Mediocrity Quotes
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.
The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.
The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.
For every person seeking greatness, there are hundreds more charged with safeguarding mediocrity. If you want to be wealthy, stop taking financial advice from broke people.
It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.
If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself.
I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity.
Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.
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.
Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.
A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.
One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.
Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.
Today we've learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists.
In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity
They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU.
You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.
In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary mediocrity into bright and shining excellence.
Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.
Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.
A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.
Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.
There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.
Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it.
Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.