Brilliance Quotes - Page 8

• In the middle of my heart, a star appeared, and the seven heavens were lost in its brilliance.

  Rumi

  Stars, Heart, Heaven

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• Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.

  Criss Jami

  Silly, Certain, Standards

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.6, Criss Jami

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• Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board.

  Carroll Smith

  Drawing, Important, Wheels

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• Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Hip Hop, Pavement, Hips

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• At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Stars, Night, Blue

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2897, Delphi Classics

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• After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end. - Saphira

  Christopher Paolini

  Men, Dragons, Facts

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.234, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?

  Connie Willis

  Writing, Cat, Conceited

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• Opportunities, creative ideas or the lack of them, happiness, frustration, brilliance, talent, success and failure - all are determined by the state of mind that you're in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Frustration, Opportunity, Ideas

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• What is virtue? reason put into practice: -talent? reason expressed with brilliance: -soul? reason delicately put forth; and genius is sublime reason.

  Andre Chenier

  Practice, Soul, Sublime

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• Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Passion, Two, Three

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• Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis. Our brilliance, our juiciness, our spiciness, is all mixed up with our craziness and our confusion, and therefore it doesn’t do any good to try to get rid of our so-called negative aspects, because in that process we also get rid of our basic wonderfulness. We can lead our life so as to become more awake to who we are and what we’re doing rather than trying to improve or change or get rid of who we are or what we’re doing. The key is to wake up, to become more alert, more inquisitive and curious about ourselves.

  Pema Chodron

  Keys, Confusion, Trying

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• Here's what I say: We will ignore the cult of doom and gloom and embrace the cause of zoom and boom. We will laugh at the stupidity of evil and hate, and summon the brilliance of praise and create. . . Life is crazily in love with us-wildly and innocently in love with us. The universe always gives us exactly what we need, exactly when we need it.

  Rob Brezsny

  Hate, Doom And Gloom, Evil

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• Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

  Saint Augustine

  Design, Graphic Design, Graphic

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• But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.

  Pema Chodron

  Eye, Awareness, Blink

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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• Your brilliance comes from your spirit. To deny it is arrogance. To accept it is humility.

  Alan Cohen

  Humility, Arrogance, Spirit

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• Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and addiction, which leaves you gasping from shock and laughing moments later: this is both the beauty and unique nature of her storytelling. With brilliance and courage, the author's brave and candid chronicle travels where no other memoir about mental illness and addiction has gone before. The Third Sunrise is an incredible triumph and Natalie Jeanne Champagne is without a doubt the most important new voice in this genre.

  Andy Behrman

  Pain, Unique, Agony

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• Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.

  Robin Sharma

  Book, Reading

  Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.5, Jaico Publishing House

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• All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of the sun.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Rays, Radiation, Sparks

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• She tended to be impatient with that sort of intellectual who, for all his brilliance, has never been able to arrive at the simple conclusion that to be reasonably happy you have to be reasonably good.

  Carolyn Kizer

  Simple, Intellectual, Able

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• Case (Keenum) is going to be the quarterback. We’re going to give him a chance to see how he can perform. I think the jury is still out. He’s got a lot of ability. He’s shown some flashes of brilliance and then he’s shown some rookie mistakes. We’ve got to see if we can improve, eliminate those mistakes, minimize those mistakes and continue some of the outstanding play that (we’ve) seen and see whether we think that he can be a starting quarterback in the NFL. At this point, we really don’t know.

  Bob McNair

  Mistake, Thinking, Play

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• We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Peace, War, Words Of Wisdom

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• Education is the Jewel casting brilliance into the future

  Mari Evans

  Jewels, Casting

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• It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

  Charles Peguy

  Creativity, Essence, Ideas

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• There are moments that I`ve had some real brilliance, you know. But I think they are moments. And sometimes, in a career, moments are enough.

  Dennis Hopper

  Real, Thinking, Careers

  Dennis Hopper, Nick Dawson (2012). “Dennis Hopper: Interviews”, p.205, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Genius is infinite painstaking.

  Michelangelo

  Creativity, Innovation, Genius

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