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I am incapable of mediocrity.

Serge Gainsbourg

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• We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Remember
  • Revolution
  • Right

• Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Good
  • Evil

• It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Way
  • Never
  • Humanity

• We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • House
  • Bigs
  • Feet

• A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.

  

  E. B. White
  • Power
  • Single

• Value everyone you know they might be gone tomorrow

  

  Russell Llantino
  • Value
  • Values
  • Tomorrow

• Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Advice

• It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Meaningless
  • Followers
  • Ceased

• It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and it is even rarer that the specifically political qualifications survive the petty maneuvers of party politics with its demands for plain salesmanship.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Qualifications
  • Salesmanship
  • Political Talents

• The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • Sense
  • Expect
  • Least

• Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain living chatty familiarity. And not only does each book inspire the sense that it belongs to its readers, but it also suggests the name of others, and one begets the desire of the other.

  

  Petrarch
  • Book
  • Sense
  • Inspire

• Never give your sweetie all your heart, what heart will you have left in the end, and what would you do?

  

  Billy Howerdel Ashes Divide
  • Heart
  • Sweetie

• He didn't look too good so we chose to err on the side of caution.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Good
  • Chose
  • Caution

• It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Track

• Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Fear
  • Pain
  • Craving

• Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Giving
  • Eye
  • Crafts

• Habit 7 is taking the time to sharpen the saw. By renewing the four dimensions of your nature - physical, spiritual, mental and social/emotional, you can work more quickly and effortlessly. To do this, we must be proactive. This is a Quadrant II (important, not urgent) activity that must be acted on. It's at the center of our Circle of Influence, so we must do it for ourselves.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Important
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • History
  • Mediocrity
  • Masterwork

• Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Best
  • Alive
  • Field

• I am incapable of mediocrity.

  

  Serge Gainsbourg
  • Mediocrity