Mediocrity Quotes - Page 23

• Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Strength, Military, Army

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• You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Perfect, Individuality, Monsters

  "Fictional character: Maurice Oboukhoff". "The Killing", www.imdb.com. 1956.

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• Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.

  James C. Collins

  Greatness, Differences, Leader

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• Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Greatness, Pay, Imitation

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• ... the major rule in the American belief system - that anyone can do anything ... is a lie that we have perpetuated, and it fosters mediocrity. Knowing what you're good at and doing even more of it creates excellence.

  M. J. Ryan

  Lying, Knowing, Excellence

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• I cannot live in mediocrity, content with merely knowing that there is more of God to experience and explore -and then do nothing about it. Truths that are not experienced are, in effect, more like theories than truths. Whenever God reveals truth to us He is inviting us into a divine encounter.

  Bill Johnson

  Knowing, Church, Encounters

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• I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity.

  Terry Gilliam

  Enough, Saved

  "Terry Gilliam’s Three-Reel Circus". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2009.

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• If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved.

  Seth

  Differences, People, Making A Difference

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• The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Ideas, Publicity, Minutes

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• Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

  Hugh Blair

  Men, Enjoyment

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• Go after what you want as if your life depended on it. Because it Does!

  Les Brown

  Doe, Want, Thinking Differently

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• Never let the limitations or insecurities of others limit what is possible for you.

  Hal Elrod

  Insecurity, Limiting Beliefs, Limits

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Nov 30, 2014

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• Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.

  Ann Richards

  Family, Doe, Cherish

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• Yes, I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him. Some appear to have it more than others only because they are aware of it more than others are, and the awareness or unawareness of it is what makes each one of them into masters or holds them down to mediocrity.

  Glenn Clark

  Believe, Men, Genius

  Glenn Clark (2008). “The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe”, p.12, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• You will not experience all life has to offer you or begin to experience life at its fullest as long as you are satisfied with mediocrity. You have to be disgusted with your current circumstances before your circumstances can change.

  Eric Thomas

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it's better to write a book that kind of sucks rather than no book at all, as you wait around to magically become Faulkner. No one is going to write your book for you and you can't write anybody's book but your own.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Book, Writing, Waiting

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• But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence.

  Price Pritchett

  Responsibility, Ethical Standards, Organization

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• There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity.

  Nnamdi Azikiwe

  Average, People, Care

  "My Odyssey: An Autobiography". Book by Nnamdi Azikiwe, 1970.

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• As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Apathy, Myopia, Fields

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.139, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Courage, Catholic, Let Down

  Song: Cristo E Liberazione, Album: Abba Pater

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• Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

  Harold Bloom

  Want, Failing, Prodigies

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• It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

  Richard Yates

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Richard Yates (2010). “Revolutionary Road”, p.60, Random House

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• But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it's hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.

  Banksy

  Artist, Self, Views

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• Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.

  Colin Powell

  Inspirational, Hate, Trying

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• Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Break, Humans

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