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“In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary mediocrity into bright and shining excellence.”

Kind Opportunity Effort Ordinary Embrace Shining Excellence Extras Endeavor Mediocrity Extra Effort

Author:Ralph Marston

“We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth.”

Stills Two Soul Support Mankind Stupid Genius Ordinary Filled Extremes Dull Mediocrity Fewer Multitudes Sublime Transcendent Ornaments Intervals Commonwealth Generalities Two Extremes

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he calls 'magnetic,' and does not value, because he sees no need for, originality or profundity, a fine culture or a wide knowledge.”

Needs Doe Values Culture Objects Fine Ordinary Wide Likes Candidates Voters Mediocrity Sensible Originality Vigorous Magnetic Profundity American Voters

Book:The American Commonwealth: Vol. 1: The National Government

Source: The American Commonwealth: Vol. 1: The National Government

“Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.”

Found Study Teacher Teaching Lessons Ordinary Originals Management Excellence Profound Insight Retirement Mediocrity Exemplary

Book:Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

Source: Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

“Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, useful, progressive, colorful, and rich.”

Ifs Giving Choices Wish Common Rich Ordinary Clean Dull Progressive Mediocrity Wish You Colorful Colorless

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.”

Opinion Ordinary Brilliant Aliens Crush Mediocrity Trapped Humdrum

Author:Russell Brand