Mediocrity Quotes

I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous... they ought to be abolished.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

We often reward mediocrity because it is comforting. If they can do it, anyone can do it.

You can’t think thoughts of mediocrity and expect to excel. The two don’t go together.

It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

We live in an age of mediocrity. Stars today are not the same stature as Bogie [Humphrey Bogart], James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart [James Stewart].

Go after what you want as if your life depended on it. Because it Does!

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.

The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish.

Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order.

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

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.

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge

Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a loser in life.

Caution is the path to mediocrity.

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.

Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort.

Half talent is no talent.

No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.

Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.

An achievement-oriented culture is very pro-employee - it's so much more fun than one that isn't. Excellence is a tremendous amount of fun; mediocrity is not.

Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity.

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

No one will ever follow you down the street if you're carrying a banner that says, "Onward toward mediocrity."