Ray Bennett > Quotes

“The tallest blade of grass is the surest to be cut.”
― Ray Bennett, The Underachiever's Manifesto: The Guide to Accomplishing Little and Feeling Great

“To seek perfection is to be cursed to find fault in the perfectly adequate, enjoyable, or even just plain good.”
― Ray Bennett, The Underachiever's Manifesto

“You must always work not just within, but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way, the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve. —Pablo Picasso”
― Ray Bennett, The Underachiever's Manifesto

“Religion is too often the pretext for war, hatred, intolerance among different faiths, and competitive piety within faiths. But the problem isn’t with faith, or even with difference in faith, within the churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques. The problem is the overachievers in those institutions.”
― Ray Bennett, The Underachiever's Manifesto

“It’s also a time-honored, hardwired tradition for children to not want what their parents push on them.”
― Ray Bennett, The Underachiever's Manifesto

“If the faith of underachievement holds anything to be true, it's that by not striving to be better than someone else, you're free to better yourself.”
― Ray Bennett, The Underachiever's Manifesto: The Guide to Accomplishing Little and Feeling Great

“Despite everything you may have heard about striving for excellence, mediocrity is the key to happiness. Consider: There are more than six billion people on the planet. Almost none of them care about your latest victory in the stock market, or the promotion you “earned.” You finally bought that new car? Found a way to swing the payments on a bigger house? You lost six pounds last week? Wonderful. A disconcerting number of the six billion are just trying to get enough food to stay alive.”
― Ray Bennett, The Underachiever's Manifesto