It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected. — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment. — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position. — John Loeffler Copy Share Image
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved. — Seth Copy Share Image
The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I got a feeling that after six years of disappointment, of mediocrity and decline, a slow course correction is not what voters… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They filled us full of false illusions and promiscuity, and they led us down that class-less road of mediocrity. — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity. — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Finding security in mediocrity is an exhausting process. You can work only so many hours, fret only so much. Being a slightly… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
People rise and fall to meet your level of expectations for them. If you express skepticism and doubt in others, they will… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“I spend my day in one of three fundamental positions: sitting down, laying down or standing up. And if I’m at all… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Everyone loves a prodigy [...]. Prodigies get us off the hook for living ordinary lives. We can tell ourselves we're not special… — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
“What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity;… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity… — Jackie Cooper Copy Share Image
Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
“It’s not a crime to wish for other worlds. You’ll get taxed for it but they can’t throw you in jail for… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I constantly get out of my comfort zone. Looking cool is the easiest way to mediocrity. The coolest guy in my high… — Terry Crews Copy Share Image
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If it wasn't for this person's privacy, I'd be able to talk pretty freely about this subject on a personal level. The… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
I feel connected to every other creative element because I have a creative soul. My isolation is not through the work it's… — Lisa Gerrard Copy Share Image
If I had to give you one piece of advice it would be this: Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image