Mediocrity Quotes

The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.

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

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.

Everything about mediocrity kills me.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

We live in an age of mediocrity.

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.