Quotes About Brilliance

When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

See the stars at night. They seem so small to your eyes, but their light shines for millions of miles. Be like those stars— small in your own eyes, yet radiant to all.

At the Beaux-Arts he was that most admired of students, "a second-place man." First place in academic competitions belonged to the highly capable and absolutely conventional; the truly brilliant, whose innovative work made the masters at the Ecole uneasy, learned to be content with second.

En ocasiones un idiota puede decir algo genial y un genio decir una idiotez.

Genius has its limitations. Insanity, not so much.

However, it is possible to be a genius and still be rather stupid,

Sorry I'm so brilliant," Michael said. " 'Tis a burden I must bear.

No one is bigger than the team and individual brilliance does not automatically lead to outstanding results. One selfish mindset will infect a collective culture.

If wealth and might are to be performed, great wealth and great might must be performed brilliantly.

We see nature as genius when we see as genius.

And here he was, the great one himself, scorching us all with his rays of glory.

She was surprised, in short, that athletes were not intellectual, for somewhere within her was still a notion that famous people must necessarily be brilliant in every way.

And at thirty-eight a brilliant exponent of arms and a knight of the great fighting and religious Order of St John, the Chevalier de Villegagnon had absolutely no use for common sense himself, but respected it in the laity.

You're so damned brilliant, said Phelim. You know everything. It's hard-set you'd be to give yourself a dull Saturday afternoon. We're all puppets—not the old Queens only, but the rest of us, man, woman and child, looking the fools of the world. [...] You have them there, on their strings, all curled tight to your littlest finger; and you little heeding as you swing them what soul you may bruise.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.

Es absolutamente demencial... una completa idiotez. Pero lo haremos porque es una estupidez brillante.

Totally mad," he said, "utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.

She could not fail to observe that a life of academic distinction was singularly ill rewarded. She had no desire whatever to teach and she took pleasure in contacts with minds much less brilliant than her own. In short, she had a taste for people, all sorts of people—and not the same people the whole time.

I was glad I had been brilliant, but I did not want to think of anything complex. I wanted to go to sleep.

There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that is Madonna.

Jerry Orbach is just phenomenal. He is genius, so present.

You can't write a character more brilliant than yourself. It's just not physically possible.