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The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.
Rene Magritte
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Rene Magritte
Belgian
Artist
Born:
Nov 21
,
1898
Died:
Aug 15
,
1967
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Atom Bomb
,
Bomb
,
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All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
Scott Alexander
Good
Losing
Evil
Cheating
Mediocrity
Easy
Stay
Dying
Hard
Away
As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.
Hunter S. Thompson
Field
Mediocrity
Vital
Potentially
Shame
Stuck
Generally
Journalism
Concerned
Overrun
Bums
As Far As
Dynamic
Stagnant
Apathy
Far
Should
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Norman Vincent Peale
Enthusiasm
Mediocrity
Spells
Magic
Between
Real
Accomplishment
Difference
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Great
Men
Mediocrity
Enterprises
Small
Attempt
Always
Reducing
End
Them
Level
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Andrew Carnegie
People
Matter
Mediocrity
Other
Unable
Must
Talents
Content
How
Motivate
Impressive
Themselves
Who
Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity.
Eva Moskowitz
You
People
Path
Sense
Mediocrity
Other
Once
Hundreds
Those
Minute
Give
Excellence
No Sense
Idea
Towards
Most
Execution
Make
Accept
Because
Accumulate
Want
Decisions
Should
Reasonable
Appear
Level
Things
Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
Nancy Pearcey
Best
Good
People
Competition
Satisfied
Mediocrity
Monopoly
Complacent
Our
Good Thing
Forces
Always
Us
Thing
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Eric Hoffer
Water
Wine
Mediocrity
He
Idea
Real
Antichrist
Turns
Who
Original
Original Idea
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo
Genius
Seen
Whatever
Mediocrity
Too
Everything
Lofty
Easy
Admire
About
Horror
Sacred
Hills
Well
Masterpiece
Mountain
Grand
Appalling
Assembly
Near
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.
Warren Bennis
Teacher
Better
Mediocrity
Everywhere
Insights
Only
Excellence
Studying
Exemplary
Truly
Than
Ordinary
Lessons
Original
Found
Profound
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