Quotes About Mediocrity

You know those mass-market cartridges, for the masses? The ones that are so bad they're somehow perversely good? This was worse than that.

I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough -- or I misunderstood what strength was.

A galinha funciona como uma metáfora do artista: um ser imperfeito que produz uma obra superior a ele próprio, enquanto a magia da criação artística é vista como destino de vida e, sobretudo, como uma forma de transcendência e de via de escape da banalidade e da mediocridade.

Estou caindo numa tristeza sem dor. Não é mau. Faz parte. Amanhã provavelmente terei alguma alegria, também sem grandes êxtases, só alegria, e isto também não é mau. É, mas não estou gostando muito deste pacto com a mediocridade de viver.

No, she didn't want to be happy. For fear of entering an unknown world. She preferred the mediocrity of a life she knew. Then she tried to laugh to disguise the terrible and fatal choice.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

La fraternité, Messieurs, réclame pour son exercice une certaine médiocrité démographique.

Nulla porta-lo so- all'amore. E' lui che si butta di traverso sulla vostra strada. La sbarra per sempre o se se ne allontana lascia la via sconvolta, sfondata. Soltanto nel dolore una donna è capace di superare la mediocrità

adore à genoux quand on n'a pas pu l'enterrer sous la boue. La corruption est en force, le talent est rare. Ainsi, la corrup- tion est l'arme de la médiocrité qui abonde, et vous en sentirez partout la pointe.

For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.

HERNANDO MEZA LIVED IN A SECTION OF CORAL Gables that was nice, but not too nice, and so, protected by its own mediocrity, it hadn't changed much over the last twenty years, unlike most of the rest of Miami.

La Rochefoucauld: Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fire.

The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.

If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.

Individual talent is an obstruction principally among teams that employ the facade of a synergy to diminish the majorities mediocrity.

You have to connect with your market and your employees. First, understand that what your market says is fact and what you say is opinion. Then, take the time to create a good connection with your employees. Without those two key connections, your business will be stuck in mediocrity forever.

Punk rock and skateboarding took the 'school' out of living your life, and I related to learning as I went, doing a lot of different things that I liked, when I liked. Consequently, I'm mediocre at all of the above, but still stoked on being a lifetime student of music, skating, painting, writing, etc.

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

I'm an intensely competitive guy who is driven by the idea that accepting mediocrity or accepting defeat is not the way you succeed in life.

Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.

The height of mediocrity is still low.

Here we begin frank speculation. And since we are speculating, we'll use those powerful pseudo-laws, the Principles of Mediocrity and Minimal Assumption.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

Only the mediocre artist is always at his best.