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There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.
As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.
The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.
Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.
There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.
The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.
The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.
In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.
The mediocrity with which Africa has been ruled is responsible for its underdevelopment.
I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.
Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.
We often reward mediocrity because it is comforting. If they can do it, anyone can do it.
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
Mediocrity never goes away - but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it.
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.
Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.
I have a problem with honoring mediocrity in so many cases over teams that have great years.
You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.
The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.
Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something.
The way that I am now, I don't want to accept mediocrity. I don't want to accept the easy road.
There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.
Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.
Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.
The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.
A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.
You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.
If you want to earn a million bucks a year, eliminate mediocrity from your thinking and your life.
The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.
Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.