Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In the faculty of failure, mediocrity is never an optional course!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“[I]t is indisputably the mediocre, if not the low, both as regards morality and intelligence, who succeed in life and multiply the… — Alfred Russel Wallace 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
“All people are standing; you got to standout! All people are breaking grounds; you got to breakthrough grounds! Don't settle for less;… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Being realistic is the most common road traveled to mediocrity! Why would you be realistic? — Will Smith Copy Share Image
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes. — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
Let us learn to accept ourselves-accept the truth that we are capable in some directions and limited in others, that genius is… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
“The sub-conscious mind is so powerful in such a way that even if you empty your mind of all its components, there… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The… — Walter Russell Bowie Copy Share Image
“Comparing ourselves instead of taking lessons from ourselves is not only a catalyst to diminishing our true purpose but also a great… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think there is a disrespect for the mind that Trump, for example, exemplifies. His is a kind of strategic thinking that's… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
“However, Nick acted as much as possible under the circumstances, and that was rectifying — it brought with it enjoyment and a… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the stateof… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“There shall always be that voice that will tell you how you are wasting your time and ability, how you shall fail,… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“Art playing on its own disappearance and the disappearance of its object was still an art of great works. But art playing… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear.… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
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