Mediocrity Quotes

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

We live in an age 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.

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.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

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

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

Good behavior is the last refuge of 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.

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

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

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

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.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

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.

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.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.