Best 501 quotes in «brilliant quotes» category

We conquer, not in any brilliant fashion-we conquer by continuing.

We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that's what you seem to have mastered. You've used silence to great advantage in the film. It's brilliant.

We have to agree beforehand to divide the funniest lines between us. But Tina [Fey] is so brilliant that I just love every moment working with her and also just hanging out together as friends.

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.

We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers .

We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.

We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.

Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.

What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.

What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.

When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.

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

When people started reading me and talking to me about the work, they didn't say how funny, or how satiric, or how brilliant, or how this or how that, they said, how'd you get away with it? How'd you get that into print?

When somebody's ego is in service of really brilliant, innovative work, it's hard to, cause I'm such an asshole, it's hard to criticize their failures as a human sometimes.

When people call you brilliant it's always good, especially when the person heads up Russia.

Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary.

When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves.

When you’re obsessing about one thing, you can reach insights about how to solve hard problems. If you have too many things to think about, you’ll get to the superficial solution, not the brilliant one.

Without a plan, even the most brilliant business can get lost. You need to have goals, create milestones and have a strategy in place to set yourself up for success.

Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?

William Shakespeare was a brilliant writer and he only wrote the truth. So, if I dont believe it, I have to work really hard to see what that truth is so that I do; thats the only way I can make it believable for the audience.

Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy.

Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.

Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?

Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?

Why is it that the uneducated minds always criticize the brilliant minds?

Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind.

You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you’re less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone—not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee—push you around.

Would you go to see a brilliant actor who's been framed for something that he didn't do, and put him on a stage and say he's going to do Hamlet for you, and why don't you enjoy it? That's a hell of an analogy, but it's about the same thing.

Writing can be a lifeline, especially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your life and process of growth have been subjected to attempts at strangulation.

You are Brilliant and the Earth is Hiring.

You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.

You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.

You don't have to be very brilliant. You don't have to have such a wonderful education. You can be an outstanding success if you will only take what little you have, whether it's little or much, and start using it, putting it into operation, doing something about it, and doing something with it. And, of course, that calls for initiative.

You need not apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich, or smart.

You have to give credit where credit's due. Steve [Jobs] has been probably the single hardware/software forward-looking thinker and executor in our lifetime as an individual. He's quite a brilliant innovator.

You know, it's one thing about intellectuals, they prove that you can be absolutely brilliant and have no idea what's going on.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations.

You humiliate a rich person and they're still rich. You humiliate a brilliant person and they're still smart. A person who is well connected is still the king of England. But if you humiliate a young person, you take away the only form of power they have.

All of us, at some point in life, get brilliant ideas...only a few of us have the courage to take the next step.

A brilliant idea is like a baby in a mothers womb. You need to bring it out in the world, nurture it, feed it, grow it, till it becomes big enough to take care of itself. If you leave it at the stage of an idea itself, it is as good as non existent.

You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. But you didn't know. We made sure youo didn't know. You were reckless and brilliant and young. It's waht you were born for.

A good woman inspires a man; a brilliant woman interests him; a beautiful woman fascinates him; and a sympathetic woman gets him.

Be Brave... Be Bold... Be Brilliant!

And that person must be trying to prove to IDIA…” I pause. “Something. That he’s stronger? Or that he doesn’t need them?” I rub my forehead. “It sounded much more cohesive and brilliant in the shower.

Asking where memory is "located" in the brain is like asking where running is located in the body. There are certainly parts of the body that are more important (the legs) or less important (the little fingers) in performing the task of running but, in the end, it is an activity that requires complex coordination among a great many body parts and muscle groups. To extend the analogy, looking for differences between memory systems is like looking for differences between running and walking. There certainly are many differences, but the main difference is that running requires more coordination among the different body parts and can be disrupted by small things (such as a corn on the toe) that may not interfere with walking at all. Are we to conclude, then, that running is located in the corn on your toe?