“No, this is easy-does-it shabby. I-know-who-I-am shabby. Persian-rug shabby.” — Susie Steiner Copy Share Image
To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Mediocrity is a pit that swallows people who have rested on seats of complacency for long.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Show me the person that calls another a fool, and I will prove the extent of his mediocrity. — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“What right have such men to represent Christianity—as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly?” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I am uncompromising to the point of huge dissension in the studio. And it's served me very well. My theory and my… — David Foster Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any problem with technology. Actually rewind that thought - there is a downside to affordable technology, and that's… — Don Letts Copy Share Image
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
“One of the most terrifying questions of all might be, ‘Will I unleash myself to live before death unleashes me from the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information.… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We offer them mediocrity while calling it magic. We offer them the illusion of intelligent software, seducing them into surrendering the task… — Larry Constantine Copy Share Image
When we are placed in a set of circumstances where we have to take initiative and be creative, some of us find… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The majority of people have successfully alienated themselves from change; they tediously arrange their lives into a familiar pattern, they give themselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I often ask myself: "What would Theodore Roosevelt do?" One can never know, of course. The ultimate contribution of consequential leaders is… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
Fear of success is far more dangerous than fear of failure, because the subconscious mind works to prevent that which it fears.… — Joe Tye Copy Share Image
I'm prepared to concede that stupidity does not help survival. One must after all understand not to poke a tiger with a… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
“Religion asks followers to believe in things nobody can see, however, animal activists ask people to see things they can prove. When… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. — John Suckling Copy Share Image
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired. — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
There is nothing worse than being mediocre at a whole bunch of different things. — Stephen A. Smith Copy Share Image
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
