Quotes About Mediocrity

That was one manifestation of fear, the voice which whispered that he could not be both great and good, that genius was the exact combination of those inexplicable grooves and twists in his mind, that any discipline would curb it to mediocrity.

Lo que hay de mediocre en los sueños es que todo mundo los tiene.

To conform is to submit and to win is to conform, to be beaten. That is why all victories are essentially vulgar.

So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.

I don't want to be doomed to mediocrity in my feeling for Christ. I want to feel. I want to love. Take me, dear Lord, and set me in the direction I am to go

Ci si rifugia nella mediocrità quando non si spera più nelle cose belle che si sono sognate!

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

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

Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity.

Rock 'n' roll, for me, is another award for underachievers. It is nothing but a testament to mediocrity.

Captain Turner, from my two encounters with him and from this present sailing strategy, seemed to me a classic example of military hierarchy: a guy who was mediocre and competent at some lower level but who had inevitably been promoted to a rank and responsibility where he was finally stupid and incompetent.

Alas! there comes the time when man will no longer launch the arrow of his longing beyond man…. Lo! I show you the last man. The earth has become small and on it hops the last man who makes everything small. His species is ineradicable like the ground flea; the last man lives longest.

Lo que yo quiero, es ser admirado de los demás, elogiado de los demás [...]. Pero esta vida mediocre... ser olvidado cuando muera, eso sí que es horrible [...] sin embargo, algún día me moriré, y los trenes seguirán caminando, y la gente irá al teatro como siempre, y yo estaré muerto, bien muerto... muerto para toda la vida.

ter uma idéia do mundo, de certa maneira, é coisa fácil, todo o mundo tem, geralmente uma idéia circunscrita à sua aldeia, limitada ao torrão, às coisas tangíveis e medíocres que cada um tem diante dos olhos, e essa idéia do mundo, mesquinha, limitada, cheia de sebo familiar, costuma sobreviver e adquirir, com o passar do tempo, autoridade e eloqüência.

O sucesso sempre incomoda os medíocres ambiciosos, os sonhadores incapazes, os fracassados em geral.

La Envidia es la Religión de los Mediocres. (Pedro Vidal en El Juego del Ángel)

Instead of proclaiming the ideals, they educe what experience teaches, what the experience of all the centuries has taught, that the millions get no further than mediocrity.

The philistine tranquillises himself with the trivial.

I am by nature so polemically constituted that I only feel myself really in my element when I am surrounded by human mediocrity and paltriness.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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

Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.