Brilliant Quotes
To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.
Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.
The beautiful simplicity of our faith is that it distills down to the exact same bottom line for both the brilliant theologian and the five-year-old child: love God and love each other - period.
A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.
I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.
Life, like any other exciting story, is bound to have painful and scary parts, boring and depressing parts, but it's a brilliant story, and it's up to us how it will turn out in the end.
It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.
Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all.
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.
When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.
A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.
The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of the darkest clouds.
Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.
No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.
You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.
There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.
Haters...are all failures. It's 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater.
We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers .
You'll always make mistakes and you'll miss the mark sometimes. That's inevitably going to happen, because the best people in the world make mistakes - even people who are brilliant.
To play for Barcelona, means to have an opportunity for a brilliant career. But to reach the top of it, you have to play for Real Madrid.
When a beginner wins he feels brilliant and invincible Then he takes wild risk and loses everything.
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
Success is hastened or delayed by one’s habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life.
Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind.
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
The most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character.
A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.
You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations.
I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity.
In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.
The scenes in the show were filmed with a crew of really excellent stunt jumpers, but we had the feel of the parachutes, so we could be more realistic in the roles.
'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second.
Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."
