FastSaying

It is my intense fear of mediocrity that drives me.


Romaine Bruney

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Fear is what drives me to your demise.
DONALD C HALL Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to ...
CHRIS PINE I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS It's pronounced 'Romaine', like the lettuce.
REBECCA ROMIJN It's pronounced 'Romaine, ' like the lettuce.
REBECCA ROMIJN STAMOS I am driven by a fear of mediocrity and a sense of purpose.
KENI THOMAS My mediocrity is no secret; my battles with it are.
KARAN PATADE Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots o...
DYLAN THOMAS Fear drives you and makes you better
DONNA SHALALA We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear: fear of...
SUKARNO I can't stop thinking about my past, and it drives me crazy
EE There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense lov...
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON It actually motivated me more. It was an intense match already, but that made it even more intense.
BRANDON LOW I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are...
KRISTEN STEWART I've always had a chip on my shoulder. It kind of drives me. It's something that allows me t...
DANIEL CORMIER I act like sh*t don't phase me, inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive.
EMINEM I want love, passion, honesty, and companionship... sex that drives me crazy and conversation that d...
STEVE MARABOLI It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN La vida loca, that's my life right now. I'm going through an adrenaline rush that my career is givin...
RICKY MARTIN Fear is my motive Fear is what gives me confiednce Fear is why I success
J DAK So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from m...
GERALDINE CHAPLIN I cannot be afraid of being afraid. Rather, I need to realize that it is my fear that gives me the e...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The question that women casually shopping for perfume ask more than any other is this: "What scent d...
TANIA SANCHEZ What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
DEYTH BANGER My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
FRANZ KAFKA My ''fear''... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
FRANZ KAFKA It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise fr...
GERALDINE CHAPLIN Fear drives you from a responsive state to reactive state! Watch On!
RAMANA PEMMARAJU What drives me is winning championships.
TONY PARKER I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me ...
ALEXEI NAVALNY My biggest fear is that no one will bid on my envelope, ... So have pity on me and bid on it.
CHERYL HINES You resist, and it drives me wild.
GENA SHOWALTER That drives me nuts when they do that,
PATRICIA HEATON If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... In my work I think what drives me is perfection. I'm a chronically unsatisfied guy.
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
FRANZ KAFKA Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is ...
AHMED BEN BELLA With the overhanging cloud of the Iraqi situation, renewed fears of terrorism and tensions with Nort...
JOHN PERSON What drives me is winning medals and going out there and enjoying it.
MO FARAH I feel that the key to winning is heart and determination. Prayer prepares me before every game and ...
DARIEN JOHNSON My day job is as a lawyer and I enjoy my job very much. But I think I've known for most of my life t...
GEOFF PEMBLE I've always been very attentive to detail. It's a characteristic that drives some people cra...
ALAN W. LIVINGSTON I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity,...
GILLIAN ANDERSON I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
H. P. LOVECRAFT I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other wo...
ADELINE YEN MAH People always ask me if I'm nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn't seem w...
MAGDA APANOWICZ Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
ELLEN GLASGOW My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.
DAVID MAMET Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here.
KATHLEEN WYNNE To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I...
FRANK HERBERT One of things that drives me nuts is you rarely get bad guys who are written very well.
ERIC JOHNSON Mediocrity is an option, it's just not going into my playbook.
MARCUS MAYO It's always the challenge of the future, this feeling of excitement, that drives me.
YOSHIHISA TABUCHI My mom drives me crazy sometimes, but I have a good relationship with her.
SETH ROGEN You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA I am not a fool. I am wise. I will run from my fear, I will outdistance my fear, then I will hide fr...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
THOMAS JEFFERSON My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
WASHINGTON IRVING My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON God is my chauffeur...He drives everything in my life.
PABALLO SEIPEI I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I...
FRANK HERBERT Fear says that what God has called me to is blatantly impossible. Selfishness says that the cost is ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, ...
JENNIFER LOPEZ Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social inepti...
CINDY SHERMAN Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and gen...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and gen...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU Vision is the code that decodes every mediocrity out of life.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.
EDITH WIDDER I will not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I...
FRANK HERBERT Because our family doesn't decide who we are. WE decide who we are. Believe me, it drives my parents...
SHANNON MESSENGER There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone whe...
MICHAEL JORDAN My self-editing process is intense.
GEORGE MURRAY For me, feeling good is line drives to left field.
FREDDIE FREEMAN It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.
RACHEL MCADAMS My passions, when roused, are intense, and, so long as I am activated by them, nothing equals my imp...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa...
ERIK GRIFFIN The beginning of knowledge is the fear of fear. What is fear? Nobody answer me please, okay !!!
EPHDAN Incrementalism guarantees only one thing that is mediocrity
FAISAL KHOSA When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit...
BORIS SPASSKY One of the most important discoveries I have ever made is this truth: God is most glorified in me wh...
JOHN PIPER I never took myself out of it and kept my drives in the fairway.
WILL MORRIS I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends bec...
RUSSIAN PROVERB I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocr...
ERNST LUBITSCH I have these long nails, but I literally do nothing to them! The thought of filing my nails drives m...
KACY HILL They have accorded me my constitutional rights, and that is to their credit because the media hate c...
ERNST ZUNDEL Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my ...
CHUCK YEAGER Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who's running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right...
HALE IRWIN Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
OSCAR WILDE What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I'm far too nervous,...
JONATHAN DAVIS Jon is a guy who saddles himself with lots of responsibility. He loves that, drives on it. That’s ...
RICHIE SAMBORA It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature ...
WILLIAM H. GASS

More Romaine Bruney

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from...
ROMAINE ROLLAND Offensively the game plan was executed almost flawlessly. We were balanced, and we mixed it up.
TOM BRUNEY