...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
When mediocrity becomes the accepted norm, excellence dies a painful death. — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
No one will ever follow you down the street if you're carrying a banner that says, Onward toward mediocrity. — Martin de Maat Copy Share Image
Be it at JNU or any institute, students want India to shine. They want the country to get rid of mediocrity and… — Vivek Agnihotri Copy Share Image
Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company… — Gary Player Copy Share Image
Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
People are born to be different. Yet most people spend their whole life trying to fit in and be the same as… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you’re not failing from time to time, you’re not pushing yourself. And if… — Eric Zorn Copy Share Image
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake. — Nelson Boswell Copy Share Image
Nietzsche should not be taken seriously as a political theorist, at least not at the level of his positive prescriptions. But the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van… — Frank Moore Colby 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
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
... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Like a weighted diver sinking in an oceanof mediocrity, under the pressure of men withgelatin eyes, rubber voices, spiral-shapedconvictions, non-committal souls and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Men in general are too material and do not make enough human contacts. If we search for the fundamentals which actually motivate… — Edward S. Jordan Copy Share Image
It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“There exist words of mediocrity, songs of mediocrity, and life lessons of mediocrity. Advice of mediocrity, books of mediocrity and companions of… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah 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
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
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
I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure -… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
