Quotes About Mediocrity

Great ideas can't be tested. Only mediocre ideas can be tested.

We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.

Aquela aterradora sessão fez com que perdesse a vontade de reencontrar os velhos amigos. Como fez bem, quinze anos antes, em deixar sua convivência! Como o detestam por tê-lo feito! Enquanto ele lutava pela sobrevivência no front ocidental, eles ficavam marinando em seu desconfortável conforto, protegidos pela placa de chumbo da amarga consciência de sua mediocridade.

Pendant qu'il se battait pour sa survie sur le front de l'Ouest, ils sont restés à mariner dans leur inconfortable confort, protégés par la chape de plomb de l'amère conscience de leur médiocrité.

vedremo la fecondità di tutte queste cose mediocri, dal punto di vista dell'eternità, quanto eravamo imbecilli a rifiutarle ad ogni costo e a desiderare che la vita si svolgesse nella sua piccola tranquilla felicità

No queda otra cosa que una gran masa analfabeta creada deliberadamente por el Poder, una especie de muchedumbre amorfa que nos ha hundido a todos en una mediocridad general.

In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest politician, but of the man with the best bedside manner. It is the decoration conferred on mediocrity by ignorance.

At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe.

Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you're not failing from time to time, you're not pushing yourself. And if you're not pushing yourself, you're coasting.

even when we do not choose evil, we choose the good so half heartedly and with so many qualifications that mediocrity becomes our canonized statis quo.

Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe.

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

Because I have a dog, it's easier to work at home: I sit in a horrible weird 'Mastermind'-style chair and bask in my own mediocrity. Being single, I've no family life to distract me at the end of the day. Apart from taking the dog for a walk, I have no other responsibilities.

You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, That was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.

and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.

I know women whose entire personas are woven from a benign mediocrity.

I know women whose entire personas are woven from a benign mediocrity. Their lives are a list of shortcomings: the unappreciative boyfriend, the extra ten pounds, the dismissive boss, the conniving sister, the straying husband. I've always hovered above their stories, nodding in sympathy and thinking how foolish they are, these women, to let these things happen, how undisciplined.

Detta var i princip det värsta som skulle kunnat drabba min tävlingsinriktade hustru: ett samhälle med belåtna medelmåttor.

I know women whose entire personas are woven from a benign mediocrity. Their lives are a list of shortcomings: the unappreciative boyfriend, the extra ten pounds, the dismissive boss, the conniving sister, the straying husband.

Una mujer, para que se la reconozca como escritora, pintora, investigadora o lo que sea, tiene que hacer veinte veces más que un hombre, tiene que ser una fuera de serie. No hay apenas mujeres reconocidas en ninguna profesión, pero el mundo está lleno de célebres hombres mediocres.

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include personal government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

Doing nothing, badly.