Michelle Dockery

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.

English Actress

Liya Kebede

If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.

Ethiopian Model

Sheila Hancock

Inventing characters is extraordinary: proper authors say so often that characters 'just appear' and that does happen. These people keep leaping out and saying, why don't you write about me?

Rachel Kushner

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

American Writer

Romeo Dallaire

Those who are mastering more and more the communications revolution, those who realize that there are no borders in the world, are the ones who are going to leap ahead.

Canadian Politician

Mark Haddon

If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.

English Novelist

Sutton Foster

You can't be afraid. You have to be open. I feel like I've always been a leaper, and I've always leapt into things without thinking.

American Actress

Jok Church

I really enjoy when I'm asked questions that leap from the physical world and the material world into our hearts.

American Cartoonist

William Cobbett

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

English Politician

D. H. Lawrence

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

English Writer

Used to describe a physical jump with energy or effort.

Physical Action

Implies a greater distance or height in the action than 'jump'.

Significant Distance

Measurement

Can also mean a big step in progress or change.

Figurative Use

To 'leap at' suggests eagerly taking an opportunity without hesitation.

Grasp Opportunity

Indicates a rapid and often surprising change in numbers or level.

Quick Increase

Suggests an abrupt transformation or development.

Sudden Change

Conveys a sense of urgent or vigorous action.

Energetic Movement

A 'leap of faith' means trusting in something without complete evidence or security.

Decisive Risk

A 'quantum leap' signifies a major breakthrough or dramatic progress.

Substantial Advance

 there's no creativity boost. It's only when you're told that you're going to be working on this problem, and then you start procrastinating, but the task is still active in the back of your mind, that you start to incubate. Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.

The surprising habits of...

 pulled himself up and scurried upwards. He was free climbing without ropes or a harness, one misstep meant death. But up he went, and when he reached the peak, he swayed and leapt across the gap of space onto a branch of the target tree and into a world never seen before. His buddy Marwood followed him up,

What's hidden among the...

 with geolocation so accurate that you could pinpoint the wrinkles in the palm of your hand. But you and I and other innovators, we can see the potential in this next leap in accuracy. Imagine, for example, an augmented reality app that overlays a virtual world to millimeter-level precision

Todd Humphreys: How to...

 including advanced artificial intelligence, miniaturization, and better propulsion systems. If we wanted to use them to spread actual humans throughout the galaxy, we would need yet another technological leap - the ability to artificially grow biological organisms and bodies

Could human civilization...

 that is human interstellar travel is really necessary in order for us to build a better world today and the reason it's necessary is because it fosters radical leaps radical leaps in innovation in technology and our knowledge and understanding of the

Want interstellar...

 So this is what I call Lovelace's Leap. When you say she's a programmer, she did do some, but the real thing is to have said the future is going to be much, much more than this. Now, a hundred years later, this guy comes along,

John Graham-Cumming: The...

 The results were species capable of much more than when they were separate organisms, and this was an evolutionary leap that lead to the microorganisms, plants, and animals we observe on the planet today.

How we think complex...

 I thought I slept through a national tragedy. It was the craziest thing, guys, but when it came to my influence and my exposure, I literally took a quantum leap. So I made more videos

A Black man goes...

 encouraged by a gentle nudge he leaps into the unknown dad follows right behind him

A Collection Of Spring...

 why would these hatchlings take such a leap help if they stay in the tree they