Mediocrity Quotes - Page 9

• Nothing is more expensive than mediocrity.

  J. Irwin Miller

  Expensive

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• This generation, our generation of people who benefited, must always be the pioneers who look to younger people and say mediocrity is not accommodated in what we do.

  Trevor Manuel

  Our Generation, People, This Generation

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• The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people.

  Colin Powell

  Successful, Thinking, People

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• In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Greatness, Risk, Strive

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• Mediocrity is not worth the trip.

  Sergio Marchionne

  Growth, Personal Growth

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• Your woman knows your weaknesses better than anybody. She knows where you will falter and give up. She knows the degree of mediocrity you will settle for. And, she knows your true capacity as a full man, a man of free consciousness and love. Her gift, if she is a good woman, is to test you with her darkest moods, over and over and over, until your consciousness is unperturbed by feminine challenge, and you are able to pervade her with your love, just as you are here to pervade the world. In response to your fearless consciousness, she will drench your world in love and light.

  David Deida

  Giving Up, Men, Light

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.237, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Sanctuary, Honest, Position

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• There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

  Honore de Balzac

  Envy, Pity, Masters

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• The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

  George Santayana

  Intellectual, World, Today

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2003). “The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1933-1936. Vol. 5. Book 5”, p.148, MIT Press

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• Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.

  Denise Levertov

  Imagination, Capacity, Abandon

  Denise Levertov (1973). “The poet in the world”, New Directions Publishing Corporation

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• Defending mediocrity is exhausting.

  Seth Godin

  Exhausting

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.32, Penguin

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• With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.

  Og Mandino

  Motivational, Dream, Goal

  Og Mandino (2011). “Og Mandino's University of Success: The Greatest Self-Help Author in the World Presents the Ultimate Success Book”, p.339, Bantam

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• If you have to fear something, fear mediocrity.

  Alex Bogusky

  Ifs

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• We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to sort through than ever, too.

  Michael J. Gelb

  People, Junk, Garbage

  Michael J. Gelb (2009). “How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day”, p.43, Dell

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• Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence.

  Paulo Coelho

  Light, Hands, Sun

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.31, Booklassic

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• Mediocrity is underrated.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Underrated

  "Mary-Louise Parker: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2010.

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• They filled us full of false illusions and promiscuity, and they led us down that class-less road of mediocrity.

  Ray Davies

  Sex, Class, Illusion

  Song: Did Ya

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• Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, "This is good enough for you." The audience, thrust into that familiar American mood of knowing something is wrong but not knowing what it is, unconsciously absorbs the insult and projects it back onto the mediocre performer in the form of inattention, rudeness and noise.

  Florence King

  Knowing, Singers, Noise

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.58, Macmillan

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• It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once a day, in order to stay alive. Often they lose their primal enjoyment of flavors and odors and textures to the point of complete unawareness. And if ever they question this progressive numbing-off, they shrug helplessly in the face of mediocrity everywhere. Bit by bit, hour by hour, they say, we are being forced to accept the not-so-good as the best, since there is little that is even good to compare it with.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Philosophy, Real, Medicine

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• You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

  Joe Klein

  Larger Than Life, Life Is, Politician

  "'Primary Colors' Author Joe Klein Talks About Political Truth and Fiction". "Crossfire" with Mary Matalin, Bill Press, www.cnn.com. May 2, 2000.

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• I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f--- out of me.

  Gillian Anderson

  Thinking, Scare, Ordinary

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• It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.

  Ned Rorem

  Rome, Evil, Perfect

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• Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Respect, Hate, Soul

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• Our party's most outstanding mediocrity.

  Leon Trotsky

  Party, Outstanding

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• The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.

  James C. Collins

  Signatures, Inconsistency

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