Mediocrity And Complacency Quotes

#1. Florida wants to change the state's motto to attract younger people. They're thinking about: More than just a great place to die.

Joan Rivers

#2. Work is a form of love. We cannot be fully human without creating value.

John Ortberg

#3. Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort is not all that comfortable, even if they see clearly want for something better.

Donald Miller

#4. The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.

Thornton Wilder

#5. Before Twitter or Facebook, all the fandom that I knew about was anecdotal.

Rob Thomas

#6. It is far too easy to discover complacency in mediocrity. Success is rooted in extreme ambition, implanted by divine guidance, and is achieved long before others are able to see it. Surprise them all, but you know this ... you are already there.

Carl Henegan

#7. He had not even the self-complacency that enables stupid people to accept their mediocrity with unction; he had on the contrary an engaging modesty.

W. Somerset Maugham

#8. Oh, how wonderful and rich and
strange life can be when you stop playing out the roles that your parents and their friends wrote out
for you.

John Cheever

#9. Mediocrity is a pit that swallows people who have rested on seats of complacency for long.

Israelmore Ayivor

#10. Idleness and complacency lead to mediocrity.

Kim Holden

#11. Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.

Patrick Chappatte

#12. Thhe essence of documentary filmmaking is how you manipulate the material to create an emotional impact, as opposed to just delivering information.

Richard Ray Perez

#13. Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.

Don Meyer

#14. We all play God every day. When a woman buys a new pair of expensive shoes, she could have spent that same money feeding someone who was starving. In a sense, those shoes mean more to her than a life. We all kill to make our lives more comfortable. We don't put it in those terms. But we do.

Harlan Coben

#15. You need to learn to write on demand, and to get critiqued without flinching. When someone can rip your work to shreds without it feeling as though your arm has been hacked off, you're ready to send your novel off to an agent.

Jodi Picoult

#16. Whatever it is you ask for in prayer, believing you have received it, it shall be yours.

Jesus

#17. There was something out there.
And it was getting us.

A.B. Shepherd

#18. Recess and lunch are the best.

Ty Simpkins

#19. Excuses; the great chains that entangle purposeful life to the pillar of unpurposeful living

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#20. when you do great things, think as if you missed the mark by an inch; walk as if you are yet to face the greatest task; talk as if you are yet to have the best preparation for the momentous moment and dream as if you are fighting a battalion of tasks

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#21. Normal people couldn't be allowed to know how weird the world actually was.

Gavin G. Smith

#22. A step towards complacency is a step towards mediocrity;
a step towards diligence is a step towards brilliance.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#23. We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.

Caryll Houselander

#24. Your calling is not an afterthought. God does not save you and then say, "Now what am I going to get him to do? What job can I give her in the church?" God saves you because He has a purpose for you.

Derek Prince

#25. We must all know that each mediocrity, each surrender, each act of complacency will harm us as much as the enemy's rifles.

Albert Camus

#26. Tapes, as we all know, are very powerful evidence. Tapes that are altered are powerfully misleading.

Brendan Sullivan