Do you know what keeps most people average? They complain about the noise when opportunity comes knocking. — Tsepiso Makhubedu Copy Share Image
I've relaxed my feelings about other companies performing my works. I have never in principle been against my ballets being danced by… — Martha Graham 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
“When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian… — Haruki Murakami 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
Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
“Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
In the Future, Greatness will be lost in the vast sea of mediocrity. — Liam E Turner 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
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
So many people live lives of silent mediocrity, convinced that what really matters to them is out of their reach. So they… — Jen Sincero Copy Share Image
It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd — Robin Crow Copy Share Image
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools'… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“If you are working in a team, do not expect an outcome of your excellence. It will be an average of all… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary… — Louise Bogan 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
The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it. — George Lois Copy Share Image
