Mediocrity Quotes
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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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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
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Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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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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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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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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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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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.
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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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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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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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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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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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The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.
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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.
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The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily.
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Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
