{"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 are no intermediaries when it comes to matters of change. Anyone who is not for change is against it. Anyone who is against change is an enemy of nature!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["change","change-is-coming","change-we-need","change-your-life","enemy","excellence","food-for-thought","half-change","intermediary","israelmore-ayivor","make-a-change","mediocre","mediocrity","middle","nature"],"id":7445,"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":"Negotiation is permissible for mediocrity not for excellence.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","brand","business","business","excellence","excellent","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","marketing","mediocre","mediocre-people","mediocrities","mediocrity","motivation","motivational","motivational","negotiate","negotiation","permissible","permission","philosophy","product","quality","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":29491,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"In the faculty of failure, mediocrity is never an optional course!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bece","choose","course","faculty","faculty-of-failure","fail","failed","failure","fall","fallen","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","mediocre","mediocrity","option","optional","optional-course","pass-your-examination","referral","referred","waec","wassce"],"id":30888,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Change makers take risks and are ready to die for excellence than to give excuses and live for mediocrity.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["change-maker","die","excel","excellence","excuses","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","live","make-a-change","mediocre","mediocrity","passion","personal-development","risk","risks"],"id":36965,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Most journeys are armchair calculations strategically charted in some reclined state that are designed to allow us to embark upon a grand journey without ever leaving the armchair. However, real journeys are absent of furniture.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["absent","chart","charted","destination","furniture","goal","goals","journey","laziness","lazy","mediocre","mediocrity","recline","reclined","strategic"],"id":41458,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["delivery","divorce","food-for-thought","give-birth","israelmore-ayivor","leaders","leadership","martin-luther","martin-luther-king","martin-luther-king-jr","mediocre","mediocrity","normal","status","status-quo"],"id":55373,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"I trust that you are aware that today’s success is tomorrow’s mediocrity. This means anything appealing today will be appalling tomorrow.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["appall","appalling","appeal","appealing","food-for-thought","innovate","innovation","israelmore-ayivor","leaders","leadership","martin-luther","martin-luther-king","martin-luther-king-jr","mediocre","mediocrity","relevance","success","successful","today","today-s-excellence","tomorrow","tomorrow-s-mediocrity"],"id":56405,"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"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":63,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}