Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should… — Bruce Henderson Copy Share Image
It would be a healthy exercise for every politician to look in the mirror every morning and remind himself that he holds… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Why is it that when a baby is born, we often refer to him or her as 'the miracle of life' but… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
I've known people who thought that reaching their potential would come from shoring up their weaknesses. But do you know what happens… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
A plate of food hits the table, lands right in front of you. One of two things happens. Either you sit up… — Jon Taffer Copy Share Image
“Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of… — Buck Rodgers Copy Share Image
You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We humans can get used to anything. It really is remarkable. The problem is that we often use this glorious ability of… — Jen Sincero Copy Share Image
“As long as you allow mediocrity to be the height of your enthusiasm, as long as you allow it to be the… — C. Sean McGee Copy Share Image
“There is an admirable fact about the psychology of France: she knows no half measures, loathsome or sublime, she forges the thought… — Josephin Peladan Copy Share Image
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
That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
I cannot live in mediocrity, content with merely knowing that there is more of God to experience and explore -and then do… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Eventually, you get tired of seeing mediocre talent succeed, so you work as hard as they do.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
You can’t think thoughts of mediocrity and expect to excel. The two don’t go together. — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure. — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity. — William Blake Copy Share Image
I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble. — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
