Brilliant Quotes - Page 23

• With FIVE DAYS, Douglas Kennedy has crafted a brilliant meditation on regret, fidelity, family, and second chances that will have you breathlessly turning pages to find out what happened in the past and what will happen next. At once heartbreaking and hopeful, it is a powerful new work of fiction by an internationally acclaimed writer at the height of his powers.

  Will Schwalbe

  Powerful, Regret, Past

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• Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert could understand. He was brilliant at cultivating a sense of control, even as events spun far beyond what could be managed with any certainty. He could will into being the confidence that eluded others, those less self-assured and, maybe sensibly, on humbler terms with the world.

  Ron Suskind

  Summer, Self, Events

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• Freddie Bryant is a brilliant young guitarist and composer.

  Kenny Burrell

  Young, Composer, Guitarist

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• A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.

  Helen Rowland

  Beautiful, Men, Inspire

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• Some books makes me want to go adventuring, others make me feel that they have saved me the trouble.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Book, Want, Trouble

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• I think if everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionaries and brilliant.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Luxury, Visionaries

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• I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Musician, Might, Belief

  Twitter post from Jun 21, 2014

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• To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must write dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next.

  Ray Bradbury

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

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• J. Ivy is a brilliant man with an incredible voice and a way with words. I've known him for over a decade and owe my stage name to him believing in me back then before I even had a record deal. I'm excited for him to share his truth with the world.

  John Legend

  Believe, Men, Ivy

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• Not even a great leader can get very far without great people to lead.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  People, Leader, Great Leader

  Ashleigh Brilliant (1985). “All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts”, Brilliant Enterprises

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• We dance to reclaim our brilliant ability to disappear in something bigger, something safe, a space without a critic or a judge or an analyst.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Space, Judging, Safe

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

  Robin Sharma

  Self, Challenges, Introducing

  Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.20, Jaico Publishing House

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• I don't deliberately select my friends because of their background. If I enjoy someone's company, then that's all that counts. I have many different friends who aren't from the same background as me and we get on really wellit's brilliant.

  Prince William

  Different, Select, Enjoy

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• The moment you understand yourself as the true Self, you find such peace and bliss that the impressions of the petty enjoyments you experienced before become as ordinary specks of light in front of the brilliant sun.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Light, Self, Ordinary

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

  Robin Sloan

  America, Google, Defense

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.55, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The objective of the Classical Art of Riding is to train the horse not only to be brilliant in the movements and the exercises of the High School but also to be quiet, supple and obedient and by his smooth movements to make riding a true pleasure

  Alois Podhajsky

  Art, Horse, School

  Alois Podhajsky (2013). “The Complete Training of Horse and Rider”, p.25, Doubleday

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• A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.

  Carol Zaleski

  Echoes, Play, Survival

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• One can feel the immense joy of Amy Hill Hearth's engagement in her first novel. It radiates through every scene and through every page. Sometimes, an exceptional writer finds an exceptional premise, and the result is a truly exceptional book. Such is the case with Miss Dreamsville...The writing is brilliant, especially the dialogue through which the characters are defined.

  Philip K. Jason

  Book, Writing, Character

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

  Jim Steinmeyer

  Magic, Cards, Ontology

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• When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves.

  Dale Carnegie

  Thinking, Ideas, Why Not

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.49, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Darkness cannot stand before the brilliant light of the Son of the Living God.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Son, Light, Darkness

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• Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Mistake, Army, Victory

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• Intercession is God’s brilliant strategy for including the saints in ruling with Him in power. Yet, it has such great impact on us as it draws us into intimacy with God, protects with humility, transforms with holiness, anoints with power, unifies in community, releases revelation, and increases our inheritance while it trains us to rule with His wisdom.

  Mike Bickle

  Humility, Impact, Community

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• A bad decision well implemented is better than a brilliant decision not well implemented.

  Peter Schutz

  Decision, Wells, Decision Making

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• I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.

  Eric Balfour

  Stuff, Chef, Disaster

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