Quotes About Mediocrity

You will never see an eagle of distinction flying low with pigeons of mediocrity.

For being the best in the world is not possible, to be the worst in the world is also not possible, in between is always possible.

As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or 'Dog Day Afternoon' or 'The Graduate.' You watch one of those, and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies, it makes you think, If that counts, I certainly could write.

El resentimiento pertenece a los jugadores mediocres.

Thus are two ideas as opposite as can be imagined reconciled in the extremes of both; and both, in spite of their opposite nature, brought to concur in producing the sublime. And this is not the only instance wherein the opposite extremes operate equally in favor of the sublime, which in all things abhors mediocrity.

Idleness is only fatal to the mediocre.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

My biggest fear is that the world may become drowned in artistic mediocrity.

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.

I've always known from the beginning of my acting career that you only get an acting job if you've got something to learn about it. If you don't do it well, you'll be condemned to doing the same role over and over and over again. If you do it mediocre, you'll have to do it again.

he'd have to improve significantly to achieve mediocrity.

he was not a person to whom things simply happened. His life had been lived in some kind of neutral gear, he had never broken a limb, never been stung by a bee, never been close to love or death. He had never strived for greatness, and his reward had been a small life.

No," I said primly, I had no intention of being a writer because "I wouldn't want to add another mediocre writer to the world.

There are no guarantees of success, much less of quality. If you don't dare to be a mediocre writer, you'll never be a writer at all.

Comfort, though can be a real reason for mediocrity and conformity, improves speed and enhances mind power greatly!

Nietzsche talked about "good and bad" in the context of nobility. The nobles regarded the exceptional as good and the mediocre as bad. When the "good and bad" of the nobility was replaced by the "good and evil" of the mob, exceptionalism was declared evil, and mediocrity was sanctified. The holy mediocrities are now everywhere. The kingdom of mediocrity is absolute … absolute shit!

It's a comfortable place, mediocrity. Never pushing oneself to the limit to see what you can take. Never staring down your fears, never reaching into yourself to find that last bit of courage. You don't even know what it is that you're made of-and what's more, you seem distinctly uninterested in finding out.

It's a comfortable place, mediocrity. Never pushing oneself to the limit to see what you can take. Never staring down your fears, never reaching into yourself to find that last bit of courage. You don't even know what it is that you are made of

You are born into genius but have you resigned yourself to mediocrity ?

Greatness begins where mediocrity ends.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.