Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When mediocrity becomes the accepted norm, excellence dies a painful death. — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
A Christian has no business being satisfied with mediocrity. He's supposed to reach for the stars. Why not? He's not on his… — Catherine Marshall Copy Share Image
In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
“Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“We're all teased or pressured into conforming to the all-levelling social norms of mediocrity.” — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity. — Rahul Gandhi Copy Share Image
When I imagine God creating each one of us and planting a purpose deep in our hearts, I never imagine that purpose… — Katie Davis Copy Share Image
Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique. — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Nietzsche should not be taken seriously as a political theorist, at least not at the level of his positive prescriptions. But the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
If you think you’re average, then you’ll be average. If you think you’re ordinary, then you’ll live ordinary. The truth is, there… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Beauty he loved for its own sake; ugliness, which more often than not was a form of inverted beauty, fascinated him. Life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“There exist words of mediocrity, songs of mediocrity, and life lessons of mediocrity. Advice of mediocrity, books of mediocrity and companions of… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
