33 quotes found
“Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.”
“It would be unfair to expect other people to be as brilliant as oneself.”
“The heart is stubborn. It holds onto love despite what sense and emotion tells it. And it is often, in the battle of those three, the most brilliant of all.”
“I am not brilliant. I am curious and persistent.”
“It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly comm...”
“Sometimes, the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.”
“If you only have one world, one life, then however brilliant it is most of the time, you have nowhere to run when you need to escape from it for a while.”
“All of us, at some point in life, get brilliant ideas...only a few of us have the courage to take the next step.”
“This is what is called speaking. I believe that is the term. When words come out, fly into the air, live for a moment, and die. Strange, is it not? I myself have no opinion. No and no again. But st...”
“Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meanin...”
“we hear the most brilliant ideas and suggestions we failure comes our way”
“we hear brilliant and great suggestions when failure comes our way”
“It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps...”
“I saw [Linus Pauling] as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the centurys greatest chemist. No doubt about it.”
“If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not ...”
“Hes such an extraordinarily brilliant person that it would be terrible if he let himself do nothing in the end.”
“Well, typically the state of hypnosis is perfected at the right combination of light and sound frequency when the mind completely relaxes. At this state, the mind also becomes highly suggestible, w...”
“There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.”
“When the people are not enlightened enough to exercise intelligent control, you take it from them, not to command their lives, but to create a safe depository for the ultimate powers.”
“Did you just tease me with more Jim Sterling?" Mandi Castle; read her book; Dear Stephanie.”