Quotes About Mediocrity

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

In this part of the world all shrines are built to honor the great spirit of mediocrity.

So part of the issue is—do you want to do something great—in any area? If you are content with mediocrity in your life, then you will try to protect yourself from any failure. Just recognize the trade-off.

Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew.

If you believed in the "mediocrity of the masses," as he put it, then mediocrity became the ceiling on what you could achieve.

The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive—and autonomy can be the antidote." TOM KELLEY General Manager, IDEO

The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive—and autonomy can be the antidote

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The experiments showed further that the mean filial regression towards mediocrity was directly proportional to the parental deviation from it.

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.

I have played 50 different kinds of fathers and villains. Only mediocre actors play the part the same way.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

Some of us have incredible potential, but we don't want to try anything bold because we don't want to fail. The easy choice: live in the relative safety of mediocrity because we think that's better than rejection.

Peter Morrow took no risks. He neither failed nor succeeded. There were no valleys, but neither were there mountains. Peter's landscape was flat. An endless, predictable desert.

What the mediocrity principle tells us is that our state is not the product of intent, that the universe lacks both malice and benevolence, but that everything does follow rules—and that grasping those rules should be the goal of science.

Average" is the top of the bottom, the best of the worst, the bottom of the top, the worst of the best. Which of these are you?

Those who fly always first get out on the edge. If you want to seize an opportunity, you must take a risk. If you want to grow, you must make mistakes. If you want to reach your potential, you will have to take chances. If you don't, you will be resigned to a life of mediocrity. The people who don't make mistakes end up working for those who do. And in the end, they often end up regretting the safe life they lived. —

Average" is what failures claim to be when their friends ask them why they are not more successful. "Average" is the top of the bottom, the best of the worst, the bottom of the top, the worst of the top. Which of these are you? "Average" means being run-of-the-mill, mediocre, insignificant, an also-ran, a non-entity. Being "average" is the lazy person's cop-out; it's lacking guts to take a stand in life; it's living by default.

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate friends

The fear in being great is the return to mediocrity but if you grow with God each day will be blessed. He won't build you up to leave you.

Often we don't see the majesty of God's design because we're caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs.

If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.

Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.