Mediocrity Quotes - Page 4

A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.

There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.

Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.

Trying to be cool is the easiest path to mediocrity

Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it.

I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.

Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

Never let the limitations or insecurities of others limit what is possible for you.

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.

Moderation assures mediocrity -- nice, safe. Mediocrity is for the mediocre -- simple, okay. The intense rule; the mediocre follow.

Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.

Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.

Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people.

I've known people who thought that reaching their potential would come from shoring up their weaknesses. But do you know what happens when you spend all your time working on your weaknesses and never developing your strengths? If you work really hard, you might claw your way all the way to mediocrity! But you'll never get beyond it.

Passionately protest mediocrity.

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.

We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.

Be the best, but get ready to be attacked. Only mediocrity is safe.