How sad that we often diminish our best gifts by struggling valiantly to develop in someone else's area of ability. It is… — Dan Miller Copy Share Image
Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow… — Wendell Berry 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
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
That's probably one of my biggest gripes with the Internet - that it settles for mediocrity and disinformation, which puts all information… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit. — Austin Ligon Copy Share Image
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly. — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
In business, what distinguishes leaders from laggards and greatness from mediocrity is the ability to uniquely imagine what could be. — Robert Fritz Copy Share Image
Nietzsche should not be taken seriously as a political theorist, at least not at the level of his positive prescriptions. But the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been… — John Locke 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
Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
How often have we all come to that crucial point in a painting where it is practically 'begging' us to stop before… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
“Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Not being impressed by anyone or anything is one of the surest paths to a life of mediocrity.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment. — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea… — Eva Moskowitz Copy Share Image
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged. — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
