"Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not afraid of total failure because I don't think that will happen. I'm not afraid of success because that beats the hell out of failure. It's being in the middle that scares me."

-- Robert Downey, Jr.

#Thinking Quotes #Scare Quotes #Mediocrity Quotes

“I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue.”
“While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of "rags to riches" were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control.”
“In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.”
“Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.”
“I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn't real healthy.”
“Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.”
“Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension over who would control the remote.”
“Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.”

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