Brilliance Quotes

• If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

  W. C. Fields

  Witty, Dazzle, Baffled

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Surround yourself with brilliance.

  Peter Gabriel

  Surround Yourself, Surround

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• Each of us is born brilliant. Then we spend the rest of our lives having our brilliance buried by people, circumstances, and experiences. Eventually, we forget that we ever had genius and special talents, and our brilliance is locked away in a vault deep within. So we settle for who we are, instead of striving for who we were meant to be.

  Simon T. Bailey

  People, Special, Genius

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• Accept and acknowledge your own brilliance. Stop waiting for others to tell you how great you are! Believe it for yourself and about yourself.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Believe, Waiting, Accepting

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Mar 08, 2015

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• Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Honesty, Inspirational Life

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• Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Kindness

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• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.

  Roger von Oech

  People, Working Together, Ordinary

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• Always remember your brilliance.

  Alexandra Stoddard

  Unique, Remember, Uniqueness

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• A real leader is not the top dog who merely shouts down orders. a leader is one who holds the space for the brilliance of others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Dog, Real, Order

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• Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been...frighten ed enough to hold it back. It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must.

  Seth Godin

  Art, People, Giving

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• There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Heart, People, Envy

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• What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

  Thomas Mann

  Eye, Jewels, Wonderful

  Thomas Mann (1992). “Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years”, Vintage

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• You're a star -- and so am I. I'm a genius -- and so are you.
  Your success encourages my brilliance, and my charisma enhances your power.
  Your victory doesn't require my defeat, and vice versa.

  Rob Brezsny

  Stars, Victory, Vices

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• The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

  Criss Jami

  Sitting Still, Order, Risk

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.91, Criss Jami

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• Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

  Confucius

  Life, Wise, Organization

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• Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

  Jose Marti

  Stars, Men, Light

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• One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.

  Cyril Cusack

  Generosity, Actors, Performances

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• I've wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don't want the responsibility inherent in the acknowledgment. We don't want to be characters in a story because characters have to move and breathe and face conflict with courage. And if life isn't remarkable, then we don't have to do any of that; we can be unwilling victims instead of grateful participants.

  Donald Miller

  Grateful, Moving, Responsibility

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• She enjoys rain for its wetness, winter for its cold, summer for its heat. She loves rainbows as much for fading as for their brilliance. It is easy for her, she opens her heart and accepts everything.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Summer, Rain, Heart

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• When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing, Market Risk

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.151, John Wiley & Sons

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• The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

  Robert Bresson

  Writing, Shining, Ordinary

  Robert Bresson (1977). “Notes on cinematography”

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• Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

  T. S. Eliot

  Christmas, Children, Moving

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.95, Faber & Faber

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• The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Anger, Achievement, Society

  "Collected Writings, Volume 1" by Omar N. Bradley, 1967.

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