Brilliance

At TED, brilliance is rampant.

That was part of his brilliance, too.

I swear by the sun and its brilliance,

The bad news is that without wisdom, brilliance isn't enough.

Every time I saw him, I was overcome with his brilliance.

It's about changing education to respect and build from young people's brilliance.

Again and again biologists are fascinated with the brilliance of what's discovered.

And at TED here in February, their passion and brilliance just took our breath away.

I don't know that I am completely reassured now, after beholding him in all his brilliance.

It's not some flash or brilliance by somebody who then codes 24 hours a day for three weeks.

I'm going to start with a few nursery rhymes, and then build to a crescendo of literary brilliance.

Do you wake up in the night sometimes, just asking questions about the possibly unintended consequences of your team's brilliance?

Do you wake up in the night sometimes, just asking questions about the possibly unintended consequences of your team's brilliance?

I bet many of you have seen the Apple commercials, kind of poking at the PC for their brilliance and simplicity.

Dialog kept on going, with mental maps of words, and pretty soon it was becoming obvious that instead of being dazzled with brilliance,

And there is indeed a fire burning over the Earth, taking with it not only plants and animals, but the legacy of humanity's brilliance.

In August 2007, Claron was awarded the Amsterdam Prize for the Arts, winning praise for her brilliance, her amazing and extensively wide repertoire and her vivid stage personality.

At the moment of greatest brilliance the darkness leaped back with a culminating crash, and he vanished before my dazzled eyes as utterly as though he had been blown to atoms.

And we have had examples over and over and over again you've just heard one in the last 15 minutes of people who have not only had that commitment, but had the charisma, the brilliance and I think in this room it's easy to use the word brilliant, my God the brilliance to succeed at least at the beginning of their quest, and who no doubt will continue to succeed, as long as more and more of us enlist ourselves in their cause.

This is an amazing group of people who are doing so much, using so much of their talent, their brilliance, their energy, their money, to make the world a better place, to fight to fight wrongs, to solve problems.

And then intense magnetic fields directed some of the energy of that gravitational collapse and some of the matter back out in the form of tremendous jets, which illuminated lobes with the brilliance of I think it's a trillion suns.

But are we to assume that the same brilliance and creativity and adaptability that got us up to the top of that energy mountain in the first place is somehow mysteriously going to evaporate when we have to design a creative way back down the other side?

It could have looked like shop windows on Fifth Avenue at Christmas, but because of the way that Andrew connected with the McQueen team, he was channeling the rawness and the brilliance of McQueen, and the show was quite transcendant, and it became a phenomenon in its own right.

Whatever the ultimate economic effects of China s first modest step towards floating its currency, one has to admire its strategic brilliance. The genius of China s mini move (allowing the Yuan to rise 2 against the dollar) is that no one can tell when or what is going to happen next.

Have you not regarded that Allah drives the clouds, then He composes them, then He piles them up, whereat you see the rain issuing from its midst? And He sends down hail from the sky, out of the mountains that are in it, and He strikes with it whomever He wishes, and turns it away from whomever He wishes. The brilliance of its lightening almost takes away the sight.

But it appeared to me that all these years that I'd been working on exploitation exploitation by landlords, by moneylenders, by traders gave me an insight that probably I was also an exploiter, because there was no line in my income tax return which showed this income accrued because of the brilliance of the people those people who have shared their knowledge and good faith and trust with me and nothing ever went back to them.