Quotes About Mediocrity

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

What ever came of the good scholars in the world? —In the hothouse of the school they do enjoy a short semblance of life, but only the more surely to sink back afterward into mediocrity and insignificance. The world has been bettered only by the bad scholars.

ZwykÅ'o?? zaÅ› równa siÄ™ nijako??, a nijako?? to tanio??.

Truth is truth. If a thousand people believe something foolish, it is still foolish! Truth is never dependent upon consensus of opinion. I have found that it is better to be alone and acting upon the truth in my heart than to follow a gaggle of silly geese doomed to mediocrity.

I now know that criticism is part of the price paid for leaping past mediocrity.

criticism is part of the price paid for leaping past mediocrity.

As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or 'Dog Day Afternoon' or 'The Graduate.' You watch one of those, and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies, it makes you think, If that counts, I certainly could write.

Mediocrity was the dominating element of big conglomerates and, in the new digital age, digitalization goes exactly after mediocrity.

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.

People want you to be ordinary.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

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.

Albert Einstein es: "Los espíritus grandes a menudo han encontrado una oposición violenta por parte de mentes mediocres.

The gods destroy the heroes with a sudden blow, but they grind us mediocrities for weary, weary years.

Secondrateness comes out of his pores like a fog.

too many people dilute their cognitive bandwidth and fragment their attention, accepting poor performances and ordinary achievements while leading lives of disappointing mediocrity.

Veli?ina je upisana u genetskom materijalu svakog ljudskog bi?a. Naši životi bi trebalo da budu uzbudljivi i ispunjeni radoš?u, ljubavlju, mirom i lepotom. Sre?a je naše ro?enjem ste?eno pravo. Pali smo u zamku osrednjosti. Verujemo da nismo stvoreni za ?udesa. Igramo na malo zbog straha da ?emo se povrediti ako zako- ra?imo ka višim mogu?nostima, da nas ljudi ne?e voleti ili da nam životi ne?e funkcionisati.

el potencial sin realizar se convierte en dolor. Y lo más triste es que nos invade la violencia de la mediocridad y una vida pobre. Nos invade en silencio, de manera invisible, hasta que de pronto, ¡zas!, te destroza

Don't accept a life of mediocrity when you hold such infinite potential within the fortress of your mind. Dare to tap into your greatness. This is your birthright!

Y por cierto, es mejor hundirnos en el fracaso por haber querido perseguir nuestras más altas ambiciones, que malgastar nuestras mejores horas viendo la televisión sin salir de la mediocridad.

Jealousy is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius

You are born into genius but have you resigned yourself to mediocrity ?

Because leadership is a lot less about having a formal title, a large office and money in the bank. And a lot more about committing to mastery over all you do—and in who you are. It's about resisting the tyranny of the ordinary, refusing to allow negativity to hijack your sense of awe and preventing any form of slavery to mediocrity from infesting your life.