Quotes by Mediocrity Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon. Denise Levertov mediocrity imagination capacity I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity. Dick Cavett mediocrity age thinking Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington. Dorothy Day mediocrity proud names The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily. Eddie McGuire mediocrity defeat culture A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity. Edgard Varese mediocrity eye men As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual. Elbert Hubbard mediocrity individual men Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity. Ellen Glasgow mediocrity winning numbers What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind. Ellen Glasgow mediocrity depressing way Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence. Elsa Maxwell intolerance independence mediocrity Democracy: a festival of mediocrity. Emile M. Cioran cynical mediocrity democracy Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does. Emmylou Harris mediocrity doe world At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe. Eric Chaisson mediocrity groups special Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you’re not failing from time to time, you’re not pushing yourself. And if you’re not pushing yourself, you’re coasting. Eric Zorn tickets mediocrity pushing The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence. Eric Thomas mediocrity shooting excellence 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. Ernst Lubitsch mediocrity said sometimes Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer. Eugene Ionesco mediocrity dangerous writing The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity. Ezra Pound mediocrity historical art Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, "This is good enough for you." The audience, thrust into that familiar American mood of knowing something is wrong but not knowing what it is, unconsciously absorbs the insult and projects it back onto the mediocre performer in the form of inattention, rudeness and noise. Florence King mediocrity singers knowing Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range. Francois de La Rochefoucauld range mediocrity mind Mechanization best serves mediocrity. Frank Lloyd Wright mechanization mediocrity «1234567891011»
