Today we've learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists. — Lionel Richie Copy Share Image
In the age of mediocrity and clones, John Stowell's uniqueness and originality are a breath of fresh air. I love playing with… — Paul Horn Copy Share Image
“Until you press the switch button of the light in your room on, you shall always have light in your room and… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets… — John H. Vandenberg Copy Share Image
It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Gary Sinise and I go the furthest back of the Steppenwolf people; we were both saved from academic mediocrity as sophomores by… — Jeff Perry Copy Share Image
“Patton hated and dreaded mediocrity. A few days before his death he wrote to Robert P. Patterson, who had succeeded Mr. Stimson… — Ladislas Farago Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
I am a proud, gay person of color and I will not be intimidated into mediocrity or legislated into conformity! — Eugene Lee Yang Copy Share Image
The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly. — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It was the supreme expressionof the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position. — Leon Trotsky (1879_1940 Copy Share Image
“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity trust upon them.” — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
I'm an intensely competitive guy who is driven by the idea that accepting mediocrity or accepting defeat is not the way you… — John W. Thompson Copy Share Image
Don't be intimidated by other peoples opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens. — George Lois Copy Share Image
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. — Scott Alexander Copy Share Image
You can’t talk mediocrity and expect to have victory. You are prophesying your future. If you want a shift to occur, you’ve… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“Always aspire to mediocrity first. If you can do that, you’ll find you’re always moving up in life.” — Magen Toole Copy Share Image
The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Change makers take risks and are ready to die for excellence than to give excuses and live for mediocrity.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The Beatles never got through to all ages, nor did Elvis Presley, or any of the other monuments of mediocrity that we've… — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged. — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity. — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. — Frederick E. Crane Copy Share Image
When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Fine is the very definition of mediocrity. It's what's polite. It's what's socially acceptable. We need to live brighter and deeper than… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
