Quotes about mediocrity
mediocrity genius birth
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities Cesare Lombroso
mediocrity culture defeat
The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily, Eddie McGuire
mediocrity century bureaucracy
There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee. Benedict Cumberbatch
mediocrity
We encourage one another in mediocrity. Charles Lamb
mediocrity useless vapid
There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue. Anton Chekhov
mediocrity application superiority
Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it. Baltasar Gracian
mediocrity individual sole
Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth. Boris Pasternak
mediocrity typical should
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. Bruce Henderson
mediocrity possession native
Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions. Blaise Pascal
mediocrity levels settling
For what level of mediocrity will you settle? Brandon Lee
mediocrity trouble heels
I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble. Courtney Love
mediocrity
Mediocrity is contextual. David Foster Wallace
mediocrity genius consideration
Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
mediocrity trouble enough
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. Claude Monet
mediocrity wonder settling
Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been. Debbi Fields
mediocrity
Will I allow my fear to bind me to mediocrity? Andy Stanley
mediocrity uniforms originality
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. John Dewey
mediocrity mechanization
Mechanization best serves mediocrity. Frank Lloyd Wright
mediocrity half talent
Half talent is no talent. Johann Kaspar Lavater
mediocrity genius immortal
There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
mediocrity politician accepting
We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do. Joe Manchin
mediocrity lines architecture
in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it. Ayn Rand
mediocrity tradition walks-of-life
Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition. George S. Patton
mediocrity signatures inconsistency
The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency. James C. Collins
mediocrity signatures inconsistency
The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.
mediocrity form mediocre
To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness. Friedrich Nietzsche
mediocrity sake majority
Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.
mediocrity may want
It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.
mediocrity tough year
There's just a lot of mediocrity out there. It's going to be real tough year for the committee.
mediocrity sometimes said
I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard. Ernst Lubitsch
mediocrity painting public-speaking
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. Jean de la Bruyere
mediocrity speech painting
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
mediocrity literature remarkable
Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity. H. L. Mencken