Mediocrity Quotes - Page 11

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.

The height of mediocrity is still low.

We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

Anything you do fearless, you do in mediocrity.

The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.

Expectations are the engines of our perceptions.

What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.

We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer.

Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity.

The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics, our standards start to sag. The muscle gets soft, and instead of excellence we have to settle for mediocrity. Maybe something even worse.

In the age of mediocrity and clones, John Stowell's uniqueness and originality are a breath of fresh air. I love playing with him.

Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

That Monica who's just gonna sit there in mediocrity... That Monica died in Samoa

Attaining even mediocrity is often a struggle.

Mediocrity has a way of keeping demons from the door.

But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.

It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately.

We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology.

Crimes can be redeemed, but nothing saves you from mediocrity.

Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been pleased to place us in here; wherein, to check our over-confidence and presumption, we might, by every day's experience, be made sensible of our short-sightedness, and liableness to error.

There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.