“Until you press the switch button of the light in your room on, you shall always have light in your room and… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah 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
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's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity. — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
If you recall when [John] Kennedy passed an edict, 'Every person you hire in the Post Office must be African American,' the… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers. — Franz Grillparzer 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
I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed. — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
“Brockhurst, the champion of individualism, was soon launched on his favorite topic. "The great fault of the American nation, which is the… — Owen Johnson Copy Share Image
Artists and creative workers - people who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Doing something, and regularly, is by far the best way of increasing your chances of being good at it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We must acknowledge that we made a huge error in satisfying the lowest common denominator of the available human potential in Nigeria… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
The majority of people have successfully alienated themselves from change; they tediously arrange their lives into a familiar pattern, they give themselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image