Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable. — Harold Bloom 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
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
“To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!” — Israelmore Ayivor 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
But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Show me the person that calls another a fool, and I will prove the extent of his mediocrity. — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable… — John W. Gardner 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
We're constantly getting these messages to mind our own business and look the other way if we want to be well liked,… — Kelly Cutrone 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
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
“To be alone with myself in the space of silence is horrifying, for I know with the utmost certainty that in that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle… — charlie huston Copy Share Image
“What right have such men to represent Christianity—as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly?” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The ‘easy way’ is our laziness trying to find a solution by ‘working hard’ to side-step the problem.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Being realistic is the most common road traveled to mediocrity! Why would you be realistic? — Will Smith Copy Share Image
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Getting along and being satisfied with the status quo often contribute to mediocrity and lack of innovation.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes. — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
“[I]t is indisputably the mediocre, if not the low, both as regards morality and intelligence, who succeed in life and multiply the… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“All people are standing; you got to standout! All people are breaking grounds; you got to breakthrough grounds! Don't settle for less;… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
For every person seeking greatness, there are hundreds more charged with safeguarding mediocrity. If you want to be wealthy, stop taking financial… — Randy Gage Copy Share Image
“I need anything, anything that will stop me from living in the kind of death the bourgeois eat, the death called comfort.” — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it. — Rory Vaden Copy Share Image
A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Why settle for mediocre if there is even the slightest chance for something amazing? Because you can never settle if you keep… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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