Brilliance Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.

  Bill Vaughan

  Heart, Men, Mistress

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• We had stayed up all night, my friends and I, under hanging mosque lamps with domes of filigreed brass, domes starred like our spirits, shining like them with the prisoned radiance of electric hearts. For hours we had trampled our atavistic ennui into rich oriental rugs, arguing up to the last confines of logic and blackening many reams of paper with our frenzied scribbling.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Writing, Heart, Night

  "The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism" by F. T. Marinetti. Le Figaro, www.italianfuturism.org. February 20, 1909.

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• 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.

  Edwin Land

  Patents, Alive, World

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

  Toni Morrison

  Men, Imagination, Creative

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• 18th September, 1970; Jimi Hendrix dies. I'm still on the football team when I get the news. So I take my helmet off and confront the coach to tell him I'm quitting the team. In a moment of brilliance he gives me one look and says "OK".

  Joe Satriani

  Football, Team, Giving

  "Joe Satriani: The Satch Tapes". Music, Video, 1993.

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• One day passes and another day comes along, and everything happens the same. But basically, we are so afraid of the brilliance coming at us, and the sharp experience of our life, that we can't even focus our eyes.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Eye, Focus, Grace

  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.90, Shambhala Publications

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• 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.

  Hayden Carruth

  Thinking, Giving, Mind

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Meditation, Want

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• Helping people develop their own brilliance is much more effective than giving them yours

  Garrison Wynn

  People, Giving, Helping

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• 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.

  Louis Nizer

  Expression, Preparation, Trials

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• Perform with elan, brilliance and dash - at concert pitch.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Concerts

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• 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.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Emotional, Levels

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• 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.

  Michael Freeman

  Color, Yellow, Way

  Michael Freeman (2013). “The Colour Photography Field Guide: The Essential Guide to Hue for Striking Digital Images”, p.78, Hachette UK

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• It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.

  Ted Dekker

  Dark, Light, Evil

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• I would say the only one person I know of who kind of combines the elements that my father brought to the table in terms of affecting the public discourse would be Oliver Stone. His combination of academic brilliance and real life experience and just understanding people I think is what makes him such a great storyteller, but also he cares. He is interested. He meets somebody and he listens to them. He has some questions. He wants to know what they're about. And as a result I think his worldview is much more complex and whole and most of the other.

  John Buffalo Mailer

  Father, Real, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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.

  Michelle Obama

  Cheer, Memories, Dad

  "Michelle Obama steals the show in Copenhagen" by Ed Henry, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2009.

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• 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.

  Marc Chagall

  Flower, Mean, Tragedy

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• 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.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Past, Echoes, Poetic

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• Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today! I mean it. Shakespeare was a better stylist, Melville was more important to American letters, and Charles Dickens had a defter hand at creating characters. But among living writers, there is nobody who can even approach Gene Wolfe for brilliance of prose, clarity of thought, and depth in meaning

  Michael Swanwick

  Character, Mean, Hands

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

  Kathy Reichs

  Book, Successful, Numbers

  "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2008.

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• Playing in the same team as Sachin is a huge honour. His balance of mind, shrewd judgment, modesty and, above all, his technical brilliance make him my all-time hero. You can't get a more complete cricketer than Sachin. He has everything that a cricketer needs to have

  Rahul Dravid

  Team, Hero, Mind

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

  Clive Davis

  Energy, Genius, Sparks

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