Mediocrity Quotes
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Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.
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Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
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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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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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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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Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.
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Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.
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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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Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.
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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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It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to 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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I am incapable of 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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Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people.
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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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When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.
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A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.
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To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.
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Love It, is to increase by forgetting. It's escape through a single being to mediocrity of all other. It's one more for trying to be less. It's become like everyone else in the belief that we become as a person. It is giving appointment to happiness in the palace of chance.
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Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
