Quotes About Brilliance

When mediocrity is common, create masterwork.

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.

once can easily see in an object at once a perfection and an absence of origin, a closure and a brilliance, a transformation of life into matter (matter is much more magical than life), and in a word a silence which belongs to the realm of fairy-tales.

Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance at the moment when it attempts to die. — Roland Barthes, Writing Degree Zero . (Hill and Wang; Reissue edition April 1, 1977) Originally published 1953

Nietzsche is never boring. He is always interesting, exciting, thrilling, glittering, breathtaking. He possesses a kind of brilliance and tempo which I believe was unknown in former times.

You're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret: All the best people are.

Am I mad?" "I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers! But I'll tell you a secret… all of the best people are!

I'm afraid so.Your totally bonkers.But I tellyou a secret.All the best people are.

Creo que si, que has perdido la cabez, estás completamente loco. Pero te diré un secreto: las mejores personas lo están. (Sombrerero).

France] may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.

An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.

Ró?nica pomiÄ™dzy gÅ'upotÄ… a geniuszem jest taka, ?e geniusz ma granice.

Lo que había dado a Helmholtz la desagradable conciencia de ser él mismo y estar totalmente solo, era un exceso de inteligencia.

64. I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.

We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it.

It was so easy to get mired down in the day-to-day struggles of life, and lose sight of the wonders of existence. How often did most people take just a few minutes to go outside at night and gaze skyward, to marvel at the tiny piece of the cosmos viewable from Earth? To contemplate the infinity of the universe and the complexity and brilliance of Nature in all its endless forms?

They weren't the smartest or best trained that humanity had to offer, and they didn't have the best judgment. The truly brilliant, truly gifted, wanted little to do with politics.

Bobbie Fischer was considered the greatest chess player who ever lived, and he ended up losing complete touch with reality. John Nash, a brilliant mathematician who developed game theory, was debilitated by paranoid schizophrenia. There are

After she had come out of her downward spiral, she had studied up on this condition, and was amazed by what she found. Fully one percent of the population fell into this category, and many were brilliant and high functioning, becoming extraordinarily successful scientists, politicians, and CEOs, mostly because they were utterly ruthless and predatory, had no conscience, and didn't feel guilt or shame.

Einstein: His Life and Universe,