I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity. — Maximillian Degenerez Copy Share Image
It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd — Robin Crow Copy Share Image
Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable. — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
“When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“When a person puts on a show, trying to appear great, their mediocrity is soon exposed.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
I just wanted friends. I just wanted people to like me. I just wanted for things to be simple and good. So,… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
“You were born for more than just living in mediocrity and dying after your time here evaporates.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity,… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted… — Rod Blagojevich Copy Share Image
There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Understand that the enemy always fights the hardest when he knows you are closest to your breakthrough. He'd leave you alone if… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“God doesn't call us to mediocrity. He calls us to a greater standard that doesn't teach us to tear people down to… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Anthony and I are putting together a company where we won't lose our jobs based on quarterly earnings and can afford to… — Joe Russo Copy Share Image
In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
“The abyss in which I live hasn't the wit to save itself from savage ignorance, and I now feel assured that I… — Morrissey Copy Share Image
“...simply moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ... If the… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“Parents and schools are teaching children how not to think, but how to be good little groupthinkers and people of faith, how… — David Sinclair Copy Share Image
Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
“Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it. — Graham Cooke Copy Share Image
