Brilliant Quotes - Page 19

• I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.'

  Noel Gallagher

  Believe, Thinking, Musician

  4 Copy quote

• I did drugs for 18 years and I never got that bad as to say, 'You know what? I think the Kaiser Chiefs are brilliant.'

  Noel Gallagher

  Thinking, Years, Drug

  "Mark Ronson: 'Jay-Z is teaching me to play Wonderwall'" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2008.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivation, Inspiration, School

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2015). “Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education”, p.9, Penguin

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever.

  Helena Christensen

  Believe, I Believe, Invention

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

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.

  Gene Simmons

  Inspirational, Stupid, Wind

  41 Copy quote

• Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, London, Idiot

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.7, Oscar Wilde

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.

  Robert Genn

  Beauty, Appreciation, Exercise

  48 Copy quote

• No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Ideas, Long

  "There's Only One Way To Make Your Company Really Grow" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. December 04, 2013.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Reed Hastings

  Teamwork, Cost, Jerk

  47 Copy quote

• . . . planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn't guarantee a recipe for success.

  Kathy Lette

  Guarantees, Recipes, Planning

  7 Copy quote

• The prosperity and advancement of a nation depend upon its intelligentsia, and Muslim India is looking forward to her young generation and education classes to give a bold lead for our guidance and a brilliant record of histrorical achievements and traditions.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Responsibility, Past, Young Generation

  "Some Recent Speeches and Writings of Mr. Jinnah", December 24, 1940.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• At this point in our global ecological crisis, the survival of humanity will require a fundamental shift in our attitude toward nature: from finding out how we can dominate and manipulate nature to how we can learn from her. In this brilliant and hopeful book, Jay Harman shows us how far the new field of Biomimicry has already progressed toward this goal. The Shark's Paintbrush makes for fascinating and joyful reading - much needed in these dark times.

  Fritjof Capra

  Attitude, Reading, Book

  32 Copy quote

• A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.

  Jack Canfield

  Baseball, Ideas, Bats

  8 Copy quote

• No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.

  David Brainerd

  Profound, Soul, Able

  45 Copy quote

• I don't like the fact that no one has any imagination anymore. It doesn't pay to be a dreamer because all they really want you to do is answer the phone. Nobody wants you to think about anything new or use your brain or make anything interesting because everything important has already been made. America is over; it's done being brilliant.Everything genius has already been built, like all the great works of art have already been produced.

  Joe Meno

  Art, Thinking, Phones

  5 Copy quote

• Steve Lawson is a brilliant musician. I've known about him and listened to him for many years. He may not be one of the most famous bassists but he is definitely one of the most talented.

  Victor Wooten

  Years, Musician, May

  17 Copy quote

• I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

  Ntozake Shange

  People, Use, Language

  64 Copy quote

• I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.

  Ntozake Shange

  Girl, Writing, Thinking

  "Back at you". Interview with Rebecca Carroll, www.motherjones.com. January 1995.

  74 Copy quote

  Show source

• These three things-work, will, success-fill human existences. Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy. Work passes these doors, and at the end of the journey success comes in to crown one's efforts.

  Louis Pasteur

  Success, Journey, Doors

  50 Copy quote

• Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Inspirational, Life, Games

  "The Wisdom Of Ashleigh Brilliant" by Henry Alford, www.ashleighbrilliant.com.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are.

  Seth Godin

  Keys, Acting, Reputation

  9 Copy quote

• Let’s never forget that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true.

  Derek Sivers

  Motivation, Inspiration, Opposites

  16 Copy quote

• Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.

  Eric Maisel

  Beautiful, Persons, Happens

  8 Copy quote

• My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I cant do anything about.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Problem, Cant

  5 Copy quote

• You are Brilliant and the Earth is Hiring.

  Paul Hawken

  Earth, Hiring

  Paul Hawken's Commencement Address at University of Portland in Portland, Oregon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source