Definition of Leaning

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Definition of Leaning
	Leaning of Lean The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism. Related Definitions: Act, As, Calvinism, Inclining, Lean, Leaning, Of, Or, State, Tendency, The, Towards

Leaning Quotations

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen Covey

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
Winston Churchill

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
James Madison

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
Rita Rudner

If you are not leaning, no one will ever let you down.
Robert Anthony

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
Paul Cezanne

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
Orison Swett Marden

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.
Henri Bergson

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.
Dick Schaap

I think that most artists are leaning towards fragile idiots.
Josh Silver

Leaning Translations

leaning in French is penchant, adossant
leaning in German is lehnend
leaning in Swedish is lutande

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