Mediocrity Quotes - Page 13

• If you have to fear something, fear mediocrity.

  Alex Bogusky

  Ifs

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• In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position.

  John Loeffler

  Age, Position, Extremist

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• Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.

  Brian Tracy

  Blessing, Opportunity, Greatness

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• The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

  Napoleon Hill

  School, Forever, Matter

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.72, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost, merely converted from one form to another. Here, I took butter and cream and meat and eggs and I made delicious sustenance.

  Julie Powell

  Fighting, Eggs, Atoms

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• Nothing is more expensive than mediocrity.

  J. Irwin Miller

  Expensive

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• This generation, our generation of people who benefited, must always be the pioneers who look to younger people and say mediocrity is not accommodated in what we do.

  Trevor Manuel

  Our Generation, People, This Generation

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• The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people.

  Colin Powell

  Successful, Thinking, People

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• In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Greatness, Risk, Strive

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• Your woman knows your weaknesses better than anybody. She knows where you will falter and give up. She knows the degree of mediocrity you will settle for. And, she knows your true capacity as a full man, a man of free consciousness and love. Her gift, if she is a good woman, is to test you with her darkest moods, over and over and over, until your consciousness is unperturbed by feminine challenge, and you are able to pervade her with your love, just as you are here to pervade the world. In response to your fearless consciousness, she will drench your world in love and light.

  David Deida

  Giving Up, Men, Light

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.237, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.

  C. K. Prahalad

  Business, Goal, Host

  "Strategy as Stretch and Leverage" by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, hbr.org. March/April 1993.

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• Defending mediocrity is exhausting.

  Seth Godin

  Exhausting

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.32, Penguin

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• No one will ever follow you down the street if you're carrying a banner that says, "Onward toward mediocrity."

  Martin de Maat

  Banner, Streets, Ifs

  "A Conversation with Martin de Maat". The Monthly Aspectarian, August 1998.

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• They filled us full of false illusions and promiscuity, and they led us down that class-less road of mediocrity.

  Ray Davies

  Sex, Class, Illusion

  Song: Did Ya

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• Mediocrity is underrated.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Underrated

  "Mary-Louise Parker: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2010.

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• Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

  Criss Jami

  People, Creative, Intimidation

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.122, Criss Jami

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• The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily.

  Eddie McGuire

  Culture, Defeat, Accepting

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• I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

  Dick Cavett

  Thinking, Age

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• We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Psychology, Jargon, Praise

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• Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Independence, Intolerance, Props

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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• Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and consuming enough to take a place in the center of my life into which was creeping a horrible feeling of stasis and the doom of mediocrity.

  Julie Powell

  Food, Challenges, Cooking

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• When you value your integrity at the highest level, living alignment with your word and following through with your commitments no matter what, there are no limits to what you can create for your life. However, when you make excuses, justify doing what easiest, and choose the path of least resistance, you will live a life of mediocrity, frustration and regret. Live with integrity as if your life depended on it, because it does.

  Hal Elrod

  Regret, Integrity, Commitment

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• Your entire life begins to change the day that you decide you will no longer accept mediocrity for yourself. When you decide that TODAY is the most important day of your life, and that NOW matters more than any other time, because it is who you're becoming in every moment, based on the choices you're making and the actions you're taking, that is determining who and where you are going to be for the rest of your life.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, Choices, Important

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jul 05, 2013

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• Why is it that when a baby is born, we often refer to him or her as 'the miracle of life' but then we accept mediocrity for our own lives? Where along the way did we lose sight of the miracle that WE are?

  Hal Elrod

  Baby, Thinking, Sight

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Aug 19, 2011

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• The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Feelings, Lovers, Paradox

  Soren Kierkegaard (2017). “Philosophical Fragments”, p.24, Jovian Press

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