Quotes About Brilliance

We're incandescent and it doesn't seem fair." "Fair?" "I mean too much comes to some of us, not enought to all the rest of us. So few of us to do the thinking. I mean so few of us have to be so incandescent.

The brightest stars burn out the fastest

We die. Think of us like shooting stars, brief but bright.

like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy -- at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Swagga so bright, I dont even need light.

Mark Conseulos is so amazing.

She shines and nobody knows what to do with her.

Shine like stars

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.

The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the book of Esther. I'll happily join that list.

She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.

To her surprise, Madeleine found herself contemplating this proposal. Why not tell her parents everything, curl up in the backseat of the car, and let them take her home? She could move into her old bedroom, with the sleigh bed and the Madeline wallpaper. She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.

Dude, you need to appreciate how goddamn gifted you are. You're so smart that I don't understand what you're talking about half the time, and we all know how brilliant I am." Finn winked. "Matty, you're amazing.

A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they're doing work that most any trained person could do.

Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly.

A Star is always a star no matter what stage they are on or at

I am often stunned and charmed by the simple brilliance of what children say. But you have to be willing to listen.

One very common thing is that often very brilliant children stop working because they're praised so often that it's what they want to live as - brilliant - not as someone who ever makes mistakes. It really stunts their motivation.

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

Sparkle never goes out of style.

Dad was pretty solid. He had great grooves and there was occasional moments of sheer brilliance with fills and things, but in general, the sheer brilliance is the simplicity, how much groove, how much feel he had, all the subtleties that we miss.