Quotes About Brilliance

The forehead of every work must shine from afar.

A good title is a work of a genius!

There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's.

Every time a confident, successful woman like Marissa Meyer distances herself from feminism, I think of Athena. Athena women, with all their brilliance and strategy, are the ones smashing up through layers of glass. They tend to identify with men, keeping femininity at a distance.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

As a person of color, as a woman, as a body moving through this particular space in time, I realize the streets of New York tell the story of resistance, an African-American history of brilliance and beauty that, even in its most brutal moments, did not - could not - kill our resilient and powerful spirit.

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

Approaching my second novel was, admittedly, a bit of a struggle. But having an amazing team at Atheneum Books, especially my very patient, brilliant editor Namrata Tripathi, took a stressful situation and turned it into a really great learning experience for me.

I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.

Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business.

I know the rewards of focusing on innovation and outcomes as opposed to hours. I've been fortunate to work with brilliant entrepreneurs who didn't have years of experience, and yet they changed the world.

Alan Turing, to me, always felt like an outsider's outsider.

France's brilliant general Maurice de Saxe displayed audacious courage at twelve and commanded a regiment by seventeen

Stars, hard bits of diamond light.

So, messrs Johnson and Cummings had a strategy for victory, and we had one for defeat. And I noted the cockiness of the Johnson visit to Sedgefield to rub salt in the wound! But I would like to see their strategic brilliance measured against a team other than one whose striker was directionally oblivious, its midfield comatose, the defence absent in the stand chatting to a small portion of the fans and its goalkeeper behind the net retweeting a clip of his one save in a 9-0 thrashing.

Niceness is an overrated quality. Being nice is how a man pays his way into a party if he hasn't the guts to be tough or the class to be brilliant.

How did you know they were there?" Glory asked. "Oh wait, I forgot, NightWings are all-knowing, all-seeing and all-brilliant, right?" "Don't forget al-wonderful and all-brilliant.

than Anemone's sparkle extravaganza.

You're brilliant," said Snowflake.

Anemone's sparkle extravaganza.

There are two ways to shine: to reflect light or produce it.

There are two ways to shine: to reflect light or produce it.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.