Quotes About Brilliance

What I am looking for is a masterpiece. I don't want to waste my time. I am tired of experiments.

You can try to steal the thunder all you want, it just reminds people I'm the lightning. You rumble in the distance. I light up the sky.

Obviously if you're playing some of the smartest men in the world, you want to sound really smart.

There are planes that are not light. There are planes that are shadowy. But that is not our interest in meditation. We want brightness, ecstasy, brilliance beyond comprehension.

if his efforts are mediocre, we're likely to let him live. If he shows us brilliance, we'll kill him.

Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.

My dear poetry, There's a likenessbetween your eyes and the stars–the same charming brilliance, my eyes have ever laid upon.

I met her eyes, and for the first time I perceived that there was something broken behind them, like a tiny crack in a diamond that becomes visible only when viewed through a magnifying lens; normally it is hidden by the brilliance of the stone.

I knew that she was so clever that it was unnecessary for her to be beautiful.

And it most certainly doesn't help that we are trying to navigate this civilizational crisis at a moment when some of the most brilliant minds of our time are devoting vast energies to figuring out ever-more-ingenious tools to keep us running around in digital circles in search of the next dopamine hit.

It is one of the strangest anomalies of life that the absence of fear, and not formal education or brilliance of mind, is the major cause of individual success.

Insincere or false thinking is never great, however logical and brilliant it may be.

He] was a brilliant man. People tend to become wary of individuals like him because their brilliance reminds them of their own mediocrity. Envy is a blind man who wants to pull out your eyes.

People tend to become wary of individuals like him because their brilliance reminds them of their own mediocrity. Envy is a blind man who wants to pull out your eyes.

Virtuosity in Talmud was the achievement most sought after by every student of a yeshiva, for it was the automatic guarantee of a reputation for brilliance.

You want to know why Barbra Streisand is so difficult? Because she's brilliant. She's a brilliant entertainer, she's a brilliant lady, and she's a wonderful human being, and the community doesn't like it.

Only Freddie Mercury could do Freddie Mercury. He was absolutely brilliant - I loved him to pieces, and I had a great deal of respect for him.

'Looper' was so brilliant, and it took me forever to finally see it, but the way that movie ends and the message behind that is so selfless.

Messi is 'The Matrix' - that image when everything slows down, and he can do what he wants.

Messi is just extraordinary.

Michael Hogan is an absolutely brilliant actor, so anytime I get to work with someone of that caliber, I get excited.

Everything that Michael Fassbender touches is elevated.

'Tanu Weds Manu's brilliance lies in the fact that it makes the middle class want to be aspirational.

Now, Joyce being Joyce, he has about five different purposes, one not being enough for genius.