Quotes about mediocrity
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. Friedrich Nietzsche
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 genius stealing
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals. Igor Stravinsky
mediocrity want failing
Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable. Harold Bloom
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
mediocrity myopia fields
As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. Hunter S. Thompson
mediocrity politician accepting
We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do. Joe Manchin
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 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 talent tact
It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes. Joseph Cook
mediocrity shirts spots
Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt—it never comes off. Haruki Murakami
mediocrity
To be popular one must be a mediocrity. Oscar Wilde
mediocrity wave tolerate
Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making. Laurence J. Peter
mediocrity genius tribute
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
mediocrity underrated
Mediocrity is underrated. Mary-Louise Parker
mediocrity form mediocre
To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.
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 enough saved
I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity. Terry Gilliam
mediocrity mediocre honorable
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word. Thomas Mann