Quotes About Mediocrity

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

They were one of those depressing families, so common among the middle-middle class, in which nothing ever happens

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.

Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.

Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.

Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.

Local loser. Cornerstone of mediocrity. Sexual midget. Pathetic cardplayer. And now weird-shit magnet on top of it.

Those who think he had lucky breaks are not only unaware of the real story but also fall prey to that sin of the mediocre: bitchiness about others' success

La mediocridad no conoce nada más allá de ella, pero el talento instantáneamente reconoce a los genios.

La mediocridad no reconoce nada por encima de sí misma, pero el talento reconoce al genio al instante

In general, however, grand opera, by more and more deadening our musical receptivity through its three-hours duration and at the same time putting our patience to the test through the snail's pace of what is usually a very trite action, is in itself intrinsically and essentially boring; which failing can be overcome only by the excessive excellence of an individual achievement: that is why in this genre only the masterpieces are enjoyable and everything mediocre is unendurable.

Dovunque e comunque si manifesti l'eccellenza, subito la generale mediocrità si allea e congiura per soffocarla.

What is troubling is not just being average but settling for it. Everyone knows that average-ness is, for most of us, our fate. And in certain matters—looks, money, tennis—we would do well to accept this. But in your surgeon, your child's pediatrician, your police department, your local high school? When the stakes are our lives and the lives of our children, we want no one to settle for average.

It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society is to encourage excellence. But giving in to the fear of feeling and working to capacity is a luxury only the unintentional can afford, and the unintentional are those who do not wish to guide their own destinies.

It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society is to encourage excellence. But giving in to the fear of feeling and working to a capacity is a luxury only the unintentional can afford, and the unintentional are those who do not wish to guide their own destinies.

Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.

Don't set out to raze all shrines, you'll frighten men. enshrine mediocrity-and the shrines are razed.

like a weighted diver sinking in an ocean of mediocrity, under the pressure of men with gelatin eyes, rubber voices, spiral-shaped convictions, non-committal souls and non-committing hands ...

Sometimes a person who is valued, respected, even loved by all, cares most, in the innermost recess of his soul, about the opinion of someone who stands uninterested outside the circle of admirers, and who may be, in the eyes of the world, of no particular importance, a mediocrity.

There is time to compromise. There is time to absolutely abhor d word. Most times it is the latter. Compromise is mediocrity. Compromise is cheap.

Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?

I believe that we are all born for greatness yet most of us mire in the mediocrity of life. We become complacent or worse, discouraged and stagnate. We damn ourselves by not progressing.

Not being impressed by anyone or anything is one of the surest paths to a life of mediocrity.