“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”
“Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable.”
“Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves.”
“People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.”
“Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.”
“Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.”