Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I was like the runner-up to Miss Mediocrity and my prize was awkward silence.” — Rae Mariz Copy Share Image
“You will not experience all life has to offer you or begin to experience life at its fullest as long as you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further. — Bruce Barnbaum Copy Share Image
I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint. — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
“If you are not angry with your average performance, you can't effect a change! You must get upset to grab the energy… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity. — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
Man's proper stature is not one of mediocrity, failure, frustration, or defeat, but one of achievement, strength, and nobility. In short, man… — Mike Mentzer Copy Share Image
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you are going to be courageous, an example for all those who are ready to step into their power, then you… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius inan essentially common personis detestable. It spoils the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
Would it be preferable to argue for a fairer system whereby the unremarkable should be considered leadership material? With such an attitude,… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The… — Walter Russell Bowie Copy Share Image
Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
“I have always tried for quality in everything I do. I don't have a problem with that; I have a problem with… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
My advice for aspiring writers is threefold.First, read as much as possible, both within and outside the genre you arem working in.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
When you value your integrity at the highest level, living alignment with your word and following through with your commitments no matter… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we… — Alain de Botton 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
...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
In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity. — Indro Montanelli Copy Share Image
Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
