Mediocrity Quotes

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

The only sin is mediocrity.

I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.

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.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.