Quotes by Mediocrity Trying to be cool is the easiest path to mediocrity Terry Crews mediocritypathtrying Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity Theodosius Dobzhansky mediocrityintellectualanswers The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. Thomas Carlyle republicmediocrityworld He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word. Thomas Mann honorablemediocritymediocre But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation. Tom Robbins mediocritysoulrunning Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating. Tom Robbins common-sensemediocritymind We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174 Tom Robbins stakesmediocrityrise-above The height of mediocrity is still low. Vanna Bonta heightmediocritylows Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it. Vincent Van Gogh mediocrityflowerway 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. Vladimir Nabokov bathsmediocritygroups It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper. W. Somerset Maugham mediocritydoetoo-late Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best. Walter Darby Bannard mediocrityrapart Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. Warren G. Bennis mediocrityexcellenceteacher You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces. Will Self force-fieldsmediocritypersonality Being realistic is the quickest path to mediocrity Will Smith being-realmediocritypath Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What's the point of being realistic? I'm going to do it. It's done. It's already done. The second I decide it's done, it's already done. Will Smith being-realmediocritydone 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. William E. Gladstone mediocritypoetsuccessful 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. William Hurt mediocrityenergyinspiration Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity. William Hurt mediocritysuccessfulfame Regulators are power-lusting mediocrities. Yaron Brook regulatorsmediocritylust«678910111213141516»
