Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

Ayn Rand

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

Brandon Lee

For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

Courtney Love

I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.

Claude Monet

Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.

David Foster Wallace

Mediocrity is contextual.

Debbi Fields

Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been.

Andy Stanley

Will I allow my fear to bind me to mediocrity?

Amelia Barr

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

William Cowper

Manner is all in all whatever is writ, the substitute for genius sense and wit

Bill Cosby

YOU are a genius!... and I am a genius because I married you.

Berkeley Breathed

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

Arnold Schoenberg

There are no more geniuses, only critics.

Bertrand Russell

The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.

Bill Belichick

I think, for the most part, you're looking at players who are in roles, or situations, as probably being the swing guys on those numbers. I don't know if the geniuses referred to that or not. Probably not,

John Beckman

He is the very spirit of inventive genius that this museum looks to inspire people with.

Minna Antrim

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius

Matthew Arnold

It always seems to me that the right sphere for Shelley's genius was the sphere of music, not of poetry.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Price is not a consideration when a personal relationship exists.

Gottfried Leibniz

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

John Wooden

Consideration for others brings many things.

Judith Martin

Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.

Suzanne Collins

Thank you for you consideration

William Gilmore Simms

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

Sai Baba

Whatever creature comes to you, human or otherwise, treat it with consideration.