Jeffrey Leonard quote: "We all start off taking the baby steps known as trial and error. But, as you grow and believe, one day you may take that giant leap into the universe known as hope and success."

Words and feelings are two of many possible variables in life leading to the answer to the problem k...
JEFFREY LEONARD

Tomorrow is not always promised, so be happy for what this very moment will bring.
JEFFREY LEONARD

God has not only given us strength and wisdom, but also the thought of perseverance and determinatio...
JEFFREY LEONARD

Strength is not described by muscle or weight, it is described by fear, emotions, wisdom and ability...
JEFFREY LEONARD

Every trip down the highway of success may lead to a crack in the road, but with hard work, aspirati...
JEFFREY LEONARD

Living life to the fullest is not only made with time, but with appreciation and the grace of good p...
JEFFREY LEONARD

The embers of sorrow will smolder quickly after dealing with the raging fire known as loss.
JEFFREY LEONARD

Whether shooting for the stars or branching for the next big tree, listen to your heart and go along...
JEFFREY LEONARD

Ice cold failure is the first step toward the heated moments known as success.
JEFFREY LEONARD

Dignity, strength, power and courage are all tools that God gave us to make us stronger in the futur...
JEFFREY LEONARD

Love and strength, like a fireman and his axe are two tools to a caring and valuable friendship.
JEFFREY LEONARD

Teamwork is 1 percent intensity and 99 percent heart.
JEFFREY LEONARD

Laughter is one of the best medicines that may help us get by in life one day at a time.
JEFFREY LEONARD

Words and actions do not make you a hero. Beliefs and values are what make you.
JEFFREY LEONARD

The true meaning of the phrase thank you doesn't come from the brain, it comes from the heart.
JEFFREY LEONARD

Just because today is a rough takeoff, tomorrow will more than likely guarantee to be a smooth landi...
JEFFREY LEONARD

Pictures that are known as reality are often tougher to accept than the fine sketches we call dreams...
JEFFREY LEONARD

The true definition of a hero is not shown by his personality, but his stance under pressure, his wo...
JEFFREY LEONARD

Honesty and trust, like a true friend can both be lost if you don't watch your step.
JEFFREY LEONARD

For a loss of a friend does not make oneself full of sorrow, but it brings you all closer together a...
JEFFREY LEONARD

Cracks in the road may not be easy to come by, but if you put your mind to it, the cement known as s...
JEFFREY LEONARD

The power of friendships will not only make yourself stronger, but wiser as well.
JEFFREY LEONARD

The vision you call a dream is often tougher to accept than facing the tough world known as reality.
JEFFREY LEONARD

Bravery is not defined by a true emotion, but rather being able to go out there and overcome obstacl...
JEFFREY LEONARD

One tumble from the rock of failure and trial is the first step to climbing the canyon known as succ...
JEFFREY LEONARD

You are your own believer in yourself only if you dream big and reach for stronger heights.
JEFFREY LEONARD

I like being the underdog so they don't expect what's going to happen. It pushes me to work ...
KAWHI LEONARD

There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or o...
ELMORE LEONARD

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
LEONARD COHEN

At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challeng...
LEONARD COHEN

This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have t...
LEONARD COHEN

If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
LEONARD COHEN

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.
LEONARD COHEN

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass d...
LEONARD COHEN

My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca.
LEONARD COHEN

Success is survival.
LEONARD COHEN

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. A...
LEONARD COHEN

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're p...
LEONARD COHEN

When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That'...
LEONARD COHEN

There were times that I thought I was good looking.
LEONARD COHEN

I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd...
LEONARD COHEN

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to ...
LEONARD COHEN

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
LEONARD COHEN

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN

The convergence of the Rhone and Saone. Paul Bocuse. The birthplace of cinema. Chateauneuf-du-Pape j...
LEONARD SLATKIN

I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections.
LEONARD LAUDER

That which is alike will be called same. That which is not same is different.
LEONARD BLOOMFIELD

Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won...
LYDIA LEONARD

Is the universe 'elegant,' as Brian Greene tells us? Not as far as I can tell, not the usual...
LEONARD SUSSKIND

During one of my early seminars, there were a bunch of seminar junkies there.
LEONARD ORR

We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having t...
LEONARD COHEN

Obviously, I like guys that can defend other positions. Draymond Green is doing a great job with Gol...
KAWHI LEONARD

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everythi...
LEONARD COHEN

The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I'...
LEONARD NIMOY

Non-human primates spend hours a day grooming each other. And with humans, touching is also importan...
LEONARD MLODINOW

My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, w...
LEONARD NIMOY

When judging a product, we rarely have exhaustive scientific data to go by. As a result, if we are t...
LEONARD MLODINOW

If you kneel before God, you will stand before men.
LEONARD RAVENHILL

It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple
LEONARD COHEN

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in ever...
LEONARD COHEN

There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language h...
LEONARD COHEN

I know that there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do...
LEONARD COHEN

Psychopaths... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit. That'...
ELMORE LEONARD

Live Long and Prosper
LEONARD NIMOY

If I meet God, I hope she's female. I'm touched by the power of women. I'm married to a feminist. An...
LEONARD NIMOY

I'm only human, and I have no doubt Spock will outlive me by many years. I can only hope that, once ...
LEONARD NIMOY

I AM CONVINCED

I am convinced
That if all mankind
Could only gather together LEONARD NIMOY

The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
LEONARD NIMOY

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
LEONARD NIMOY

It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.
ELMORE LEONARD

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all ...
ELMORE LEONARD

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and comm...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.
GEORGE LEONARD

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person ...
LEONARD COHEN

Men give advice; God gives guidance.
LEONARD RAVENHILL

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The be...
GEORGE LEONARD

Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.
LEONARD BRANDWEIN

Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.
GEORGE LEONARD

â€œThe church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that...
LEONARD RAVENHILL

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.
LEONARD ORR

While we often huddle in groups of like-minded people, those with faith blaze a trail that threatens...
LEONARD RAVENHILL

The growth of affluence, the growth of education, has led to a shortage of morons.
LEONARD NEAL

The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, ...
GEORGE LEONARD

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN

History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a pa...
GEORGE LEONARD

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twen...
STEW LEONARD

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does ...
LEONARD COHEN

I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jac...
LEONARD COHEN

The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...
LEONARD COHEN

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
LEONARD COHEN

The ages of seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled th...
LEONARD COHEN

He lay beside her, an insomniac with visions of vastness. He thought of desert stretches so huge no ...
LEONARD COHEN

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
GLORIA LEONARD

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep ...
LEONARD COHEN

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must ...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are ...
LEONARD COHEN

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense t...
LEONARD COHEN

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
LEONARD COHEN

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, a...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the co...
LEONARD COHEN

When the thunder rumbles,
Now the age of gold is dead.
When the dreams we've clung to
Tryin...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

A customer who complains is my best friend.
STEW LEONARD

Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule n...
STEVE LEONARD

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense ...
LEONARD COHEN

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
GLORIA LEONARD

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Clarity affords focus.
THOMAS LEONARD

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship ...
LEONARD COHEN

Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we ha...
LEONARD MLODINOW

My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregati...
LEONARD NIMOY

A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen ho...
LEONARD SUSSKIND

It was a great feeling to be named an All-Star starter, to know that my hard work is paying off and ...
KAWHI LEONARD

Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands ou...
LEONARD COHEN

Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which show...
LEONARD WOODCOCK

If tomorrow all of America were to become paternalistic, we would beat the Japanese every day of the...
LEONARD LAUDER

I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me...
LEONARD COHEN

It seems hopelessly improbable that any particular rules accidentally led to the miracle of intellig...
LEONARD SUSSKIND

'Subliminal' is about how we misinterpret our behavior because we're unaware of what our...
LEONARD MLODINOW

Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very impo...
LEONARD NIMOY

Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land busines...
LEONARD BOSWELL

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly des...
LEONARD COHEN

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when t...
LEONARD COHEN

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHEN

I like life on the road. It's a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you're ...
LEONARD COHEN

Music is the emotional life of most people.
LEONARD COHEN

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
JOHN LEONARD

As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepa...
LEONARD BOSWELL

This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments ...
LEONARD COHEN

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
LEONARD COHEN

The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and ...
LEONARD BOSWELL

Evolution is among the most well-established theories in the scientific community. To doubt it sound...
LEONARD MLODINOW

I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot...
LEONARD COHEN

I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall w...
LEONARD NIMOY

I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.
LEONARD SLATKIN

Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, gr...
LEONARD SUSSKIND

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chantin...
LEONARD COHEN

Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin m...
LEONARD MALTIN

The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control ...
LEONARD BOSWELL

Writing on the beach is not what it's cracked up to be. The sand blows, and you perspire, and th...
ELMORE LEONARD

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the ex...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my e...
LEONARD COHEN

The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers...
ELMORE LEONARD

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
LEONARD MALTIN

On the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue sits the most famous concert hall in the world. No less a figur...
LEONARD SLATKIN

You can't serve up hearts like cherries jubilee.
LEONARD BAILEY

Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added...
LEONARD NIMOY

There were a lot of terms you had to learn, as opposed to the shylock business where all you had to ...
ELMORE LEONARD

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chor...
LEONARD COHEN

We're the underdogs and that's a good position to be in.
AMY LEONARD

They had a lot of confidence coming in and they came in on a streak. A lot of people didn't give us ...
AMY LEONARD

We couldn't really stop Clemens. Jessica was tough and you had two good teams playing and one had to...
AMY LEONARD

She spent a lot of her own time working individually on her skills, her footwork, getting to the bas...
AMY LEONARD

We stepped it up quite a bit in the third.
AMY LEONARD

In the first half we shot OK, but we missed some easy put-backs and stuff like that. We came out in ...
AMY LEONARD

I'm not going to assume anything over anybody. It's girls basketball, on any given day it can go any...
AMY LEONARD

The dark energy is not exactly zero, but the first 122 decimal points are zero. That's crazy. Th...
LEONARD SUSSKIND

I remember being a teenager and watching 40-year-old Michael Jordan compete in his final All-Star ga...
KAWHI LEONARD

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.
LEONARD NIMOY

More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resou...
LEONARD BAILEY

The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made t...
LEONARD BOSWELL

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing futur...
LEONARD SLATKIN

I'll never try to win an award. I'm out there just playing for my team.
KAWHI LEONARD

That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unk...
LEONARD NIMOY

I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they hav...
LEONARD NIMOY

What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was ...
LEONARD PELTIER

Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the...
LEONARD WOODCOCK

In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre m...
JOSHUA LEONARD

Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of ou...
LEONARD MLODINOW

The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is t...
LEONARD SLATKIN

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. ...
LEONARD COHEN

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty dee...
LEONARD NIMOY

Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.
LEONARD MALTIN

I want the kids to know that it's not a myth that somebody from their city plays and wins in the...
KAWHI LEONARD

Never open a book with weather. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ...
ELMORE LEONARD

The bailout of Fannie Mae is completely off the books. It's going to cost us hundreds of billion...
LEONARD LANCE

I can make a couple of good sandwiches: tuna salad and chopped egg salad. And Greek bean soup. I was...
LEONARD COHEN

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
LEONARD WOOLF

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of...
JOHN LEONARD

The bad guys are the fun guys. The only people I have trouble with are the so-called normal types. T...
ELMORE LEONARD

I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations a...
LEONARD ORR

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.
HUGH LEONARD

I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better lookin...
HUGH LEONARD

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.
LEONARD PELTIER

I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized ...
LEONARD LAUDER

I also do my own processing, so it means a big commitment in lab time.
LEONARD NIMOY

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly t...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, a...
LEONARD SUSSKIND

I only wish I could have played in the big leagues when I was young enough to show what I could do. ...
BUCK LEONARD

A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.
LEONARD RAVENHILL

I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us: you don't write the songs anyhow. So if y...
LEONARD COHEN

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish...
LEONARD COHEN

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, b...
LEONARD COHEN

I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism.
LEONARD LAUDER

For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urg...
LEONARD BOSWELL

We all start off taking the baby steps known as trial and error. But, as you grow and believe, one day you may take that giant leap into the universe known as hope and success.

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We all start off taking the baby steps known as trial and error. But, as you grow and believe, one day you may take that giant leap into the universe known as hope and success.

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