Brilliant Quotes - Page 15

• The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.

  Will Shetterly

  Writing, Opportunity, Fake

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• Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be.

  John Smith

  Stupid, Men, Mind

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• There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

  Marva Collins

  Education, Children, Teaching

  Marva Collins, Civia Tamarkin (1984). “Marva Collins Way”, Tarcher

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• Wolf in White Van is beautiful, enigmatic, and sad, and like every other brilliant thing John Darnielle has ever done, it seems to come from some fully imagined universe, of which we only get to see this haunting, enticing sliver. I utterly love it.

  J. Robert Lennon

  Beautiful, White, Done

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• Alone we are smart. Together we are brilliant.

  Steven Anderson

  Education, Children, Smart

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• No matter how many times your amazing, absolutely brilliant work is rejected by the client, for whatever dopey, arbitrary reason, there is often another amazing, absolutely brilliant solution possible.
  Sometimes it's even better.

  Bob Gill

  Design, Arbitrary, Matter

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• Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork prevails: What one of us, even the most brilliant among us, misses, another of us, even someone much less celebrated and capable, may detect and rectify.

  Carl Sagan

  Teamwork, Mistake, Missing

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• We have got too many kids around the house to have a romantic meal at home. But Danielle is a ­fantastic cook. She does a brilliant ­lasagne, great roasts and a great chilli dish. She knows the way to my heart.

  Gary Lineker

  Romantic, Kids, Home

  "Gary Lineker reveals he's staying with the BBC.. and reveals men fall over themselves to speak to Danielle in the street". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. October 9, 2011.

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• When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is the student offering himself to the teacher, or the teacher offering herself to the student. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors.

  Laozi

  Teacher, Two, Mirrors

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• In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are, if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete. We have got to have officers who can create harmony across all those lines.

  James Mattis

  Military, Home, Enemy

  James Mattis' speech at the US Joint Forces Command Conference, May 2010.

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• A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Education, School, Writing

  Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.25, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Their brilliant audio expert, who is a marine biologist, should really be looking after Flipper

  Rob Halford

  Marine, Experts, Audio

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• EVERY SINGLE DANCER, SINGER and BAND MEMBER is a BRILLIANT SOLO ARTIST

  Ben Brantley

  Artist, Dancer, Band

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• People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.

  Octavia Butler

  Giving Up, Writing, Persistence

  Octavia E. Butler (2011). “Bloodchild and Other Stories”, p.148, Seven Stories Press

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• All masters want to appear more brilliant than other people.

  Robert Greene

  People, Want, Masters

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.4, Profile Books

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• The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

  Immanuel Kant

  Math, Science, Example

  Immanuel Kant (1881). “Critique of Pure Reason”

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• ...we may be able to prove conclusively that all men are born with potentially brilliant intellects...and that the source of cultural creativity is the consciousness that springs from social cooperation and loving interaction...the majority of us live far below our potential, because of the oppressive nature of most societies.

  John Blacking

  Music, Spring, Creativity

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• A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Two, Creative, Leader

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• Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later in walks Django with an entourage of friends. He always traveled with a large group-carried his own admirers with him, the most sinister-looking bunch of hoodlums you've ever seen. I walked up and offered to buy him a drink. That seemed to be the right thing to do... he was the first really brilliant solo guitarist I ever became aware of, I had records of his when I was 10 years old. It just blew my mind that anyone could play a guitar like that. Still does.

  Charlie Byrd

  Music, Brother, Django

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• Simple, practical, brilliant. What a wonderful world it will be when all families give their children the gifts presented in Dr. Reznick’s book. Joy, success . . . and health and happiness are just around the corner!

  Harvey Karp

  Children, Book, Simple

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• Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.

  Brian Chesky

  People, Kind, Millions

  "The Best Advice Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky Ever Received" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. January 13, 2013.

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• If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.

  Xunzi

  Motivational, Achievement, Effort

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• Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.

  Thomas Sowell

  Men, Ninety Nine, Ideas

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, Basic Books

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• The day is refracted, and the next and the one after that, all of them broken up into a hundred juggled segments, each brilliant and self-contained so that the hours are no longer linear but assorted like bright sweets in a jar.

  Penelope Lively

  Sweet, Self, Broken

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• Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength.

  Reed Hastings

  Success, Business, Thinking

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