Quotes on Brilliance

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

I pray you never stand at any crossroads in your own lives, but if you do, if the darkness seems so total, if you think there is no way out, remember, never ever give up. The darker the night, the brighter the dawn, and when it gets really, really dark, this is when one sees the true brilliance of the stars.

A real leader is not the top dog who merely shouts down orders. a leader is one who holds the space for the brilliance of others.

Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion.

Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening.

If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?

It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends, and it's not the glamour of the Presidency, or the wonder of going to receive the Nobel Prize. All those are important, of course. But maybe it's just that I'm 71 years old now. It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends. I would tell them that. Don't forget that. In your brilliance, don't turn your back on your friends. Don't think you're entitled to something, you're smarter than the next guy.

You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance

Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! And transform your entire being into the image of the Godhead Itself through contemplation.

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

Genius is infinite painstaking.

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The Truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason.

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.