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Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

For me, everything that you're passionate about always comes with a little pain. That's how life is, and that's how I want to live it. I don't want it to be balanced and ordinary.

Everything about mediocrity kills me.

We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity.

The way that I am now, I don't want to accept mediocrity. I don't want to accept the easy road.

I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

I'm an intensely competitive guy who is driven by the idea that accepting mediocrity or accepting defeat is not the way you succeed in life.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.