Simple Brilliance Quotes

#1. The only way to consistently grow in B2B is to be better than very good.

Seth Godin

#2. It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition.

Jane Austen

#3. Ignorance isn't bliss, but neither is knowledge. Sometimes you just know more, but it doesn't make you any happier.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#4. Words are the wings of actions.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#5. Morphy gained most of his wins by playing directly and simply, and it is simple and logical method that constitutes the true brilliance of his play, if it is considered from the viewpoint of the great masters.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#6. She tended to be impatient with that sort of intellectual who, for all his brilliance, has never been able to arrive at the simple conclusion that to be reasonably happy you have to be reasonably good.

Carolyn Kizer

#7. Empathy took the edge off, and the truth is, we need our edge. Our edge is trying to speak to us, and we are too, too good at shutting it up.

Deb Caletti

#8. Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.

Bobby Fischer

#9. We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?

Mitch Daniels

#10. The writer's job is to get naked ...

Harry Crews

#11. Sumatra has these lush forests and huge, amazing creatures like elephants, orangutans, and tigers. They're disappearing because of industry coming in and cutting down the forests.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#12. Arctic tern chicks are starving to death for similar reasons: they rely on small fish that have fled for colder waters.

Naomi Klein

#13. This year, of course, being 1936, there would be no figs.

Alan Furst

#14. Irrespective of whether you suspect you are able to do a factor or not, that you are right

Henry Ford

#15. I have a 6-year-old daughter, and we never look through magazines. But when we're on a plane, that's the one time we have screen-time and magazine-time sometimes. And I do not open a magazine with her without saying: 'Now remind me, are these real pictures?'

Alysia Reiner

#16. He deconstructed things in his head," I said slowly. "Then he put them back together in a way I could understand. Brilliance is seeing what others can't and rendering it simple.

Stephanie Kegan