic can be made while the protagonist thinks about things and arrives at conclusions. Even with voiceover, there's no real way of having an inner voice without it taking over the entire story. -- Denise Mina
The most important advances, the qualitative leaps, are the least predictable. Not even the best scientists predicted the impact of nuclear physics, and everyday consumer items such as the iPhone would have seemed magic back in the 1950s. -- Martin Rees
The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer. -- Alfred Whitney Griswold
I think it's fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With 'True Blood,' you're not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters. -- Deborah Ann Woll
Technology will need to make many more huge leaps before one can ever view films with the level of picture and sound quality many film lovers demand without having to slide a disc into a player, especially with the technical requirements of today's 3D movies. -- Ridley Scott
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
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
Shakespeare is renewed each time you see it or read it. I've seen 'Midsummer Night's Dream' so many times, and each time it's a little different, or a different line leaps out at me. It's like re-reading a good book over and over, always noticing something you hadn't seen the time before - and that's rare. -- Michelle Dockery
The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure. -- Eric Ries
Until you go through with it yourself, you simply can't imagine it. But it is the transition of going back to work and the guilt of how much time you spend with your child that's hard. I worry about not getting back in time for bath-time. I am not a neurotic person at all, but every time the mobile rings, my stomach leaps. -- Phoebe Philo
You know what? I did a lot of things that were deliberate, and they all backfired. I was trying desperately to become Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler, and it did not work for me. I took a lot of leaps that I shouldn't have, traditionally speaking. I paid the price for that. I was not as hire-able for a while. But then I just gave all that up. -- Dax Shepard
Nature does not make leaps. -- Gottfried Leibniz
History doesn't crawl; it leaps. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nature does not proceed by leaps. -- Carl Linnaeus
Let every man look before he leaps. -- Miguel de Cervantes
My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice. -- Joseph Addison
Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs. -- Edward Young
Gonzo leaps like a giraffe and grabs it. -- Jerry Coleman
Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Acts of love, for me, are leaps of bravery. -- Anna White
Hope walks through the fire and faith leaps over it. -- Jim Carrey
Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
You accomplish victory step by step, not by leaps and bounds. -- Lyn St. James
Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers. -- Lauren Oliver
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections. -- Robin Morgan
The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds. -- Ace Frehley
I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes. -- Cecil Taylor
You don't climb a mountain in leaps and bounds, but by taking it slowly. -- Pope Gregory I
Since I've been in chiropractic, I've improved by leaps and bounds both mentally and physically. -- Michael Jordan
Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia. -- Alexis Carrel
He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly. -- Lauren Oliver
When I look into your eyes, one word leaps to my mind every time: Forever. -- Tina St. John
There comes a moment... When imagination gives out and Reality leaps forth. It is frightful! -- August Strindberg
He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock. -- Plautus
Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds. -- Will Friedle
Learning from the successes and failures of others is key to making quantum leaps toward our goals. -- Robin Crow
The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. -- William Shakespeare
I have Many Problems in My Life. But my leaps don`t know that. They always smile -- Charlie Chaplin
Preparation can only take you so far , after that you've got to take a few leaps of faith -- Michael Scofield
We had a word with him about diving and since then the lad's come on leaps and bounds. -- Billy Dodds
The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas. -- Nicholas Negroponte
'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes. -- Hilary Mantel
Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere -- Joan Didion
Most processes leave out the stuff no one wants to talk about: magic, intuition and leaps of faith. -- Michael Bierut
To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you. -- Keith Richards
The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way. -- Seth Godin
Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. -- Diane Ackerman
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
New questions can produce new scientific leaps. They can tiddlywink new flips of insight and understanding. Big ones. Paradigm shifts. -- Howard Bloom
Medicinal discovery, It moves in mighty leaps, It leapt straight past the common cold And gave it us for keeps. -- Pam Ayres
The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire. -- Sally Ride
Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those. -- Ian Mcewan
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
Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind. -- Gwen Harwood
They are denied access to the more advanced techniques of releasing the kundalini energy, which bring about quantum leaps in self-awareness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
They are denied access to the more advanced techniques of releasing the kundalini energy, which bring about quantum leaps in self-awareness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you. -- Bob Dylan
History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past. -- Julian Jaynes
Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer. -- Robert Graves
He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud. -- Howard Pyle
Remember that small steps can create giant leaps over time, so never think of any financial or spending matter as a small one. -- David Bach
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. -- John Updike
Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable. -- Starhawk
My generation came at a time when photography was advancing by leaps and bounds, creating the impulse to experiment and seek new approaches. -- Gjon Mili
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. -- Walter Scott
When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver. -- Sharon Olds
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
The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Leap through the Mystery of death as the circus-rider leaps through the papered hoop ... find Life ambling along beneath us on the Other Side. -- Sidney Lanier
India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century. -- Judit Polgar
... feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers against the sun... -- John Keats
You can't solve many of today's problems by straight linear thinking. It takes leaps of faith to sense the connections that are not necessarily obvious. -- Matina Horner
Looking into it a bit, Jamie found that the model used by Wall Street to price LEAPs, the Black-Scholes option pricing model, made some strange assumptions. -- Michael Lewis
Psychologists pay lip service to the scientific method, and use it whenever it is convenient; but when it isn't they make wild leaps of their uncontrolled fancy.... -- Anthony Standen
My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; -- William Wordsworth
Hi-def is merely the latest in a string of evolutional leaps that have transformed the way we sit slumped in front of a box wishing we were dead. -- Charlie Brooker
Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology. -- Avi Arad
But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best. -- Peter Watts
After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world. -- Maureen Forrester
Three things cannot be called back: the arrow when it speeds from the bow, the milk when the churn is upturned, the word when it leaps from the tongue. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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
I have never been able to wear a hat. My hair is peculiar in that it grows so fast that any hat I put on instantly leaps from my head. -- Nancy Spain
At every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable. None of those big leaps were made with us knowing what was going to happen. -- Brian Cox
The mystical kundalini is very different. It is a much more intense transformative energy which, when used, allows a person to make tremendous spiritual leaps in a short period of time. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Although knowledge of structure is helpful, real creativity comes from leaps of faith in which you jump to something illogical. But those leaps form the memorable moments in movies and plays. -- Francis Ford Coppola
I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence. -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Take a chance on faith. Not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire and Faith leaps over it. -- Jim Carrey
Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps and jumps to the tune of words. -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Almost everything we'll ever do in life that is really powerful, that really produces a result in our lives, that quantum-leaps us to a new level... requires us to do something uncomfortable. -- Jack Canfield
And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?" -- Carl Sagan
And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof? -- Carl Sagan
The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song. (Psalm 28:7 NIV) -- Anonymous
The heart sometimes leaps forward when the head tells us to be still. When this happens, patience is clearly called for as we seek to find a proper balance between impulse and discretion. -- Alexander Clark
My heart is broken. It really is. All the signs are there. I can't sleep- not even burgers. Every time the phone rings, my pulse leaps... But it's never for me, it's never him. -- Meg Cabot
The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where. -- Dorothy Thompson
He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits. -- Jack Kroll
It takes creativity at every stage to make the discontinuous leap from one level of knowledge to the next. These discontinuous leaps of understanding lead to insights that in turn lead to value creation. -- John Kao
The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps. -- Robert Genn
If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world? -- Franny Billingsley
Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant. -- Blaise Pascal

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