Stationary Jump

Famous quotes containing the words stationary and/or jump:

“It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages our interest. Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes, the actors, and the students.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)