Mediocrity Quotes
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When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.
C. S. Lewis
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The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.
Seth Godin
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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.
Stanley Kubrick
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Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
William Hurt
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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.
Abel Bonnard
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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.
John Stuart Mill
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
Seneca the Younger
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Never let the limitations or insecurities of others limit what is possible for you.
Hal Elrod
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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.
Ralph Gibson
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There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Norman Vincent Peale
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The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The danger of the two-talent man is that he will be content with mediocrity.
Walter Russell Bowie
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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.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Nobody really knows which is happening when the teacher closes the door. At worst, mediocrity. At best, miracles.
Esme Raji Codell
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When I think of normality I think of mediocrity.
Gillian Anderson
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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.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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Our party's most outstanding mediocrity.
Leon Trotsky
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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.
Hal Elrod
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It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.
Joseph Cook
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There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
Sean Penn
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Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over
Seth Godin
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If you have to fear something, fear mediocrity.
Alex Bogusky
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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.
Lauren Bacall
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Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.
Andrew Keen