You can’t think thoughts of mediocrity and expect to excel. The two don’t go together. — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure. — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected. — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity,… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
I just wanted friends. I just wanted people to like me. I just wanted for things to be simple and good. So,… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
“You were born for more than just living in mediocrity and dying after your time here evaporates.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can… — Lisa Gerrard Copy Share Image
Society celebrates mediocrity so much that it does not take much to set yourself above the rest. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“If you believed in the “mediocrity of the masses,” as he put it, then mediocrity became the ceiling on what you could… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure. — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Understand that the enemy always fights the hardest when he knows you are closest to your breakthrough. He'd leave you alone if… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Rich men are neither better nor worse than all other humans. They contribute to greatness or mediocrity, strength of character or weakness… — Julius Rosenwald Copy Share Image
We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative… — Newton N. Minow Copy Share Image
The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Do what's right. Be on time, be polite, and be honest; remain free from drugs; and if you have any questions, get… — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
“Everyone loves a prodigy [...]. Prodigies get us off the hook for living ordinary lives. We can tell ourselves we're not special… — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
“What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If it wasn't for this person's privacy, I'd be able to talk pretty freely about this subject on a personal level. The… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
I feel connected to every other creative element because I have a creative soul. My isolation is not through the work it's… — Lisa Gerrard Copy Share Image
“...simply moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The abyss in which I live hasn't the wit to save itself from savage ignorance, and I now feel assured that I… — Morrissey Copy Share Image
If I had to give you one piece of advice it would be this: Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think art must be tough! I think art has to be hard. I don't think it should be easy. I think… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons. To be a coach is not just to teach these lessons but… — Martin Dugard Copy Share Image