Mediocrity Quotes - Page 7

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.

Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

Mediocrity is a hand-rail.

Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.

Regulators are power-lusting mediocrities.

When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish.

The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

No one will ever follow you down the street if you're carrying a banner that says, "Onward toward mediocrity."

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

Go after what you want as if your life depended on it. Because it Does!

We live in an age of mediocrity. Stars today are not the same stature as Bogie [Humphrey Bogart], James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart [James Stewart].

We often reward mediocrity because it is comforting. If they can do it, anyone can do it.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous... they ought to be abolished.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.