Mediocrity Quotes
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The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.
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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.
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It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.
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Strive for perfection - never be content with mediocrity. You don't win until you conquer the little flaws. You don't beat these great ones until your form is perfect. This is true in all of life. A flaw in a product can ruin a business. A personal failing, a little one, can ruin a person's life. Don't be content with mediocrity - strive to live up to the greatest within you.
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If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself.
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Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.
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Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people.
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It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.
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To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.
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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.
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I wish I could say differently, but I really don't think so. There are too many musicians already for probably anyone to be noticed without some sort of commercial support. Even the most talented ones drown in a sea of mediocrity, and only the politically correct ones will ever be promoted (willingly...) by the press anyhow.
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The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.
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Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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I am incapable of mediocrity.
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Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.
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Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
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Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.
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Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.
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It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.
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Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.
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There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.
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As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.
