Quotes About Mediocrity

A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.

He lived in terror of, well, becoming ordinary.

They did not ask my permission for their mediocrity, why should I ask theirs for excellence?

Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.

To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.

For many 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.

Aaverage is being the best of the worst and the worst of the best. To be a champion average can't be in your vocabulary.

But for the sea-nymph Thetis nothing could ever eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.

Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses and become huge. Of course, all of you think that one describes you...hence the delusion necessary to push on.

hope and dreams, but has now plateaued, where affections have cooled and intimacy has faded. Rather than name the problem, face their pain, and ask for help, the couple resign themselves to a life of mediocrity, living together as intimate strangers.

Watch a marriage that was begun with hope and dreams, but has now plateaued, where affections have cooled and intimacy has faded. Rather than name the problem, face their pain, and ask for help, the couple resign themselves to a life of mediocrity, living together as intimate strangers. See a middle-aged man who spends

At worst it was perhaps malevolent mediocrity.

There you have the difference between greatness and mediocrity. It's not an uncommon disease. But it's nice for a mediocre man to know that greatness must be the loneliest state in the world.

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

It's nice for a mediocre man to know that greatness must be the loneliest state in the world.

Greatness is lonely and mediocre people feel consoled by that thought. One has to choose between greatness and mediocrity oneself and the responsibility is all theirs if they accept greatness.

There you have the difference between greatness and mediocrity. It's not an uncommon disease. But it's nice for a mediocre man to know that greatness must be the loneliest state in the world.

Being average means you are as close to the bottom as you are to the top.

I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body.

I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.

The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.

I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.

The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.

Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.