Famous Quotes & Sayings

Audre Lorde

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

William Blake

Mechanical excellence is the only vehicle of genius.

Kevin Wilson

We want excellence in every area. We don't want excuses.

Charles de Gaulle

There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.

Bruce Schneier

There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.

Brian Tracy

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Brian Tracy

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

Bill O'Reilly

It's an excellent movie. Really excellent.

Bill Gates

Hey, size works against excellence.

Benedict Cumberbatch

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

Blaise Pascal

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

Ayn Rand

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

Brandon Lee

For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

Cesare Lombroso

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities

Eddie McGuire

The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily,

Baltasar Gracian

Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.

Charles Lamb

We encourage one another in mediocrity.

Anton Chekhov

There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

Bill Nye

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

Dan Ariely

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

Edwin Land

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

Billy Crudup

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

Andrzej Wajda

Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.

Doris Lessing

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

Anthony Fauci

Activism has been very productive in our society.

Matt Taibbi

Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using institutions like the courts to speed the process.