Mediocrity Quotes - Page 17

• Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. The world doesn’t need any more gray. On the other hand, we can’t get enough color. Mediocrity is nobody’s goal and perfection shouldn’t be either. We’ll never be perfect. But remember these three P’s: Passion + Persistence = Possibility.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Passion, Persistence, Hands

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• All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity.

  Rahul Gandhi

  People, Justice, Political

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• Challenge is the opportunity for greatness. People do their best when there is an opportunity to change how things currently stand. Maintaining the status quo facilitates mediocrity. Those who embrace this practice do not wish to rest on their laurels. They motivate others to exceed their limits and look for innovative ways to improve the organization.

  James M. Kouzes

  Leadership, Opportunity, Greatness

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• Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses and become huge. Of course, all of you think that one describes you...hence the delusion necessary to push on.

  Marc Maron

  Thinking, Genius, May

  Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal”, p.204, Spiegel & Grau

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• 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.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Motivational, Sports, Creativity

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• But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content with being mediocre; they'll do everything in their power to prevent even the humblest of teachers and children from accomplishing anything extraordinary. For good work shines a light on the failures of the mediocre, and that is a light which terrifies those who conspire to keep our nation's children, like themselves, ordinary.

  Rafe Esquith

  Teacher, Children, Ignorance

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• At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe.

  Eric Chaisson

  Special, Groups, Inventory

  Eric Chaisson, Lola Judith Chaisson (2007). “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos”, p.90, Columbia University Press

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• Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse.

  Arthur Koestler

  Fear, Innovation, Intellectual

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• There is no greater path to mediocrity in life than trying to be realistic.

  Sean Plott

  Trying, Path, Realistic

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• Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.

  Andrew Keen

  Creating, Monkeys, Digital

  "The Cult of the Amateur". Book by Andrew Keen, June 5, 2007.

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• It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

  Joseph Cook

  Talent, Tact, Thrive

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• Crimes can be redeemed, but nothing saves you from mediocrity.

  Juan Villoro

  Crime, Redeemed

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

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Tired, Spiritual Leadership, Fatigue

  J. Oswald Sanders (2008). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.119, Moody Publishers

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• If a Christian is not willing to rise early and work late, to expend greater effort in diligent study and faithful work, that person will not change a generation. Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the result of never getting tired.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Tired

  J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.119, Moody Publishers

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• I am incapable of mediocrity.

  Serge Gainsbourg

  Pride, Incapable

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• To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Men, Hopeless

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.114, Courier Corporation

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• It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.

  Ramachandra Guha

  Democracy, Visionaries, Sometimes

  Ramachandra Guha (2011). “India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy”, Pan Macmillan

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• Mediocrity is a hand-rail.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Confidence, Hands, Rail

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• Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.

  Thomas Merton

  Selfish, Believe, Men

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• You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay.

  Van Morrison

  Faith, Inspiration, Fighting

  Song: Keep Mediocrity at Bay, Album: Magic Time, 2005

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• Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.

  Thomas Sowell

  Educational, School, Thinking

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• They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Doe, Limiting Beliefs

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Feb 26, 2017

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• You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets of the living God. Isaiah once spoke as follows, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee

  John H. Vandenberg

  Life, Time, Knowledge

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• Set stretch goals. Don't ever settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don't sell yourself short by thinking that you'll fail.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Thinking, Keys

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