In the age of mediocrity and clones, John Stowell's uniqueness and originality are a breath of fresh air. I love playing with… — Paul Horn Copy Share Image
“Until you press the switch button of the light in your room on, you shall always have light in your room and… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah 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
“It isn’t the high price of stars that is expensive; it’s the high price of mediocrity.” — Bill Veeck 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
Today we've learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists. — Lionel Richie Copy Share Image
Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The moment you choose to settle for less, is the moment you're choosing to hand over your opportunity of what you really… — London Mond Copy Share Image
Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed… — Samuel Johnson 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
In the first manifesto that we launched on the 8th of March, 1910, from the stage of the Chiarella Theater in Turin,1… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
Push yourself to do more and to experience more. Harness your energy to start expanding your dreams. Yes, expand your dreams. Don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As good as' always spells mediocrity. But when a writer's work is in competition with all those thousands of other manuscripts that… — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Where you are now is as a result of either your choice or someone’s choice. If you neglect the ideas of choosing… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“I trust that you are aware that today’s success is tomorrow’s mediocrity. This means anything appealing today will be appalling tomorrow.” — Israelmore Ayivor 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
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
The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly. — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
It was the supreme expressionof the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position. — Leon Trotsky (1879_1940 Copy Share Image
Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I am a proud, gay person of color and I will not be intimidated into mediocrity or legislated into conformity! — Eugene Lee Yang Copy Share Image
The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity. — Allan Sloan Copy Share Image
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity ...and you've… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
An achievement-oriented culture is very pro-employee - it's so much more fun than one that isn't. Excellence is a tremendous amount of… — Kip Tindell Copy Share Image
When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles. — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
“The goal of comfort is at the self-same time the abandonment of great accomplishments.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
