Mediocrity Quotes
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.
Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies.
Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.
Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.
You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.
Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
Moderation assures mediocrity -- nice, safe. Mediocrity is for the mediocre -- simple, okay. The intense rule; the mediocre follow.
The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.
It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.
Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity.
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.
Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.
Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired.
The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things.
The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.
Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.
It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.
Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been.
You can’t talk mediocrity and expect to have victory. You are prophesying your future. If you want a shift to occur, you’ve got to think positive.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
