Mediocrity Quotes - Page 10

• Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

  Criss Jami

  People, Creative, Intimidation

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.122, Criss Jami

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• The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily.

  Eddie McGuire

  Culture, Defeat, Accepting

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• I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

  Dick Cavett

  Thinking, Age

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• The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous... they ought to be abolished.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Bazaars, Useless, Exhibitions

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• How often have we all come to that crucial point in a painting where it is practically 'begging' us to stop before we ruin it? We have all had that experience and we risk failure, or at the least mediocrity, if we ignore the voice in our art.

  Richard Schmid

  Art, Voice, Risk

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• The one quality which sets one man apart from another- the key which lifts one to every aspiration while others are caught up in the mire of mediocrity- is not talent, formal education, nor intellectual brightness - it is self-discipline. With self-discipline all things are possible. Without it, even the simplest goal can seem like the impossible dream.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Dream, Men, Keys

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• A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Civilization, Pyramids

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Caution is the path to mediocrity.

  Frank Herbert

  Path, Caution

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.372, Penguin

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• Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Strong, Communism, Weak

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.132, AK Press

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• Why is it that when a baby is born, we often refer to him or her as 'the miracle of life' but then we accept mediocrity for our own lives? Where along the way did we lose sight of the miracle that WE are?

  Hal Elrod

  Baby, Thinking, Sight

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Aug 19, 2011

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• Your entire life begins to change the day that you decide you will no longer accept mediocrity for yourself. When you decide that TODAY is the most important day of your life, and that NOW matters more than any other time, because it is who you're becoming in every moment, based on the choices you're making and the actions you're taking, that is determining who and where you are going to be for the rest of your life.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, Choices, Important

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jul 05, 2013

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• When you value your integrity at the highest level, living alignment with your word and following through with your commitments no matter what, there are no limits to what you can create for your life. However, when you make excuses, justify doing what easiest, and choose the path of least resistance, you will live a life of mediocrity, frustration and regret. Live with integrity as if your life depended on it, because it does.

  Hal Elrod

  Regret, Integrity, Commitment

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• We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Psychology, Jargon, Praise

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• I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.

  Peter Shaffer

  Champion, Saint, World

  "Fictional character: Antonio Salieri". "Amadeus", www.imdb.com. 1984.

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• That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and inhibiting, this is what is as true as it is distressing.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Reign, Becoming, Triumphant

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• To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Writing, Men, Genius

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

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• Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.

  C. K. Prahalad

  Business, Goal, Host

  "Strategy as Stretch and Leverage" by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, hbr.org. March/April 1993.

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• There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.

  Anton Chekhov

  Vapid, Useless, Virtue

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• How sad that we often diminish our best gifts by struggling valiantly to develop in someone else's area of ability. It is better to focus on your uniqueness and do that with excellence than to end up with mediocrity in several areas.

  Dan Miller

  Struggle, Focus, Excellence

  Dan Miller (2007). “48 Days to the Work You Love”, p.77, B&H Publishing Group

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• When we are placed in a set of circumstances where we have to take initiative and be creative, some of us find it hard to transition. Those people have been trained not to think but to obey orders. They are slaves to the training, unconsciously pledging allegiance to the average. Mentally they recite from the manual of mediocrity.

  T. D. Jakes

  Thinking, Average, Order

  T. D. Jakes (2014). “Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.

  James C. Collins

  Signatures, Inconsistency

  "The office maverick" by Bill Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2008.

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• It is not that we had any unfair knowledge that other people didn't have, it is just that we did our homework. People just don't want to believe that anyone can break away from the crowd and rise above mediocrity.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Believe, People, Crowds

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• By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

  Charles Saatchi

  Taken, Genius, Talent

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• For every person seeking greatness, there are hundreds more charged with safeguarding mediocrity.  If you want to be wealthy, stop taking financial advice from broke people.

  Randy Gage

  Greatness, People, Advice

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• Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Pals, Matter, Youth

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story”, p.18, Granta Books

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