mediocrity

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.

Leaders do not conform; they reform. If you conform, you are nurturing mediocrity. If you reform, you are breeding change.

Leaders don__ fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn__ their desire to maintain but to improve.

If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.

Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul__ possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level

I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature is born selfish, abusive, vile. Just look around you and see. Society cynical and ferocious, the humble heckled and pillaged by the rich traffickers in necessities. Everywhere the triumph of the mediocre and unscrupulous, everywhere the apotheosis of crooked politics and finance. And you think you can make any progress against a stream like that? No, man has never changed. His soul was corrupt in the days of Genesis and is not less rotten at present. Only the form of his sins varies. Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.

Not being impressed by anyone or anything is one of the surest paths to a life of mediocrity.

Individual talent is an obstruction principally among teams that employ the facade of a synergy to diminish the majorities mediocrity.

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.

Sadly, I put my dreams to bed long before they ever had the chance to get tired.

When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail to see even the smallest of things.

Step out of the crowd of average people. Enter that game and change the values on the scoreboard.

If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business.

Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence.

Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.

I might define a __ourney_ as something that life itself calls me to. And I might then define a __rip_ as something I create to avoid a journey by mimicking a journey. And while fear is most certainly part and parcel of both, the latter is emboldened by fear while the former surrenders to it.