Vladimir Nabokov Quote

Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.

Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more tim...

By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.

When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect.

When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail to see even the smallest of things.

We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless.

What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time.

If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business.

Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.

To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!