mediocrity

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

We live in an age of mediocrity.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

I shall be in Paris in two days. Well, all is finished. The waves ofhuman mediocrity rise to the sky and they will engulf the refuge whosedams I open. Ah! courage leaves me, my heart breaks! O Lord, pity theChristian who doubts, the sceptic who would believe, the convict oflife embarking alone in the night, under a sky no longer illumined bythe consoling beacons of ancient faith.

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

Start lifting your brand off the ground with an excelling mentality becoming best at what you do. You can't afford to be an average person although you may have begun from a level below average

To be alone with myself in the space of silence is horrifying, for I know with the utmost certainty that in that space I will hear the very things that I constantly use the clamor to drown out. And so the question becomes, how long can I keep up all the noise?

It drives me crazy who quickly the great ones get canonized. 'Blah-blah-blah is such a terrible loss.' Does that mean that the death of one mediocre slob is not as terrible? Do fags have to be geniuses to justify living?

Compromise is a sign you'll pass on your way to mediocrity.