Brilliant Quotes
1171 Brilliant quotes by 943 unique authors
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Silicon Valley, "the largest legal creation of wealth in history," was built largely by unprofessional amateurs using math, sand, and the institutions of freedom. The…
— Michael Strong
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Care not what they say about the color of your skin let the brilliant light of your soul blind them.
— Michael Dolan
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Sincerity becomes apparent. From being apparent, it becomes manifest. From being manifest, it becomes brilliant. Brilliant, it affects others. Affecting others, they are changed by…
— Confucius
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Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like…
— Richard Branson
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Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious.
— Peter Drucker
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Conquer the thousands of man may not be called a winner, but be able to conquer yourself is called a brilliant conqueror!
— Sukarno
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Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.
— Eric Butterworth
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The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed…
— Eric Butterworth
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Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have…
— Pema Chodron
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It's a great story. It's available for anyone else who wants to try it. We're not brilliant. We're not unbelievable. We're just two people who…
— Jerry Moss
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Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and…
— Hervey Allen
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The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the…
— Lytton Strachey
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Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.
— Unknown Author
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I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got…
— James Ellroy
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As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.
— Robert E. Lee
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My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others....
— Thomas A. Edison
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Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights…
— Peter Drucker
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Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.
— Yuri Razuvaev
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It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant…
— Douglass North
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Surrounded yourself with brilliant people. You can't HELP but grow when that happens.
— Chris Brogan
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The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmonious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. And so did the most brilliant intelligence of…
— John F. Kennedy
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Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Before the beginning of brilliance, there must be great chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.
— Unknown Author
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The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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