Dallas Willard Quotes

What makes me unique is that I'm normal.

… the commonest little dog I have ever seen, without one sign of distinction

I don't consider myself to be an extraordinary person.

And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity.

He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

We're as average as everyday's wash.

I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.

A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Wisdom's daughter walks alone. That didn't just mean without other people, Annabeth realized. It meant without any special powers.

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.

You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.

Remember, half the people you know are below average.

I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!

Good is the enemy of great.. The vast majority of good companies remain just that - good, but not great.

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.

I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f--- out of me.

A sharp spear needs no polish.

The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal.

I always have the feeling that I'm just another human being.