“The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.” LooksKidsLife IsInspiringAttitudeKeysMarriedWherever You Are Author:Candace Bushnell
“Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as in the old Western movies - the ruffian outlaw band shooting up main street and the little white church with the little white schoolteacher wringing her hands. To cool violence you need rhythm, humor, tempering; you need dance and rhetoric. Not therapeutic understanding.” NeedsLittlesFactsHandsTogetherUnderstandingChurchWhiteAnswersViolenceStreetsBandWesternViolentRhythmShootingMediocrityInvitesRhetoricMediocreTherapeuticOutlawMain StreetWestern MovieRuffianShooting Up Author:James Hillman
“The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The danger of the two-talent man is that he will be content with mediocrity.” MenWorldTwoVirtueTalentDangerThis WorldSweetAverageMediocrityFaithfulnessSteadfastAverage Man Author:Walter Russell Bowie
“Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium” HelpingIntelligenceMediocrityMediocreMaximumDiligence Author:Seneca the Younger
“The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics, our standards start to sag. The muscle gets soft, and instead of excellence we have to settle for mediocrity. Maybe something even worse.” WayHigherExerciseStandardsEthicsExcellenceSettlingMusclesMediocrityStretchingRegular Exercise Author:Price Pritchett
“For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be distributed at an almost sub-atomic level. Otherwise, you fall into the kind of preachy, moralistic fable that I don't think makes for good literature.” ThinkingKindArtFallLiteratureLevelsSubtleSophisticatedFablesRebukeGood Literature Author:Junot Diaz
“Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.” InspirationalShowsFailureMediocrityShow MeDestinedOvercoming Failure Author:Johnnetta B. Cole
“The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.” DemocracyAll ThingsTendenciesMediocrity Author:James F. Cooper
“Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.” InspirationalDignityPreservesMediocrityAloofness Author:Charles G. Dawes
“Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.” PeopleIfsThinkingIdeasHumorSettlingSurroundMediocrityThinking Clearly Author:Hank Ketcham