Seth Godin Quotes
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Isaac D'Israeli -
Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.
Adam Cohen -
I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting.
Anderson Cooper -
Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.
C. K. Prahalad -
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
Benjamin Cardozo -
Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people.
Napoleon Hill
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It feels so exhausting to be so bad at something I loved so much.
Chuck Klosterman -
When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.
C. S. Lewis -
Nothing is quite as satisfying and exhausting as teaching.
Joe Sacco -
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Norman Vincent Peale -
To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
William Hurt -
Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
Blaise Pascal -
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
William Blake -
A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his mediocrity prevents him from being a threat to others. And for this reason a democracy is never governed by the most competent, but rather by those whose insignificance will not jeopardize anyone else's self-esteem.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.
Hermann Hesse
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The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.
Charles de Foucauld -
There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.
Walter Kirn -
If you desire ease, forsake learning.
Nagarjuna -
We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer.
Jimmy Buffett -
It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.
Edmond H. Fischer -
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
Seth Godin