{"quotes":[{"text":"Good leaders always bring about transformation... Bad leaders only maintain and preserve long standing mediocrity!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["average","change","excel","excellence","food-for-thought","good-leaders","israelmore-ayivor","lead","lead-people","leader","leaders","maintain","make-a-change","mediocre","mediocrity","preserve","take-the-lead","transform","transformation","transforming"],"id":4314,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"There is no future in the past. Any tour into the past is perhaps courage to live at the average level as you did; old and cold, blind and blunt! Come out! Out of the past and change position. You matter, your future matters.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["average","blind","blunt","change","change-position","cold","cold-and-old","courage","focus","food-for-thought","future","hope-for-the-future","israelmore-ayivor","make-a-change","mediocre","mediocrity","old","old-and-cold","past"],"id":13517,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"People with inferiority intentions do not go after their dreams not because they can't go; but because their passion is not strong enough to turn the wheels of success...And there they go, becoming losers, defeated by their obstacles!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["above-average","average","below","below-average","defeat","defeated","dreams","enough","food-for-thought","inferiority","intentions","israelmore-ayivor","losers","low","lower","obstacles","passion","people","strong","success"],"id":59813,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"To become a better you, be diligent and never let the charms of procrastination and excuses seduce you to fall for mediocrity.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["average","better-you","charm","charms","diligence","diligent","excel","excellence","excellent","excuse","excuses","food-for-thought","hard","hard-work","israelmore-ayivor","mediocre","mediocrity","personal-development","procrastinate","procrastination","seduce","seduction","success","work","work-hard"],"id":60009,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.","author":"H. L. Mencken","tags":["man","believe","average "],"id":66486,"author_id":"H.+L.+Mencken"},{"text":"Surround yourself with people that want more out of life. That won’t settle for average. People that you can connect with on a deeper level. Keep your circle fresh. Keep your circle full of quality rather than quantity. Full of cool ass humans that you can be yourself around. People that fill you up with nothing but love. People that want to see you succeed. People that GET IT. Good circle, good life!","author":"Genereux Philip","tags":["average","circle","connect","deeper","fresh","friendship","frienimes","good-life","humam","inspirational","level","love","marriage","motivational","quality","quantity","about-life","relationship","settle","street","surround"],"id":80488,"author_id":"Genereux+Philip"},{"text":"Where you are now is as a result of either your choice or someone’s choice. If you neglect the ideas of choosing the ultimate things for yourself, someone will hire you by choosing the average thing for you.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["average","choices","choose","decide","decision","decision-making","food-for-thought","hire","israelmore-ayivor","make-a-choice","mediocre","mediocrity","neglect","negligence","ultimate","your-choice"],"id":85251,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of the most important service to the science of man and the social system. It ought necessarily to precede every other inquiry into social physics, since it is, as it were, the basis. The average man, indeed, is in a nation what the centre of gravity is in a body; it is by having that central point in view that we arrive at the apprehension of all the phenomena of equilibrium and motion.","author":"Adolphe Quetelet","tags":["average","average-man","centre-of-gravity","curiosity","important","inquiry","physics","science","service"],"id":95798,"author_id":"Adolphe+Quetelet"},{"text":"The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.","author":"Paul Harris","tags":["equal","average","being "],"id":96471,"author_id":"Paul+Harris"},{"text":"Superiority complex does not mean 'pride' although it appears to be so in the eyes of those who want to see it so. When you feel a higher esteem over the obstacles you desire to surmount, you highly overcome them and can still count a reserved energy to spare!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["above-average","appears","average","below-average","come-over","complex","conquer","conqueror","desire","empowered","energize","energy","esteem","eyes","feel","food-for-thought","high","higher","higher-highest","highly","highly-overcome","inferior","inferiority","israelmore-ayivor","obstacles","overcome","pair-of-eyes","power","powerful","pride","proud","reserved","see","spare","super","superior","superiority-complex","superman","surmount","to-spare","victor","victory","winner"],"id":104220,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":57,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}