Quotes About Brilliance

genius is independent of situation

We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

To shine is better than to reflect.

Feynman—mystifyingly brilliant at calculating, strangely ignorant of the literature, passionate about physics, reckless about proof—had for once overestimated his ability to charm and persuade these great physicists.

What's wrong with being out there, out there like a star shining in the night when that's the only way the star can be seen? You never tell a star: Hey Tone it down.

Let's just say that if these scientist had been using their brilliance for good instead of evil, cars would run off water vapor and leave fresh compost behind them; no one would be hungry; no one would be ill; all buildings would be earthquake-, bomb-, and flood-proof; and the world's entire economy would have collapsed and been replaced by one based on the value of chocolate.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court.

Some men act upon women like champagne; when they appear the women are sparkling and full of brilliance; when they leave the fair ones grow flat, stale, and most unprofitable companions.

A single star shines brighter than a thousand moons.

Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius.

Beauty is light set free.

A star earns the right to shine the day it is born.

A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.

Run to brilliance. Sprint to excellence. Soar to transcendence.

Confuse them with your intelligence, baffle them with your excellence, bewilder them with your brilliance, and perplex them with your transcendence.

A diamond is pressure's masterpiece.

Stars shine on us, but talent shines in us.

Shine your light so bright, and no one will need a telescope to see you.

You mustn't be afraid to sparkle a little brighter darling .

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

I have the stardom glow.

Making something good and saying something brilliant are not two things. When you make your own statement, there is a higher energy level, and you do better painting.