Quotes About Mediocrity

The modern age is the triumph of collective mediocrity.

a remekm?vek jellegzetessége, hogy vannak bennük hibák, hibátlan m?vet csak a középszer?ek tudnak írni.

La envidia es el homenaje que la mediocridad le rinde al talento.

Milioane de oameni m?nânc? fulgi de cereale la micul dejun È™i popcorn când se uit? la film, dar asta nu înseamn? c? sunt suflete mediocre. Oricine e "unic" datorit? stilului personal.

My problem with unions is they breed mediocrity.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women.

Hung-up women can't produce anything but mediocre art, and there ain't no room for mediocre art.

Excellence in obscurity is better than mediocrity in the spotlight.

The high cost of greatness is better than the low cost of mediocrity.

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be.

It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming. It's easier to raise $1,000,000 than it is $100,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.

Mediocrities flock to any movement which will indulge their self-pity and their self-righteousness, for without a Movement the mediocrity is on the slide into terminal melancholia.

He does see Himself as the Divine Artist. Of course, He is also a blunderer—so many of His creations are botched. A good many are disasters which He then proceeds to plow back into the food chain. That is His only means of keeping His multitudinous, mediocre, and often meaningless spawnings from choking the existence of the rest. Yet, I will admit, He is dogged. He is still looking to improve His previous creations.

Casi todos nuestros clientes dejan de existir -¡no queda el alma!- o los reencarna el Dummkopf, al que no le gusta ceder a ninguna de sus criaturas, grandes o pequeñas, juiciosas o insensatas, lo cual puede que sea una razón de que el mundo esté cada vez más plagado de mediocridad.

By God, was Gary like Harry Truman, mediocrity enlarged by history?

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no matter how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.

Persevering mediocrity is much more respectable, and unspeakably more useful, than talented inconstancy. — J. Hamilton.

Most people are boring and stupid.

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities

You have to have a habitual vision of greatness … you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You won't confuse your financial security with your personal integrity, you won't confuse your success with your greatness or your prosperity with your magnanimity … believe in fact that living is connected to giving.