If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Yes, I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him. Some appear to have it more than others only because… — Glenn Clark Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s an issue of being unable or unwilling to realize that we can actually impact things sufficiently to change things, rather… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by… — Stanley Morison Copy Share Image
But if it's tolerable mediocrity, and you're like, 'Well, you know it could be worse. At least I'm getting paid.' Then you… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
You have to connect with your market and your employees. First, understand that what your market says is fact and what you… — Jon Taffer Copy Share Image
At independence Kenya's economic indicators were equal to those of South Korea, but 45 years down the road, Korea's economy is 40… — Raila Odinga 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
Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder… — Ambrose Bierce 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
When Americans decry our politicians, we must remember that ultimately, politicians reflect us. When we demand more than mediocrity - and the… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and… — Julie Powell 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… — Eric Thomas 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
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done at Apple… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
This Western culture of ours tends to sacrifice the full range of experience to a lower common denominator that's acceptable to more… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
“As good as' always spells mediocrity. But when a writer's work is in competition with all those thousands of other manuscripts that… — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
In the first manifesto that we launched on the 8th of March, 1910, from the stage of the Chiarella Theater in Turin,1… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns… — Eric Chaisson Copy Share Image
Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
We don't want to think about our weaknesses. We don't want to talk about them, and we certainly don't want anyone else… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
If a Christian is not willing to rise early and work late, to expend greater effort in diligent study and faithful work,… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most… — Nnamdi Azikiwe Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun… — Hunter S. Thompson 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
There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“I made a big mistake, and I didn’t use it to make my life better. I used it to be okay with… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
“Retaliation retards your excellence. Nelson Mandela would not have been named as a great man if not for his courage to forgive… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“The characteristic note of our time is the dire truth that, the mediocre soul, the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be mediocre,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse.… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
The mediocrity principle simply states that you aren't special. The universe does not revolve around you; this planet isn't privileged in any… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
It is not that we had any unfair knowledge that other people didn't have, it is just that we did our homework.… — Paul Tudor Jones Copy Share Image
A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school… — Dan Gelber Copy Share Image
