Mediocrity Quotes - Page 6

Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.

It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.

Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.

Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity

I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity.

There is no greater path to mediocrity in life than trying to be realistic.

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.

Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity.

Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

Pumpkin pie is a living symbol of mediocrity. The best pumpkin pie you ever ate wasn't all that much different from the worst pumpkin pie you ever ate.

Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.

If you have to fear something, fear mediocrity.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.

In business, what distinguishes leaders from laggards and greatness from mediocrity is the ability to uniquely imagine what could be.

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to sort through than ever, too.

It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.

I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.