Brilliant Ideas Quotes - Page 5

• Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Light, Two

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• The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.

  Ron Chernow

  Father, Vision, Systematic

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• A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

  Freeman Dyson

  Science, Ideas, Engineering

  "Disturbing the Universe". Book by Freeman Dyson, 1979.

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• If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Ideas, People, Twenties

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• One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

  Epictetus

  Sports, Philosophical, Perfection

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• Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

  Federico Fellini

  Thinking, Genius, Excellent

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.

  Roger Moore

  Nice, Oysters, France

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• Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!

  Errol Morris

  Country, Thinking, Years

  The 76th Annual Academy Awards, www.imdb.com. February 29, 2004.

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• It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

  John Norman

  Mastery, Excellent, One Thing

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• To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.

  Keith Richards

  Squares, Two, Feet

  "Excerpt: New book chronicles Keith Richards interviews". Interview with Whitney Matheson, www.usatoday.com. September 9, 2013.

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• I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

  Robin Wright

  Acting, Actors, Levels

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• People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.

  John Polkinghorne

  Book, Ideas, People

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• I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

  Adam Savage

  Ideas, Very Good, Good Ideas

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• Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow.

  Henry Winkler

  Character, Play, Goofy

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• A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Good Morning, Good Night, Good Day

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• Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Able, Speak, Excellent

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• What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Literature, Language, Excellent

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• Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

  Brian Schweitzer

  Government, Ideas, Backbone

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• I don’t know whose brilliant idea that was, but it wasn’t mine, that’s for sure.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Ideas, Brilliant, Mines

  "I Am Ozzy". Book by Ozzy Osbourne, 2011.

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• These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

  Douglas Sirk

  Meaningful, Promise, Rotten

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• You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'

  Amy Tan

  Writing, Ideas, Looks

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

  Plutarch

  Enemy, Quality, Excellent

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• One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.

  David Milne

  Attractive Things, Scotland, People

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• I think Sarah Michelle Gellar has done some brilliant work as Buffy.

  Julie Benz

  Thinking, Done, Brilliant

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• If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Done, Brilliant, Versions

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