Mediocrity Quotes

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

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

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

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

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

We live in an age of mediocrity.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.

I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.

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.