Mediocrity Quotes
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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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The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.
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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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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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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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It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.
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Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people.
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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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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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Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.
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Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.
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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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Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
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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 am incapable of mediocrity.
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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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Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.
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Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.
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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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The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions and extensions of the franchise, their effect being to place the principal power in the hands of classes more and more below the highest level of instruction in the community.
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Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.
