Mediocrity Quotes

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not afraid of total failure because I don't think that will happen. I'm not afraid of success because that beats the hell out of failure. It's being in the middle that scares me.

There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity.

Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.

Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it.

Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.

Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities...

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

Literature is air, and Im suffocating in mediocrity.

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

If you're not passionate, you achieve mediocrity

Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.

Mediocrity is underrated.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Today is the most important day of our lives.

That's probably one of my biggest gripes with the Internet - that it settles for mediocrity and disinformation, which puts all information on the same level. Everything has the same value, whether it's Albert Einstein speaking, or [email protected].

Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

It is not that we had any unfair knowledge that other people didn't have, it is just that we did our homework. People just don't want to believe that anyone can break away from the crowd and rise above mediocrity.

Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.

Everything about mediocrity kills me.

In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position.