Brilliant Ideas Quotes
156 quotes by 149 authors
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
— Aristotle
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good…
— Jane Austen
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Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.
— Richard Bach
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Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
— Mortimer Adler
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
— Max Beerbohm
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I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him…
— Ritchie Blackmore
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I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.
— Alton Brown
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Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the…
— Tim Burton
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
— Paul Cezanne
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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
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I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
— Winston Churchill
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Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and…
— Tom Clancy
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All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun, so homiletic creativity…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed.
— Carlo M. Cipolla
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Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.
— Jimmy Breslin
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Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure of language and…
— William Drenttel
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A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.
— Jack Canfield
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Let’s never forget that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true.
— Derek Sivers
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