A Quote by Seth Godin

We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.

Seth Godin

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Seth Godin
American - Writer
Born: July 10, 1960

In December 1989, my mother died very suddenly, and that sparked a re-evaluation of what I was doing, and I realized I was mediocre at everything. I was a mediocre IBM employee, I was a mediocre entrepreneur, I was a mediocre artist. I decided that, although my mom wouldn't be around to see it, I wanted to be great at something.

Jim McKelvey

There's mediocre jazz, mediocre salesmen, mediocre golfers. If you want to be good, you have to really hone your skills.

Jason Moran

Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.

Hannah Nordhaus

We truly believe with hard work, dedication and perseverance, we can become the best at what we do. No one wants to become mediocre.

Andy Biersack

When awareness expands, events that seem random actually aren't. A larger purpose is trying to unfold through you. When you become aware of that purpose- which is unique for each person- you become like an architect who has been handed the blueprint.

Deepak Chopra

How can we help a child change from undependable to dependable, from a mediocre student to a capable student, from someone who won't amount to very much to someone who will count for something. The answer is at once both simple and complicated: We treat a child as if he already is what we would like him to become.

Haim Ginott

If you can't change everything all at once, then at least work on changing something each day. Become aggressive in your battle with the ego. You probably don't need all the things that it wants. You need hope, discipline, creative expression, love, and serenity-these are the important things. Remember, when you are balanced, one stepping stone will lead you to the next. But you will rarely see the whole journey or all the answers at once.

Stuart Wilde

It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk.

Rudolf Bing

If we remove desire to be better, we become mediocre.

Rafael Cruz

A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees. They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance of success.

Jacob Epstein

That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.

Rebecca Goldstein

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

Ira Glass

We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!

Gloria Steinem

You don't achieve greatness in life being surrounded by mediocre people with mediocre values. Choose your company wisely.

Amy Chan

It's not an accident that musicians become musicians and engineers become engineers: it's what they're born to do. If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.

Jack Canfield

There are a lot worse things you can do with all your bucks than giving them to even a mediocre mutual fund - such as, for example, giving them to a mediocre hedge fund. If supporting the lifestyle of a mediocre fund manager is your favorite charity, who am I to stop you?

Gary Weiss

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