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Mediocrity Quotes - Page 9

No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.

No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Giving, Feelings, Mediocrity

Half talent is no talent.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
Mediocrity, Half, Talent

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Jean de la Bruyere
Mediocrity, Painting, Public Speaking

Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.

James C. Collins
Marketing, Mediocrity, Motivated

Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

Horace
Men, Poetry, Mediocrity
"Ars Poetica". Poem by Horace, Lines 372 - 373, c. 18 BC.

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

Honore de Balzac
Envy, Mediocrity, Pity

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

Henry David Thoreau
Boys, Age, Mediocrity

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

George Will
Political, Mediocrity, Politics
"Embracing Your Inner Mediocrity: Making Peace with Reality". Book by Vince Stone, 2009.

The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence.

Eric Thomas
Excellence, Mediocrity, Shooting

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge

Claude Bernard
Men, Mediocrity, Mediocre
Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.70, Courier Corporation

Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

C. S. Lewis
Heart, Mediocrity, Break

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

Benedict Cumberbatch
Mediocrity, Century, Bureaucracy

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

Anne Rice
Needs, Mediocrity, Literature

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

Allan Sloan
Gold, Mediocrity, Columns

'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?

Seth Godin
Long, Why Not, Mediocrity
Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.31, Penguin

You don't have to settle. It's a choice you get to make every day.

Seth Godin
Choices, Mediocrity, Settling

Defending mediocrity is exhausting.

Seth Godin
Mediocrity, Exhausting
Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.32, Penguin

There is no gap as wide as the one between mediocrity and genius.

Rutvik Oza
Genius, Mediocrity, Gaps

I love that the level of mediocrity rises.

Paula Scher
Mediocrity, Levels
Source: es.scribd.com

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

Oscar Wilde
Revenge, Mediocrity, World
Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.202, Courier Corporation

The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something.

Nicole Kidman
Trying, Mediocrity
Source: queenofthedesertfilm.com

A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.

Nicolas Chamfort
Ideas, Numbers, Mediocrity
"Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society". Book by Nicolas Chamfort, 1795.

Our party's most outstanding mediocrity.

Leon Trotsky
Party, Mediocrity, Outstanding

Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making.

Laurence J. Peter
Mediocrity, Wave, Tolerate

When I think of normality I think of mediocrity

Gillian Anderson
Thinking, Mediocrity, Think Of Me

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