Mediocrity Quotes - Page 12

The way that I am now, I don't want to accept mediocrity. I don't want to accept the easy road.

We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.

You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

When Americans decry our politicians, we must remember that ultimately, politicians reflect us. When we demand more than mediocrity - and the passing comforts it bestows - we will certainly attain it. One hopes and prays it doesn't take an historic crisis for us to demand and reward excellence in public service.

The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.

Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a genre is for satirizing, unless you know how to do it, there are no guarantees.

An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.

Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be relevant. I just couldn't be a bystander.

Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt—it never comes off.

... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we owe God or nature a death, but nature will collect anyway, and we certainly owe mediocrity nothing, whatever collectivity it purports to advance or at least represent.

Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.

It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.

Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you’re not failing from time to time, you’re not pushing yourself. And if you’re not pushing yourself, you’re coasting.

At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe.

The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily.

Think you are weak, think you lack what it takes, think you will lose, think you are second class - think this way and you are doomed to mediocrity.

Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions.

Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.

As a homosexual, my job is simply to sodomize mediocrity.

Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.

Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.

Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

Will I allow my fear to bind me to mediocrity?