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Quotes About Brilliance

THE SUN AND THE MOON "Your ways R similar 2 the rays of the sun Warm 2 many but 2 strong 4 some The more u R needed the brighter u shine Watched 4 2 long and your brilliance will blind The eyes of mortal men who threaten u with doom They regret 2 c u set but it is time 4 the moon.
~ Tupac Shakur
Intelligence is the only unlimited natural resource
~ Unknown
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.
~ Victor Hugo
It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.
~ Thomas Moore
Glamour is a shooting star, it catches your eye, but fades away, beauty is the sun always brilliant day after day.
~ Michael Dolan
You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.
~ Sam Walton
If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing.
~ Mark Cuban
They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.
~ Ani DiFranco
Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual; they fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.
~ Peter F. Drucker
Unfortunately, brilliance in science is no guarantee of a sound grasp of ethics.
~ Peter Singer
I would later discover it was a bad idea to gather more than two of these people in an enclosed area for any length of time. The stage was not only a physical place but also a state of mind, and the word audience was defined as anyone forced to suffer your company. We young actors were a string of lightbulbs left burning 24 hours a day, exhausting ourselves and others with our self-proclaimed brilliance.
~ David Sedaris
Madness is madness and genius is genius, and any similarity is purely coincidental. Comparing the two is like comparing normal cellular growth to cancer.
~ David Sosnowski
para la gente vulgar la genialidad se parece a la locura.
~ Honore de Balzac
Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?
~ Howard Stern
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success
~ Ian Fleming
like we're hanging on your every brilliant deduction.
~ Ian Rankin
The brightest of minds do not fear other bright minds.
~ Unknown
You must first believe your brilliance before you become brilliant.
~ Unknown
Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?
~ Connie Willis
Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochure from brilliance, memo from memoir, a ship's log from The Old Man and the Sea .…The writer leaves us with a sense that we are listening to a skilled raconteur rather than passing our eyes over ink on paper.
~ Constance Hale
Brilliant students make good aides.
~ Cynthia Ozick
You have to do a version of somebody that's the essence of Paterno. I think that's what Al is so great at. You have to create a man, a life, and the emotions that go with it. He's truly brilliant.
~ Barry Levinson
There is no method but to be very intelligent.
~ T. S. Eliot
I don't spend a lot of time watching my performances after the fact. I suck at playing video games, but I'm a fan of the creativity, the brilliance, and the possibility of the industry.
~ Jennifer Hale