{"quotes":[{"text":"Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.","author":"Max Beerbohm","tags":["mediocrity","always","trusted "],"id":3772,"author_id":"Max+Beerbohm"},{"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":"Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.","author":"Robert Louis Stevenson","tags":["people","mediocrity "],"id":5829,"author_id":"Robert+Louis+Stevenson"},{"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":"I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.","author":"Dick Cavett","tags":["live","think","mediocrity "],"id":8693,"author_id":"Dick+Cavett"},{"text":"Question the status quo; rebuke the existing rules, though it may be at the discomfort of the masses. They may however come to a later realization that it was really worth it and you may now have the status quo.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["daring","doing-the-right-thing","facing-problems","inspirational","lessons-of-life","living-well","mediocrity","motivational","purposefulness","refusing-to-give-up","relivance-of-our-existence","resilience","the-status-quo","wisdom","wit"],"id":9884,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire. They bare their teeth at you from out of their rat holes,thinking that you take pleasure in letting your brilliance dim them - while you'd give a year of my life to see a flicker of talent anywhere among them. They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear. They have no way of knowing what he feels when surrounded by inferiors - hatred? No, not hatred, but boredom - the terrible, hopeless, draining, paralyzing boredom. Of what account are praise and adulation from men whom you don't respect? Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?'I've felt it all my life,' she said.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["achievement","atlas-shrugged","inspirational","mediocrity","objectivism","second-handers"],"id":10463,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"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":"An important step in escaping mediocrity is to stop worrying about what other people think of you.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["escaping","importance","mediocrity","thinking","worrying"],"id":14990,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how they move.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["action","apathy","inspiration","mediocrity","passiveness","success"],"id":15031,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":201,"pages":21,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}