Brilliant Ideas Quotes - Page 2

• The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

  Quintilian

  Faults, Brilliant, Excellent

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.1829, Delphi Classics

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• It's important not to overstate the benefits of ideas. Quite frankly, I know it's kind of a romantic notion that you're just going to have this one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great. But the fact is that coming up with an idea is the least important part of creating something great. It has to be the right idea and have good taste, but the execution and delivery are what's key.

  Sergey Brin

  Business, Ideas, Creating

  "Secrets of a Nimble Giant". Interview with Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2009.

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• It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

  John Norman

  Mastery, Excellent, One Thing

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• Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

  Plutarch

  Enemy, Quality, Excellent

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• People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.

  John Polkinghorne

  Book, Ideas, People

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• I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

  Adam Savage

  Ideas, Very Good, Good Ideas

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• To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.

  Keith Richards

  Squares, Two, Feet

  "Excerpt: New book chronicles Keith Richards interviews". Interview with Whitney Matheson, www.usatoday.com. September 9, 2013.

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• A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Good Morning, Good Night, Good Day

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• Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Able, Speak, Excellent

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• I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

  Robin Wright

  Acting, Actors, Levels

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• If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Hard Work, Men, Ideas

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• To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

  Max Beerbohm

  Giving, Needs, Brilliant

  The Yellow Book, Jan. 1895

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• Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Light, Two

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• The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.

  Ron Chernow

  Father, Vision, Systematic

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• Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

  Mortimer Adler

  Men, Three, Way

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• A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

  Freeman Dyson

  Science, Ideas, Engineering

  "Disturbing the Universe". Book by Freeman Dyson, 1979.

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• When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.

  Ernie Harwell

  Careers, Brooklyn, Height

  Tom Keegan, Ernie Harwell (2002). “Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball”, Triumph Books (IL)

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• Paris is always a good idea.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Travel, Ideas

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• Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

  Douglas Horton

  Ideas, Dimes, Dozen

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• I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Attitude, Way, Brilliant

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• Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Lying, Atheism, Use

  "The Wild Duck".

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• The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

  Michael Jackson

  Bees, Brilliant, Great Music

  "Michael Jackson, the King of Pop" by Jel D. Lewis Jones, 2005.

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• Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. I love your voice man, you give me chills... Brilliant.

  Randy Jackson

  Men, Voice, Giving

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• A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Work, Ideas, Luck

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• All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Believe, Simple

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