A Quote by James C. Collins

The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things.

James C. Collins

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Chronic Consistent Disciplined Focus Greatness Inconstancy Mediocrity Right Right Thing Right Things Signature The Right Thing Things

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James C. Collins
American - Businessman
Born: January 25, 1958

The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.

James C. Collins

The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.

James C. Collins

Whether you're walking the catwalk or whether you're in front of the camera, there's no such thing as a signature pose or signature look or even a signature walk.

Lydia Hearst

I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: “I can’t live without my Smythson notebook, Pomegranate Noir cologne by Jo Malone and Frette sheets”. In the grip of madness, materialism begins to look like an admirable belief system.

Emma Forrest

I'm not interested in placing my signature on a house but would rather it be a signature of the place it's located.

Jaquelin T. Robertson

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

David Lee Roth

Resilency, not perfection, is the signature of greatness.

James C. Collins

We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Take two paintings by the same artist, one has a signature and the other doesn't. The signed picture is generally more valuable. The signature is almost graffiti or a tagging system, yet it can become more important than the subject.

Gavin Turk

Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.

George E. P. Box

I think people don't realise that running a piece of code that verifies some conditions for a financial transaction, that by itself is a lot less work than verifying a cryptographic signature, and so even if the virtual machine is inefficient, the cryptographic signature is still going to dominate.

Vitalik Buterin

The artist has the power to signoff the work by deconstructing the work itself: I've finished this work now and I'll sign it and relegate the painting to simply something that services my signature. The painting becomes the colorful backdrop of the signature.

Gavin Turk

I don't want my own shoe. That is something I have never wanted. If anybody is pitching that, I would say no. I feel like that is the only thing that limits me, being a signature athlete, because you have to wear your signature shoe all of the time. I don't want no parts of that.

P. J. Tucker

I don't think I'm intentionally rejecting anything for the sake of rejecting it. I do think though that my style is hard to define around a certain signature. Perhaps the haphazard style will itself become a signature?

Susanna Lau

Many kids and parents ask me, 'What kind of guitar can I buy?' It's a great opportunity for those people to be able to buy a quality guitar that's not necessarily a little Fender or whatever. Ernie Ball signature model guitar is something that's more signature.

John Petrucci

Ramones or AC/DC are two bands that have managed to keep their signature sound and their signature formula for years and years and album after album after album, without it seeming like a dead-end street.

Dave Grohl

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