Best 501 quotes in «brilliant quotes» category

[...] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.

Anything that I wanted to do in my career that I wanted to do always worked out. The stuff I got talked into always failed. All the stuff I was talked into, by brilliant managers, because it always came down to, "Know how much money you'll make?" And then it would just fail.

A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.

A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.

A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan. Splendid.

As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical abilities; his virtuosity in following complicated reasoning and his insights were supreme; yet he lacked absolute self confidence.

As an actor, Sean [Penn] is brilliant. And he's really an excellent director, as well. We got along really well.

As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious.

Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most brilliant, but Bach is the most comprehensive: he has said all there is to say.

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life

Benjamin Netanyahu is a fascinating figure.We say Nixonian about a lot of people. He really is Nixonian. He's brilliant. He's very isolated and insular.

Brilliant, inspiring . . . if you are on a pursuit of self-mastery, make time to read this!

Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all.

Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than many who are more famous. His capacities are solidly established; his promise is nearly infinite.

Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.

Britain is doing brilliant things around the world and that is why I described as a 'superpower on development'.

Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.

Brilliant, hard-earned and honest. The erasures and reappearances of figure and ground-that hard drama-have rarely been so movingly undertaken. A heartbreakingly beautiful work.

Brilliant. The Ontology Project is a post-graduate course in card magic.

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

Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.

But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content.

Can't argue with Gene Roddenberry. He was a pretty brilliant guy.

But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.

By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

Comandante Fidel Castro is a gifted communicator. He is a brilliant, brilliant mind. But the thing that struck me most about him was he was not a "nationalist.

Champions are brilliant at the basics.

Change is your friend not your foe, change is a brilliant opportunity to grow.

Challenge serves beautifully to introduce you to your best - and most brilliant - self.

Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.

Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.

Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

Daniel Radcliffe is one of the hardest working people I have ever encountered and someone that so loves what he's doing and so eager to learn and is so brilliant at what he does.

Disney is a huge presence when it comes to fairy tales because he’s made of them such brilliant artifacts in terms of movie-making. But it’s very hard to ignore what he’s done to them. I'm not interested in denigrating Disney or even commenting on him very much. I'm more interested in seeing what I can do with the stories myself.

Did you ever meet someone named Caleb?" I say. 'Caleb," Fernando says. "Yes, there was a Caleb in my initiate class. Brilliant, but he was... what's the colloquial term for it? A suck-up." he smirks.

Disabled children are equally entitled to an exciting and brilliant future.

Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.

Even brilliant scientists Google themselves.

Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you smell the stale cigarettes and cold brisket and you say, thank you for the pleasure.

Dylan is so brilliant. To me, he makes William Shakespeare look like Billy Joel.

Donald Trump is a brilliant and talented person, without a doubt.

Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.

Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.

Each of us is like a diamond, and each of us has the potential to be brilliant.

Every spoof gives more power to the original.

Everybody knows if it's on the Internet, some brilliant hacker can get at it.

Everyone we regard as brilliant has endured an enormous amount of failure.