Quotes About Brilliance

True genius can get an idea across even to an inferior mind.

I keep things moving along with a seriously loving, caring, and brilliant man, a fierce group of friends - and really strong coffee.

To this day, I can't understand why the closest man to Jimmy Carter, the key staff guy at the White House, didn't even join us at the White House breakfast meetings where we discussed upcoming legislation with the president. This was unprecedented. People used to say that Jordan was the most brilliant guy around, but you couldn't prove it by me.

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'

I loved 'Matilda.' The kids are so brilliant and uninhibited. They were inspiring. Seeing them onstage, just going wild, reminded me of when I was that age. I was excited for them and completely taken by their innocence and hard work.

Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.

The tenor voice should be like sunshine.

I respond well to terribly beautiful, terribly brilliant Russian women.

Terry Gilliam is one of the greatest brains I ever met.

Hats off, gentlemen—a genius!

John Churchill, soon Duke of Marlborough, was a rare phenomenon: a brilliant English general. He

Look at her. The sun soaks right int her and shines back out of her. She's magnificent.

It's not easy, though, being brilliant. Nor being married to one.

I'm not getting it all sorted, she worried. I'm not getting it right. You are brilliant, the Voice reassured her. It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brilliant, nonetheless. How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness. Carry on imperfectly, shining Ista.

It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brilliant, nonetheless. How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness. Carry on imperfectly, shining Ista.

Admiral Naismith, said Quinn stiffly, is not a dwarf. He's nearly five feet tall. And I am not 'in love' with him, you low-minded twit; I merely admire his brilliance. Professionally.

Conceit spoils the finest genius.

Young people seldom turn out as one predicts, so it is of little use to expect anything,' said Mrs. Meg with a sigh. 'If our children are good and useful men and women, we should be satisfied; yet it's very natural to wish them to be brilliant and successful.

Shy and bookish, she tended, like Rockefeller, to arrive at brilliant solutions by slow persistence.

The most cognitively brilliant people usually have had to sacrifice their emotional selves.

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the children of the hour of darkness were born, I'm afraid, in the midst of the age of darkness; so that although we found it easy to be brilliant, we were always confused about being good.

Sports taught me that I can make a mistake one minute, let it go, and be brilliant the next.