Mediocrity Quotes - Page 8

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

Caution is the path to mediocrity.

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further.

They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity.

Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What's the point of being realistic? I'm going to do it. It's done. It's already done. The second I decide it's done, it's already done.

Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.

Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.

It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.

It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range.

The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity ...and you've got it made.

I've relaxed my feelings about other companies performing my works. I have never in principle been against my ballets being danced by other companies. Rather, it is that we lack the time, space and money to insure that they are done well. To me, the only sin is mediocrity.

Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses and become huge. Of course, all of you think that one describes you...hence the delusion necessary to push on.

Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity.

Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.