“What right have such men to represent Christianity—as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly?” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Risk is more than is required. Learn more than is normal. Be strong. Show courage. Breathe. Excel. Love. Lead. Speak your truth.… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity -… — Hank Ketcham Copy Share Image
“There exist words of mediocrity, songs of mediocrity, and life lessons of mediocrity. Advice of mediocrity, books of mediocrity and companions of… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“It's because I haven't courage,' said Samuel. 'I could never quite take the responsibility. When the Lord God did not call my… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In the race of life I would rather to be around the best and sink than to be around mediocrity and swim.” — Xela Ffonrims Copy Share Image
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes. — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
It is unethical not to know. It is unethical not to think. It is unethical not to love. It is unethical not… — Yasuhiko Kimura 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
Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
Don't be intimidated by other peoples opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want… — 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's better to do something with quality, no matter how long it takes you rather than do something mediocre, with constant quantity.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
“As a Wrong Planet person you may at times appear to be unsociable. You’re often dispassionate when it comes to the activities… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any problem with technology. Actually rewind that thought - there is a downside to affordable technology, and that's… — Don Letts Copy Share Image
Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from… — John Dewey 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
You can’t talk mediocrity and expect to have victory. You are prophesying your future. If you want a shift to occur, you’ve… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van… — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
I think Nigerians got it wrong from independence as people became so conscious of the divisions because we wanted so much to… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
