Quotes About Mediocrity

Ljudi ne provedu život u osrednjosti zato što su prose?ni. Oni se tako ponašaju jer su zaboravili ko su zaista. Prihvatili su mišljenje drugih ljudi i sebe su po?eli da doživljavaju kao 'prose?ne' i 'obi?ne'.

Consiste en resistir a la tiranía de lo ordinario, en impedir que la negatividad se apropie de vuestra capacidad de asombro y en evitar que cualquier forma de esclavitud de la mediocridad infeste vuestras vidas.

With a second-string cabinet of Wolcott, Pickering, and McHenry, Washington had purged it of apostasy but had also exchanged creative ferment for mediocrity; the numerous rejections had given him little choice.

Creativity is fragile; if you don't nurture it, it can die, leaving you recycling old ideas and pretending they're fresh. It's a sure road to mediocrity.

A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired.

Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a loser in life.

We rarely hear warnings about playing it safe. We don't see headlines that say, ... Man retires after a mediocre career and feels painful remorse for never having laid anything on the line.

This is the strategy paradox. The main cause of strategic failure, Raynor argues, is not bad strategy, but great strategy that just happens to be wrong. Bad strategy is characterized by lack of vision, muddled leadership, and inept execution—not the stuff of success for sure, but more likely to lead to persistent mediocrity than colossal failure.

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

A middling talent makes for a more serene life.

Mediocrity always attacks excellence.

Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.

Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

The new music is] building off something that wasn't very good in the first place. Back before the singer/songwriter, a very competent musician did the music, and a very competent lyricist did the words. But everybody does both now, so you've got a lot of mediocrity.

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

I didn't say any of this to my sister. How I saw her being broken into mediocrity and motherhood; her body broken and then her mind - or did her mind go first, it's sort of hard to disentangle - and then for her to turn around and say Broken is Best, I didn't say how that made me furious beyond measure.

A steady salary is an invitation to mediocrity.

It's easy to deprecate some of the puffery and jingoism that often go with affirmations of 'American greatness.' It's also easy to confuse greatness with perfection, as if evidence of our shortcomings is proof of our mediocrity.