Quotes About Mediocrity

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

I think I do a lot of things averagely. So I have to combine them. It looks impressive but actually I don't think I excel at any of them.

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

Epitaph Den Tigern ertrann ich Die Wanzen nährte ich Aufgefressen wurde ich Von den Mittelmäßigkeiten.

goodness is murdered, mediocrity thrives...

When did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children?

It isn't the high price of stars that is expensive; it's the high price of mediocrity.

I want to add something worthwhile rather than just chucking loads of stuff into the world. I don't want to feel responsible for adding to the soup of mediocrity.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

J'ai rêvé la gloire quand j'étais tout enfant, et maintenant je n'ai même plus l'orgueil de la médiocrité.

He remembers with disdain the ignorance of other days, the mediocrity of his dreams. And now those luminous globes he was wont to gaze upon from below are close to him!

Los discursos exagerados solo sirven para encubrir afectos mediocres.

Emma se sentí satisfeta interiorment creient que havia assolit d'un sol cop aquell rar ideal propi de les existències pàl·lides al qual els cors mediocres no podran arribar mai.

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

Dans le royaume des aveugles les borgnes sont rois. Tous ces gens-là, voyez-vous, sont des médiocres, parce qu'ils ont l'esprit entre deux murs, – l'argent et la politique. – Ce sont des cuistres, mon cher, avec qui il est impossible de parler de rien, de rien de ce que nous aimons. Leur intelligence est à fond de vase, ou plutôt à fond de dépotoir, comme la Seine à Asnières.

Third-rate men, of course, exist in all countries, but it is only here that they are in full control of the state, and with it of all the national standards.

He lived in terror of, well, becoming ordinary.

That's where the public like their artists—exposed, trousers down, arse up, doing a long stretch among serial killers, and shitting in front of strangers. That'll teach 'em to think their talent makes them better than mediocre no-brain tax-paying wage slaves like us.

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.

Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity.

I used to run track in high school and was unexceptional in every way.

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.