Mediocrity Quotes
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Nobody really knows which is happening when the teacher closes the door. At worst, mediocrity. At best, miracles.
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There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
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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.
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I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.
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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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You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.
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Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
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It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.
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They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU.
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Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.
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We live in an age of mediocrity. Stars today are not the same stature as Bogie Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart James Stewart.
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The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.
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There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
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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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One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.
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Never let the limitations or insecurities of others limit what is possible for you.
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Bloated, one Kirchner himself staggers off to work, where all work is in vain and the onslaught of mediocrity flattens everything. Like the cocottes that I painted, that is how one is now. Wiped out, next time gone.
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Everyone chooses one of two roads in life - the old and the young, the rich and the poor, men and women alike. One is the broad, well-traveled road to mediocrity, the other road to greatness and meaning.
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You see, I'm not interested in mediocrity in photography. I'm not interested in selling cat shit to dogs. I just want to do my own thing. If people like my work, all the better. If they don't, too bad.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.
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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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When I think of normality I think of mediocrity.
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Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
