Brilliance Quotes - Page 3

• To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.

  Shane Koyczan

  Discovery, Average, Deep Thought

  Twitter post from Aug 29, 2013

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  A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

  Charles Kettering

  Creativity, Engineering, Innovation

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

  Homer

  Summer, Stars, Ocean

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.145, University of Chicago Press

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• The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for so long by the rigidity of traditional scholarship, is as exciting and surprising as a bestselling murder mystery; I simply couldn't put it down. Through scholarly brilliance and passion, Adrienne Mayor has opened the door to a forgotten world of gender equality, and her book ought to be required reading in every college history course.

  Anne Fortier

  Book, Reading, Passion

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• There is a clarity, a brilliance to space that simply doesn't exist on earth, even on a cloudless summer's day in the Rockies, and nowhere else can you realize so fully the majesty of our Earth and be so awed at the thought that it's only one of untold thousands of planets.

  Gus Grissom

  Summer, Space, Earth

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• The brilliance of contemplated beauty opens the spirit to the mystery of God.

  Angelo Sodano

  Faith, Inspiration, Spirit

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• Experience trumps brilliance.

  Thomas Sowell

  Political, Trump

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

  Patanjali

  Yoga, Perfection, Grace

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

  Cheikh Anta Diop

  Glasses, Balls, Language

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• 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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Running, Flames, Sensual

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.167, D. H. Lawrence

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• 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.

  Minna Antrim

  Men, Champagne, Companion

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• McAvoy's bonkers brilliance will blow you away.

  Peter Travers

  Blow

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• 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.

  Gennifer Choldenko

  Heart, Hands, People

  Gennifer Choldenko (2013). “If A Tree Falls At Lunch Break”, p.131, A&C Black

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• There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Color, True Colors, Exaggeration

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

  Orson Scott Card

  Mistake, Stupid, Enemy

  "Ender's Shadow". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1999.

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• 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.

  Reg Revans

  Inspirational, Lying, Successful

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• No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish.

  Max Stirner

  Selfish, School, Merit

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• Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It came in a spurt of brilliance. It is shot through with originality, verve, and-why not go all the way?-genius. People love it, can't get enough of it, can't stop performing it-and they are not wrong. For closing in on a half- century now, The Music Man has been performed continually, in every American city, town, and village, and in other parts of the world as well, not excluding Peking.

  Meredith Willson

  Men, Cities, People

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

  Bob Dylan

  Mean, Careers, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Read Mann's notes, which contain precise accounts of cholera and its symptoms, and observe how careful he is throughout his fiction in getting medical details straight - then you might begin to wonder whether cholera is the only candidate for the cause of Aschenbach's death. What results from this, I think, is a deeper appreciation of Mann's brilliance in keeping so many possibilities in play. The ambiguity is even more artful than people have realized.

  Philip Kitcher

  Appreciation, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence that generalized skills are in any way superior to specialized brilliance.

  Tom Robbins

  Skills, Way, May

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.137, Bantam

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

  Kelis

  Breastfeeding, Feels

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• The sun has a sense of all-pervasive brilliance, which does not discriminate in the slightest. It is the goodness that exists in a situation, in oneself, and in one's world, which is expressed without doubt, hesitation, or regret. The sun principle also includes the notion of blessings descending upon us and creating sacred world. It also represents clarity, without doubt.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Regret, Blessing, Creating

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Seven: The Art of Calligraphy (Excerpts); Dharma Art; Visual Dharma (Excerpts); Selecte d Poems; Selected Writings”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the people who want censorship. But this would deny those of us who don't believe in censorship the use of the only counter-balance: the freedom of the press to say that there's anything conceivably damaging in these films - the freedom to analyze their implications. How can people go on talking about the dazzling brilliance of movies and not notice that the directors are sucking up to the thugs in the audience?

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Believe, Thug

  "Stanley Strangelove". Review of "A Clockwork Orange" in January 1972. "Deeper into Movies". Book by Pauline Kael, www.visual-memory.co.uk. 1973.

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• Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers, fears, or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled, the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated, the spark and brilliance are also gone.

  Indra Devi

  Personality, Anxiety, Gone

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