To do science today is to experience a dimension unique in contemporary working lives; the work promises something incomparable: the sense of… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity. — Rahul Gandhi 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
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
“Generally places that are comfortable with excellence don’t call themselves centers of excellence. Has anyone heard of a Princeton University Center of… — Otis Webb Brawley 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
The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as… — William Hurt Copy Share Image
The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things. — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It's true he was a sinner. But don't pass so final a judgement. Have pity in your heart and don't forget that… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice. — Rutherford B. Hayes 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
As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Good leaders always bring about transformation... Bad leaders only maintain and preserve long standing mediocrity!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr 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
