Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.

Being average means to settle for less than you truly want and are capable of, and to struggle for your entire life.

You can't win by being more average than average.

Rules direct us to average behaviors. If we’re aiming to create works that are exceptional, most rules don’t apply. Average is nothing to aspire to. The goal is not to fit in. If anything, it’s to amplify the differences, what doesn’t fit, the special characteristics unique to how you see the world.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

Being average means you are as close to the bottom as you are to the top.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to...failure.

The hardest question for anyone who takes responsibility for what he or she does is, What if I turn out to be average?

If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

Why risk looking like an idiot when you can remain average?

Competition is for losers.

Show me a good loser and i'll show you a loser

You're going through college, and you're going to be faced with a lot of things. You're going to face adversity, the main thing is don't quit. For many people it's easy to quit, but don't. That's what separates the winners from the losers, what separates the all-stars from the also-rans.

What separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations that they had for their own lives. Yet the message of the right is increasingly: It’s not your fault that you’re a loser; it’s the government’s fault.