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
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
The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency. — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
You have to believe that you are the one who creates your success, that you are the one who creates your mediocrity,… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
When I imagine God creating each one of us and planting a purpose deep in our hearts, I never imagine that purpose… — Katie Davis Copy Share Image
What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It drives me crazy how quickly the great ones get canonized. 'Blah-blah-blah is such a terrible loss.' Does that mean that the… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
The #2 cause of mediocrity and unfulfilled potential is that 'most people' never dedicate time each day to learning, growing, and developing… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
“Beauty he loved for its own sake; ugliness, which more often than not was a form of inverted beauty, fascinated him. Life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
We offer them mediocrity while calling it magic. We offer them the illusion of intelligent software, seducing them into surrendering the task… — Larry Constantine Copy Share Image
When we are placed in a set of circumstances where we have to take initiative and be creative, some of us find… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
My biggest concern is that America is drifting towards mediocrity and that people don't recognize - and by people I'm meaning Washington… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
“And I — my head oppressed by horror — said: "Master, what is it that I hear? Who are those people so… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
“Mediocrity doesn’t always mean underperforming—it’s a sliding scale and a state of mind. It means settling in and succumbing to stasis. Mediocrity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Oh maturity's a wrapped up package deal so it seems And ditching teenage fantasy means ditching all your dreams All your friends… — Frank Turner Copy Share Image
Your entire life begins to change the day that you decide you will no longer accept mediocrity for yourself. When you decide… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers. — Horace Copy Share Image
“We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
If Excellence is on your radar, disable mediocrity. Let your BEST be your best. — Patrice Register Copy Share Image
Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity. — Indro Montanelli Copy Share Image
Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure… — Michael J. Gelb Copy Share Image
“Had you been able to guess bits of my destiny, Perhaps you would bear your mediocrity with more ease.” — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity. — William Hurt Copy Share Image
The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
