Mediocrity Quotes - Page 20

• We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.

  Herbert Hoover

  Mean, Men, Modern Life

  Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”, C. Scribner's sons

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• When I imagine God creating each one of us and planting a purpose deep in our hearts, I never imagine that purpose being mediocrity.

  Katie Davis

  Heart, Creating, Purpose

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• I feel connected to every other creative element because I have a creative soul. My isolation is not through the work it's through not being able to connect with mediocrity. When I was younger I was a punk and then when I got married and had children I became a mother. They are the only two memberships to any clan-like cultures that I have ever embraced.

  Lisa Gerrard

  Mother, Children, Creative

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• America's the great conundrum and the great dream and the great fascination: the new land, the new world, the new temple, the new city, and the great mess. The most handguns, bombs, weaponry, violence, the cop of the world etcetera. All the contradictions. Mediocrity versus something like indigenous jazz, one of the most evolved sophisticated musical forms on the planet.

  Anne Waldman

  Dream, Land, Cities

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I made a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to strive towards mediocrity. I completely abandoned the idea of grandeur and importance, and I wanted to be mediocre.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Ideas, Years, Decision

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.

  Patrick Kavanagh

  Men, Expression, Sticks

  Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”

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• Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Powerful, Passion

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• Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

  Henry Fuseli

  Perfection, Pursuit, Pursuit Of Perfection

  Henry Fuseli (1831). “Lectures. Aphorisms. A history of art in the schools of Italy”, p.111

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• Man's proper stature is not one of mediocrity, failure, frustration, or defeat, but one of achievement, strength, and nobility. In short, man can and ought to be a hero.

  Mike Mentzer

  Hero, Frustration, Men

  Mike Mentzer, John Little (2002). “High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way”, Mcgraw-hill

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• I constantly get out of my comfort zone. Looking cool is the easiest way to mediocrity. The coolest guy in my high school ended up working at a car wash. Once you push yourself into something new, and whole new world of opportunities opens up. But you might get hurt. In fact you WILL get hurt. But amazingly when you heal - you are somewhere you've never been.

  Terry Crews

  Hurt, School, Opportunity

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 28, 2012.

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• To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.

  Michael Eisner

  Way, Another Way

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• You can’t think thoughts of mediocrity and expect to excel. The two don’t go together.

  Joel Osteen

  Thinking, Two, Together

  Twitter post from Jan 7, 2014

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• Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Mastery, Buisness

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• Will I allow my fear to bind me to mediocrity?

  Andy Stanley

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.77, Multnomah

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• That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Charity, Selflessness, Philanthropy

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

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• Be the best, but get ready to be attacked. Only mediocrity is safe.

  Paulo Coelho

  Safe, Being The Best, Ready

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• Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.

  Brian Tracy

  Commitment, Acceptance, Excellence

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Successful Selling”, p.11, Jaico Publishing House

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• I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Trying, Comfort

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.234, Penguin

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• I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.

  Ani DiFranco

  Army, Hours, Finest

  Song: Not So Soft

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• I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.

  Bill Veeck

  Leadership, Sports, Mind

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• After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by the force of mediocrity, which can easily master enough of the star techniques to produce inoffensive personalities and enough of the rational vocabulary to create the sounds of competence.

  John Ralston Saul

  Stars, Vocabulary, Personality

  John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.532, Simon and Schuster

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• The mediocrity principle simply states that you aren't special. The universe does not revolve around you; this planet isn't privileged in any unique way; your country is not the perfect product of directed, intentional fate; and that tuna sandwich you had for lunch was not plotting to give you indigestion.

  PZ Myers

  Country, Fate, Unique

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• Indifference to love or hate is sitting on the fence between the two, refusing to engage either one of them. Indifference, if it had its own way, would prefer to step away from the whole struggle between love and hate, to walk away from the only real game in the world and wallow in its own mediocrity.

  Mark R. Woodward

  Love, Hate, Real

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• Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.

  Og Mandino

  Miracle, Enthusiasm, Accomplish

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• You have to have a habitual vision of greatness ... you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You won't confuse your financial security with your personal integrity, you won't confuse your success with your greatness or your prosperity with your magnanimity ... believe in fact that living is connected to giving.

  Cornel West

  Integrity, Believe, Greatness

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