Quotes About Mediocrity

My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.

The biggest fear in my life is being mediocre.

We live in an age of mediocrity.

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

Mediocrity never goes away - but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it.

In any area of human endeavour, there is going to be mediocrity. You're going to find people who get money that they shouldn't get.

Do you know what the root of mediation is? Mediocrity!

I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.

The '90s weren't my finest years artistically. I wrote some good songs in there, but in terms of my vision of getting the paint on the canvas, that was not my best time. I didn't like the fact that I had fallen into mediocrity.

I believe that, the prevailing system of management is, at its core, dedicated to mediocrity. It forces people to work harder and harder to compensate for failing to tap the spirit and collective intelligence that characterizes working together at their best. Deming saw this clearly

Mire, aquí en Grecia tenemos la costumbre de llamar importante a cualquier mediocridad, y obra maestra a cualquier librucho vulgar: así pretendemos convencernos de que valemos algo

Tout ça sentait les économies de bout de chandelle, pas la misère mais la médiocrité, ce qui est indéniablement beaucoup plus impardonnable.

As good as' always spells mediocrity. But when a writer's work is in competition with all those thousands of other manuscripts that pour over an editor's desk, he cannot afford to be 'as good as'; he (or she) must be 'better than.

As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.

Average people get to school late; they're average. They barely do their school work.

Playing athletics, playing a lot of different sports, going to drama school... I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, so I ended up being pretty average at everything.

The middle was where it was too easy to be lazy and cynical at the same time.

En fait, la majorité de nos meilleurs étudiants, que ce soit à l'école ou à l'université, sombrent plus tard dans la médiocrité. Leur intérêt pour le succès est dû en grande partie à la pression familiale et non à l'intérêt réel qu'ils prennent au sujet. (p. 223)

In the age of slaves, the freeman had still outnumbered them, and now, in the "age of freedom", for the first time liberty had fled from the majority. Genius, statecraft, the very power of leadership having become suspect in a world where the one essential criterion - mediocrity - gives us the comfortable assurance that no leader shall possess any qualities whatsoever above our own immediate comprehension, man has made sure that no man shall be free.

I find mediocrity hard. I find that whole area difficult. I'm a very passionate person; I care very much about what I do. I believe I give it a lot, so it's gotta be good; otherwise, what's the point?

Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

The height of perfection is mediocrity.