I just cannot take mediocrity. I just cannot take it on…

The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human…

— William Hurt

I want to dominate a little more, just be a level beyond everyone else. I expect that from myself.

— Andre Iguodala

I think if we could just level the playing field in life as much as possible, then we'd all be in a much better…

— David Furnish

Never hate on someone who is much lower than you cause then you just amount to their level.

— Anonymous

I try to be as humble as possible, but I'm just on another level. That's all there is to it.

— Matt Riddle

I love that the level of mediocrity rises.

— Paula Scher

When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity.

— Maximillian Degenerez

Make sure you're on my level if you think you wanna go toe-to-toe with me 'cause you cannot. Let's make that very clear.

— Trina

Children without access to quality early education programs start kindergarten with an 18-month disadvantage, and that gap continues to widen. By the time they…

— Mark Shriver

If I cannot be the best or operate at the best highest level, then I need to go away.

— Dolph Ziggler

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

— Herman Melville

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

— Max Beerbohm

It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and…

— Edward Steichen

Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

— Arthur Conan Doyle