Quotes About The Great Leap Forward

#1. From 1945 to 1991, China was engaged in a series of wars that nearly broke them. This generation has been through hell: the Great Leap Forward, hunger, starvation, near collision with the Russians - the Cultural Revolution gone mad. I have no doubt that this generation wants a peaceful rise.

Lee Kuan Yew

#2. The revolution is just a T-shirt away.

- Waiting for the Great Leap Forward

Billy Bragg

#3. It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

Louis Sachar

#4. While the ACA's insurance expansions and reforms represent a great leap forward for the U.S., it is also true that when fully implemented by 2018, the U.S. will still have the most inefficient, wasteful, and unfair health insurance system of any advanced nation, even with the ACA reforms.

John E. McDonough

#5. I always respect right off the bat because we are human, but then over time you learn who the person truly is, just like they learn about you. Hope it works out really well, and you hope that builds a stronger connection over time. You can't be friends with everybody.

Billie Jean King

#6. his career had just taken a great leap forward, he was going to pee in his chief's toilet.

Jose Saramago

#7. A determined man, a man who believes himself grossly abused, does not listen to reason

Lucinda Brant

#8. We at Google have made tremendous advances in understanding language. Our knowledge graph has been fundamental to that. The new algorithm that we launched today called Hummingbird has been a great leap forward.

Amit Singhal

#9. Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non.

Louis MacNeice

#10. Great Leadership sometimes requires taking a step backward in order to take a leap forward.

Todd Stocker

#11. All my life I thought love was supposed to be this amazing, wonderful feeling. I thought it was supposed to heal all wounds and conquer all. No one ever told me that it can leave a giant hole in your heart. No one ever mentioned that it could steal all the life away from you.

Jen Naumann

#12. Every great move forward in your life begins with a leap of faith, a step into the unknown.

Brian Tracy

#13. You can't think about basketball or you ruin your game. It is an instinctive game.

Dolph Schayes

#14. A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.

Harvey MacKay

#15. In the Communist era, excrement took on political importance, because Party policy decided excrement was essential for the Great Agricultural Leap Forward.

Rose George