Mediocrity Quotes

473 Mediocrity quotes by 345 unique authors

I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is… — Alfred de Vigny
We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those… — Peter Drucker
... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we owe God or… — Harold Bloom
The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work. — Ayn Rand
We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174 — Tom Robbins
Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and… — Jasper Fforde
Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt—it never comes off. — Haruki Murakami
You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality. — Sarah Vowell
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity. — Oscar Wilde
Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius. — Oscar Wilde
Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch. — Pope John Paul II
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three.… — Joseph Heller
Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities. — William James
Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens. — George Lois
What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking… — Russell Brand
A Christian has no business being satisfied with mediocrity. He's supposed to reach for the stars. Why not? He's not on his own anymore. He… — Catherine Marshall
There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim… — Katherine Dunn
It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written… — Ira Glass
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word. — Thomas Mann
Mediocrity is contextual. — David Foster Wallace
We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who… — Christopher Hitchens
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 the Persian carpet… — Tom Robbins
Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable. — Harold Bloom
Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are… — Isaac Asimov
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing… — Alain de Botton

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