Brilliance Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wisdom, Sadness, Joy

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 12, 2016

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

  John Mortimer

  Law, Common Sense, Nails

  A Voyage Round My Father act 1 (1971)

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

  Mary Balogh

  Passion, Sunset, Soul

  Mary Balogh (2003). “A Summer to Remember”, p.67, Dell

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• The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Art, Advantage, Results

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• 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.

  Sally Field

  Lawyer, Found, Mary

  "OSCARS Q&A: Sally Field". Interview with David Mermelstein, deadline.com. December 12, 2012.

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• I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of the daisy. I understood that if all the lowly flowers wished to be roses, nature would no longer be enamelled with lovely hues. And so it is in the world of souls, Our lord's living garden.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Beautiful, Sweet, Flower

  Saint Therese of Lisieux (2007). “The Story of the Soul”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The best revenge is the massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad and hoping that we’re good, the identities that we so dearly cling to, the rage, the jealousy and the addictions of all kinds—never touch our basic wealth. They are like clouds that temporarily block the sun. 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.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspiring, Block, Eye

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.1, Shambhala Publications

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• Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.

  James Sinegal

  Salary, Messages, Company

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• Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness — and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling — their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.

  Arundhati Roy

  Art, War, Believe

  Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.112, South End Press

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• I believe that human brilliance manifests itself only in flashes, among rare individuals. For this reason, humanity as a whole is enormously destructive: the creation of something as devastating as Western culture, which is now allowed to spread throughout the world, offers sufficient proof of this fact.

  Pentti Linkola

  Believe, Humanity, Western Culture

  Pentti Linkola (2011). “Can Life Prevail?”, p.133, Arktos

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• 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.

  Clare of Assisi

  Faith, Inspiration, Mirrors

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• Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Morning, Moon, Thinking

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (1995). “This Side of Paradise”, p.102, Cambridge University Press

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

  Albert M. Greenfield

  Men, Energy, Needs

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• Of course you can do it. It doesn't require brilliance. It's just giving yourself permission and then being persistent. Persistent in seeing the problem or opportunity and persistent in thinking about it until you have come up with some interesting ideas that might change the pattern. It's really a mindset, not anything in the objective world - that is the problem.

  Bill Drayton

  Opportunity, Thinking, Ideas

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

  Ann Landers

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Ann Landers (2017). “Since You Ask Me”, p.76, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• 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.

  Andre Gide

  Flames, Deeds, Action

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

  Stephen Fry

  May, Sometimes, Wonder

  "Some British actors are overrated by Hollywood, claims Fry" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2007.

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• There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world even though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind.

  Hannah Szenes

  Stars, Dark, Night

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

  Hedy Lamarr

  Hair, Jewels, Should Have

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• 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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Art, Honor

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  John Sculley

  Jobs, Design, Methodology

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• Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and lie for hundreds of years on the ocean floor. Worms destroy the wood. Iron corrodes. Silver turns black but gold doesn't change in sea water. It loses none of its brilliance or colour. It comes up the same. It survives shipwrecks and time.

  Michael Robotham

  True Friend, Father, Lying

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• Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness.

  Brad Thor

  Razors, Madness, Incredibles

  Brad Thor (2013). “Brad Thor Collectors' Edition #4: The Athena Project, Full Black, and Black List”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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

  Seth Godin

  Art, Marketing, Valuable

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.7, Penguin

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