The way that I am now, I don't want to accept mediocrity. I don't want to accept the easy road. — Joe Nichols Copy Share Image
The mediocrity with which Africa has been ruled is responsible for its underdevelopment. — Raila Odinga Copy Share Image
They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU. — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
Do you know what keeps most people average? They complain about the noise when opportunity comes knocking. — Tsepiso Makhubedu Copy Share Image
There is a downside to affordable technology, and that's mediocrity. I mean, just 'cause you can afford it don't mean you can… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
“Could anything possibly be more humorous than believing in the depth or in the depravity of the Parisian character?” — Stendhal Copy Share Image
In any area of human endeavour, there is going to be mediocrity. You're going to find people who get money that they… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Acceptance and assimilation, you know, breeds mediocrity and perhaps an even more sheep-like conformism in terms of what kind of music you're… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
I think that Tupac was the trendsetter, the high mark. What we hope his music will continue to do is to at… — Afeni Shakur Copy Share Image
We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Because I have a dog, it's easier to work at home: I sit in a horrible weird 'Mastermind'-style chair and bask in… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
If we have given everything we can, you are not settling for mediocrity because the better team won. Sometimes you have to… — Alun Wyn Jones Copy Share Image
“What the mediocrity principle tells us is that our state is not the product of intent, that the universe lacks both malice… — John Brockman Copy Share Image
“Birds that cannot fly high into the sky rejoice exceedingly and sing sweet melodies when they get to the top of the… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“Doing something, and regularly, is by far the best way of increasing your chances of being good at it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity. — Graham Cooke Copy Share Image
“You will always feel insignificant if you never do anything to change the world or another person's life, other than your own.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“Without self -discipline, potentials are useless and mediocrity becomes the plague of life.” — CLEMENT OGEDEGBE Copy Share Image
“It's better to do something with quality, no matter how long it takes you rather than do something mediocre, with constant quantity.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“An important step in escaping mediocrity is to stop worrying about what other people think of you.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite… — William James Copy Share Image
“i was poised for greatness, but the poising game me a cramp so i have instead just settled for comfortable mediocrity... (Vimrod # 4904)” — Ralph Lazar Copy Share Image
Watch, listen and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale. — C. K. Prahalad Copy Share Image
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. — George Will Copy Share Image
One of Pixar's key mechanisms is the Braintrust, which we rely on to push us toward excellence and to root out mediocrity.… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“In the race of life I would rather to be around the best and sink than to be around mediocrity and swim.” — Xela Ffonrims Copy Share Image
“I trust that you are aware that today’s success is tomorrow’s mediocrity. This means anything appealing today will be appalling tomorrow.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The moment you choose to settle for less, is the moment you're choosing to hand over your opportunity of what you really… — London Mond Copy Share Image
The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as… — William Hurt Copy Share Image
“It isn’t the high price of stars that is expensive; it’s the high price of mediocrity.” — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
Mediocrity was the dominating element of big conglomerates and, in the new digital age, digitalization goes exactly after mediocrity. — Joe Kaeser Copy Share Image
