Mediocrity Quotes - Page 13

• I don't think there's any problem with technology. Actually rewind that thought - there is a downside to affordable technology, and that's mediocrity. I mean just 'cause you can afford it don't mean you can do it.

  Don Letts

  Mean, Technology, Thinking

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• My advice for aspiring writers is threefold.First, read as much as possible, both within and outside the genre you arem working in. By reading you hone your internal ear for style. Second, write. Everything comes down to it; unless you write, you are not a writer. Third, submit your work. But - stop chasing every seductive new market out there, and stop trying to write for the tastes of specific established professional markets and editors. That way lies mediocrity and eventual
  dissolution of your true voice, no matter how embryonic or pronounced it may be now.

  Vera Nazarian

  Lying, Reading, Writing

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• I love that the level of mediocrity rises.

  Paula Scher

  Levels

  Source: es.scribd.com

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• I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.

  Courtney Love

  Trouble, Heels

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

  William Hurt

  Successful, Fame, Strive

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• For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

  Brandon Lee

  Levels, Settling

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• Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What's the point of being realistic? I'm going to do it. It's done. It's already done. The second I decide it's done, it's already done.

  Will Smith

  Being Real, Done, Realistic

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• Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not afraid of total failure because I don't think that will happen. I'm not afraid of success because that beats the hell out of failure. It's being in the middle that scares me.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Thinking, Scare, Hell

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• We live in an age of mediocrity. Stars today are not the same stature as Bogie [Humphrey Bogart], James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart [James Stewart].

  Lauren Bacall

  Age

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

  Kevin Spacey

  Elephants, Rooms, Elephant In The Room

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• The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something.

  Nicole Kidman

  Trying

  Source: queenofthedesertfilm.com

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• . . .nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.

  Madeline Miller

  Dirty, Eclipse, Stains

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• If it wasn't for this person's privacy, I'd be able to talk pretty freely about this subject on a personal level. The record's about not her. It's about my struggles through years of dealing with the aftermath of lost love and longing and just mediocrity and just bad news, like life stuff. And in the [record], where the title comes from, the lyrics are actually a conversation between me and another girl, not this Emma character.

  Justin Vernon

  Girl, Lost Love, Struggle

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.

  Boris Pasternak

  Individual, Sole, Concern

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• The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he calls 'magnetic,' and does not value, because he sees no need for, originality or profundity, a fine culture or a wide knowledge.

  James Bryce

  Needs, Culture, American Voters

  James Bryce (1920). “The American Commonwealth: Vol. 1: The National Government”, p.43, Jazzybee Verlag

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

  Jeb Bush

  Teacher, Kids, Tactics

  "Jeb Bush Speaks Out". Education Next Interview, educationnext.org. November 12, 2014.

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• I'm prepared to concede that stupidity does not help survival. One must after all understand not to poke a tiger with a stick. But intelligence leads to curiosity, and curiosity has never been a quality that helps one pour his or her genes into the pool. The truth must lie somewhere between. Whatever the reason, it is clearly mediocrity, at best, that lives and breeds.

  Jack McDevitt

  Lying, Stupidity, Survival

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• But if it's tolerable mediocrity, and you're like, 'Well, you know it could be worse. At least I'm getting paid.' Then you wind up in a job that is slowly killing your soul and you're allowing that to happen. Comfort can be a very, very dangerous thing.

  Tim Ferriss

  Jobs, Wind, Soul

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• The mediocrity with which Africa has been ruled is responsible for its underdevelopment.

  Raila Odinga

  Responsible, Underdevelopment, Has Beens

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• It's true he was a sinner. But don't pass so final a judgement. Have pity in your heart and don't forget that he may yet be an Augustine, while you remain just another mediocrity.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Heart, Judgement, Saint

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• Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

  David Bowie

  Men, Interesting, Music And Life

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• As a homosexual, my job is simply to sodomize mediocrity.

  Bradford Cox

  Jobs, Homosexual

  "Bradford Cox Talks "Shocking" Minneapolis Show" by Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. March 7, 2012.

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• I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.

  Ernst Lubitsch

  Sometimes, Said, Standards

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At independence Kenya's economic indicators were equal to those of South Korea, but 45 years down the road, Korea's economy is 40 times that of Kenya. The mediocrity of leadership is across the continent .

  Raila Odinga

  Korea, Years, Independence

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• Love It, is to increase by forgetting. It's escape through a single being to mediocrity of all other. It's one more for trying to be less. It's become like everyone else in the belief that we become as a person. It is giving appointment to happiness in the palace of chance.

  Abel Bonnard

  Giving, Trying, Palaces

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