Mediocrity Quotes
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
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Watch, listen, and learn. You can't know it all yourself-anyone who thinks that they do is destined for mediocrity.
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Mediocrity is not worth the trip.
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Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.
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Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.
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Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.
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Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.
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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
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You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his mediocrity prevents him from being a threat to others. And for this reason a democracy is never governed by the most competent, but rather by those whose insignificance will not jeopardize anyone else's self-esteem.
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In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
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Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.
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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
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It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.
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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
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Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.
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Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.
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Your close men friends should be willing to challenge your mediocrity by suggesting a concrete action you can perform that will pop you out of your rut, one way or the other. And you must be willing to offer them your brutal honesty, in the same way, if you are all to grow.
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The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
