Mediocrity Quotes
Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity ...and you've got it made.
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make.
Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.
Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses.
in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.
Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range.
A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.
The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something.
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.
As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.
Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.
I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.
Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.
We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.
Set stretch goals. Don't ever settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don't sell yourself short by thinking that you'll fail.
If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.
I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.
So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
I wake up every morning thinking...this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There's no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal.
Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.
