#leap

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. ↗

— Henry Miller

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The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#around #because #been #difficult #done

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum. ↗

— Holly Near

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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

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The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? ↗

— Dennis Potter

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A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#bigger #bold #box #cave #computer

The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds. ↗

— Ace Frehley

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When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world. ↗

— Richard Gere

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Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

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