Quotes about Brilliance

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull. Votes: 4

One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors. Votes: 4

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. Votes: 4

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. Votes: 4

I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance. Votes: 4

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. Votes: 4

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine. Votes: 4

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature! Votes: 4

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. Votes: 4

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. Votes: 4

I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there. Votes: 4

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. Votes: 4

Simplicity is the key to brilliance. Votes: 3

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved. Votes: 3

Brilliance is impossible without a touch of insanity. Votes: 3

Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion. Votes: 3

I wasn't sure how I'd feel about breastfeeding, but quickly realized its brilliance. Votes: 3

Never underestimate someone with Autism, because there could be Brilliance struggling to get out. Votes: 3

The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance Votes: 3

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. Votes: 3

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. Votes: 3

Have confidence. Like the first spark of morning light against the entire night sky recognize the Power and Brilliance within you. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart. Votes: 3

Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance. Votes: 3

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different. Votes: 1

Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust. Votes: 1

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered. Votes: 1

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant. Votes: 1

The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

When you bring the scale and precision of data-driven platforms to the brilliance of great media executions, magic will happen. Delivering on that vision for the Independent Web is the mission of Federated Media Publishing. Votes: 1

When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance... and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while. Votes: 1

Most people are fascinated to see someone play an instrument in an inspired way. We are moved by witnessing musical brilliance, and it was this notion that led me to purchase the GuitarTV domain 10 years ago. Votes: 1

My first book was the most successful debut novel in the U.K. ever and every one of my books has reached number one in the U.K. Clearly the British know brilliance when they see it. Votes: 1

If I'm working as an engineer for another band, the responsibility for brilliance pretty much rests on their shoulders. I think I'm pretty good, but I'm not good enough to turn a trout into a sausage, or the other way around. Votes: 1

For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless. Votes: 1

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Experience trumps brilliance. Votes: 0

Always remember your brilliance. Votes: 0

Surround yourself with brilliance. Votes: 0

Beauty is the brilliance of truth. Votes: 0

McAvoy's bonkers brilliance will blow you away. Votes: 0

Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness. Votes: 0

Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness. Votes: 0

Turmoil in life morphs into brilliance in writing Votes: 0

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry. Votes: 0

Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane... Votes: 0

Music pulls words from the heart and inspires brilliance. Votes: 0

Education is the Jewel casting brilliance into the future Votes: 0

Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness... Votes: 0

In a world of more brilliance words don't mean anything. Votes: 0

Perform with elan, brilliance and dash - at concert pitch. Votes: 0

Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance. Votes: 0

Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways. Votes: 0

A man doesn't need brilliance or genius, all he needs is energy. Votes: 0

A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents. Votes: 0

We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine. Votes: 0

The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul. Votes: 0

The brilliance of contemplated beauty opens the spirit to the mystery of God. Votes: 0

Helping people develop their own brilliance is much more effective than giving them yours Votes: 0

The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people. Votes: 0

Unconscious people are spiritually stunted, effectively encasing their unique brilliance in a psychological tumor. Votes: 0

I stared up at the Erlking, and with my typical pithy brilliance said, "Uh-oh. Votes: 0

For every studen with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble. Votes: 0

For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality. Votes: 0

There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact. Votes: 0

If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning? Votes: 0

Evil may mar the divine image and cloud its brilliance, but it cannot destroy it. Votes: 0

A moment of brilliance is not good enough to pay for your mistakes, it's taking responsibility Votes: 0

Your brilliance comes from your spirit. To deny it is arrogance. To accept it is humility. Votes: 0

I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. Votes: 0

Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business. Votes: 0

A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there Votes: 0

[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time. Votes: 0

The brilliance of Adam Scott is that he is so damn funny in a straight man role. Votes: 0

Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you. Votes: 0

European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance. Votes: 0

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice. Votes: 0

The technical brilliance of Lang Lang and the musical genius to create a masterpiece on the spot. Votes: 0

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge. Votes: 0

Now more than ever the world needs your brilliance, your voice, your unique imagination, and your particular genius. Votes: 0

Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die. Votes: 0

In the middle of my heart, a star appeared, and the seven heavens were lost in its brilliance. Votes: 0

The brilliance of morning is in sharp contrast with the darkness of night" - Woman thou art loosed Votes: 0

She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. Votes: 0

Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond. Votes: 0

The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people. Votes: 0

I saw "Follies" again at thirty, and you know, I had this great appreciation for [Stephen] Sondheim's brilliance, his lyrics. Votes: 0

Most victories came from instantly exploiting your enemy's stupid mistakes, and not from any particular brilliance in your own plan. Votes: 0

All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God's brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of the sun. Votes: 0

You are the forward edge of life's advancement; in this moment in time you are the finest expression of life's brilliance. Votes: 0

...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance. Votes: 0

Whatever that ["transfiguration" by Bob Dylan] means, it's true that the poetic brilliance of the early career would never really reappear. Votes: 0

As is often the case, the sole person not left speechless in awe by my brilliance is my own beloved wife. Votes: 0

Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest. Votes: 0

When you are clearly-defined, deliberate with intention and operating at your highest level, your brilliance cannot be hidden, diminished or overshadowed. Votes: 0

At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon. Votes: 0

Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board. Votes: 0

Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease. Votes: 0

It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism... such a talent was Janis Joplin. Votes: 0

...though the conversation always touched an exceptionally high level of brilliance, there was apt to be a good deal of sugar thrown about. Votes: 0

You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must. Votes: 0

I strongly urge students to learn to take risks, to be bold, to let their genius convert that fear into power and brilliance. Votes: 0

A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder. Votes: 0

Before the beginning of brilliance, there must be great chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd. Votes: 0

The penetrating brilliance of swords, wielded by followers of the Way, strikes at the evil enemy, lurking deep within, their own souls and bodies. Votes: 0

Accept and acknowledge your own brilliance. Stop waiting for others to tell you how great you are! Believe it for yourself and about yourself. Votes: 0

The ultimate power of a successful general staff lies, not in the brilliance of its individual members, but in the cross-fertilisation of its collective abilities. Votes: 0

I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined to gaze on brilliance and gaiety at any cost. Votes: 0

The undisturbed mind is like the calm body water reflecting the brilliance of the moon. Empty the mind and you will realize the undisturbed mind. Votes: 0

Some of my best memories are sitting on my dad's lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis and others for their brilliance and perfection. Votes: 0

You would think with all the genius and the brilliance of these times, we might find a higher purpose and a better use of mind. Votes: 0

I admire some people for their brilliance and I respect others for their strength. But I am indebted to those who can rekindle my spirit. Votes: 0

The poetic image ["¦] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes. Votes: 0

Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten inside. Votes: 0

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence. Votes: 0

A real leader is not the top dog who merely shouts down orders. a leader is one who holds the space for the brilliance of others. Votes: 0

There are times, where I am sad for the public. I am sad, because they do not get to know the brilliance that is Sebastian Janikowski. Votes: 0

Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating. Votes: 0

I can't rationalize the brilliance and knowledge that you have about the intricacies of the market with the crazy bullshit I see you do each night. Votes: 0

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality. Votes: 0

[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their free choice, creativity and brilliance. Votes: 0

There are moments that I`ve had some real brilliance, you know. But I think they are moments. And sometimes, in a career, moments are enough. Votes: 0

Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us. Votes: 0

Some people's brilliance is in their head. A surgeon's brilliance is in her hands. But there are people who have brilliant hearts. They shine right through them. Votes: 0

Opportunities, creative ideas or the lack of them, happiness, frustration, brilliance, talent, success and failure - all are determined by the state of mind that you're in. Votes: 0

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end. Votes: 0

When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact. Votes: 0

When a precious secret is collected It tends to glow in the darkness. Placed in daylight, fitted along a wide landscape of fact, it often loses its brilliance. Votes: 0

You cannot sell a man who isn't listening; word of mouth is the best medium of all; and dullness won't sell your product, but neither will irrelevant brilliance. Votes: 0

When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact Votes: 0

Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun. Votes: 0

Melissa Pritchard's prose, that darkly lyrical firmament, is brightened by the dizzy luminous arrangement of her stars and satellites, her great gifts to us: humor, irony, kindness, brilliance. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake. Votes: 0

Here is just emptiness. There is no getting my ego out of the way, and all that stuff. There is just the seeing, shining in great brilliance and clarity. Votes: 0

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it. Votes: 0

Yellow is the brightest and lightest of all colors, and this brilliance is its most noticeable characteristic, which accounts for the way it is used practically and thought of symbolically. Votes: 0

Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener. Votes: 0

The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark. Votes: 0

A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them. Votes: 0

People weren't firecrackers who burst into the night sky with brilliance and glory, and a moment later faded away to nothing. Our souls had to be more lasting than that. Votes: 0

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience. Votes: 0

Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! And transform your entire being into the image of the Godhead Itself through contemplation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You could wonder for hours what flowers mean, but for me, they're life itself, in all its happy brilliance. We couldn't do with out flowers. Flowers help you forget life's tragedies. Votes: 0

Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. "¦ He's at his best when he unleashes his extraordinary powers of observation. Votes: 0

Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud." Votes: 0

Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud. Votes: 0

The cross is the great jewel of the Christian faith and like every great jewel it has many precious facets that are each worthy of examining for their brilliance and beauty. Votes: 0

Humanity has determined it is supreme in the kingdom of animals, yet [the] beasts live a less tragic existence...and many of their tragedies are a consequence of so-called human brilliance. Votes: 0

What is writing, no matter how lavish the pieces, if it says nothing of the truth, cares little for the heart, and is merely subservient to the pleasure of showing one's brilliance. Votes: 0

Steve [Jobs'] brilliance is his ability to see something and then understand it and then figure out how to put it into the context of his design methodology - everything is design. Votes: 0

The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan. Votes: 0

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero. Votes: 0

Even if the creative brilliance sparks only once, it needs to be accelerated and developed so it has self-sustaining strategies to continue adding value to both the initiator and those it serves. Votes: 0

Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it. Votes: 0

Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments of brilliance, but also moments of utter catastrophe. Votes: 0

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world. Votes: 0

We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents. Votes: 0

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still. Votes: 0

The Booker triumph of Graham Swift's moving, effortlessly profound Last Orders is a vindication of the quiet, much-misunderstood path this fine writer chose to take after the brilliance of Waterland more than ten years ago. Votes: 0

After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end. - Saphira Votes: 0

The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening. Votes: 0

Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our peculiar, urban, twentieth-century Thoreau, the quintessential American mind of our time. Votes: 0

Rumors are like lightning on summer tinder, producing flames that dance in flickering brilliance from person to person, sometimes flaring in great conflagrations of exaggeration before finally extinguishing themselves in the cold waters of fact. Votes: 0