Mediocrity Quotes - Page 10

Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.

Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range.

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity - suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.

Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.

Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.

. . .nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.

Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.

A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.

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.

What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

Mediocrity is contextual.

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and inhibiting, this is what is as true as it is distressing.

When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.

I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.

Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.

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.

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.