There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a… — Victor Hugo 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
“my academic career was indifferent to the point of beauty- I was so unremarkable, in every way, that the unvarying precision of… — Mil Millington Copy Share Image
Mediocrity was the dominating element of big conglomerates and, in the new digital age, digitalization goes exactly after mediocrity. — Joe Kaeser Copy Share Image
I have a problem with honoring mediocrity in so many cases over teams that have great years. — Dick Vitale Copy Share Image
There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
“Birds that cannot fly high into the sky rejoice exceedingly and sing sweet melodies when they get to the top of the… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us. — Isaac D'Israeli 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
Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
When you value your integrity at the highest level, living alignment with your word and following through with your commitments no matter… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“He knows how to market himself well. Nowadays, that's all that seems to count. He's rebellious in a way that appeals to… — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
