Quotes about Brainy

“You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.”

“To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.”

“Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.”

“Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.”

“The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.”

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

“Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.”

“Nothing endures but personal qualities.”

“At times I think and at times I am.”

“I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.”

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

“An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be.”

“We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.”

“Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.”

“It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.”

“It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.”

“Fortune favors the prepared mind.”

“The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.”

“I'm 27. I feel like I get it. I'm OK with being sexy if I feel like it. Some days I'm brainy, some days I'm funny, some days I'm sexy, and sometimes, I just want to dance.”

“I shut my eyes in order to see.”

“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”