Quotes About Mediocrity

You can't talk mediocrity and expect to have victory. You are prophesying your future. If you want a shift to occur, you've got to think positive.

Negotiation is permissible for mediocrity not for excellence.

Their tameness is shocking to me.

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

The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

Snark often functions as an enforcer of mediocrity and conformity. In its cozy knowingness, snark flatters you by assuming that you get the contemptuous joke. You've been admitted, or readmitted, to a club, though it may be the club of the second-rate.

the Principle of Mediocrity opposes the pre-Enlightenment arrogance of believing ourselves significant in the world; the Spaceship Earth metaphor opposes the Enlightenment arrogance of aspiring to control the world.

And you realized, once inside the Secret Service cordon, that the president of the United States was just a politician, surrounded by courtiers and glad-handers and people seeking favors. He was as prone to making stupid decisions as any other politician, maybe more so. The real secret about the White House was that it was so ordinary—mediocrity on steroids.

It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.

Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment.

The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

I have a fear of doing stuff thats not very good and being remembered for that.

Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

The Enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the best.

Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.