In business, what distinguishes leaders from laggards and greatness from mediocrity is the ability to uniquely imagine what could be. — Robert Fritz Copy Share Image
Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity. — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
“We force-fit our tiny rubrics over this immense existence of ours until we’ve confused the box we’ve created for the existence we… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles. — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
“The goal of comfort is at the self-same time the abandonment of great accomplishments.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Ultimately, everyone has to ask himself or herself how they're going to fail. We all do, you know, so let's get that… — Keith Ferrazzi Copy Share Image
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
... the major rule in the American belief system - that anyone can do anything ... is a lie that we have… — M. J. Ryan Copy Share Image
An achievement-oriented culture is very pro-employee - it's so much more fun than one that isn't. Excellence is a tremendous amount of… — Kip Tindell Copy Share Image
When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity. — Carlos Slim Copy Share Image
A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“When we are honest about the limitations we are self imposing it becomes necessary to cry out with determination and state you’ve… — Heidi Reagan Copy Share Image
“These are the words of a fool: I am happy to be a fool, for i won't spend my time gazing at… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I wake up every morning thinking...this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There's no time for mediocrity. This… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to be like the other guy, to be ordinary. Mediocrity takes a great deal of energy. But to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is. — James Robertson Copy Share Image
“They took a ridiculous lack of features, an almost insulting lack of features, and sold that as a benefit – with extraordinary success” — Jonathan Siegel Copy Share Image
We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things. — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
“The dividing line between those who will be great and those who will be mediocre is the amount of time each person… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity — Keith Ferrazzi Copy Share Image
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making. — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' roll, for me, is another award for underachievers. It is nothing but a testament to mediocrity. — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
“To become a better you, admit that you were not born for the floor. Refuse to embrace mediocrity anytime anywhere.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
