Quotes by Mediocrity That's probably one of my biggest gripes with the Internet - that it settles for mediocrity and disinformation, which puts all information on the same level. Everything has the same value, whether it's Albert Einstein speaking, or [email protected]. Harlan Ellison mediocrityinformationlevels Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable. Harold Bloom mediocrityfailingwant ... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we owe God or nature a death, but nature will collect anyway, and we certainly owe mediocrity nothing, whatever collectivity it purports to advance or at least represent. Harold Bloom collectivitymediocritywant One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. Harriet Beecher Stowe mediocrityliteraturetrying Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity. H. L. Mencken mediocrityremarkableliterature Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity. Henry Fuseli pursuitmediocrityperfection Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable. Henry Thomas Buckle mediocritygeniuschess Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity. Henry Ford prosperityworst-enemymediocrity It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor. Friedrich Nietzsche mediocrityand-lovemay Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt—it never comes off. Haruki Murakami shirtsspotsmediocrity There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy. Honore de Balzac pityenvymediocrity Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man. Hugh Blair enjoymentmediocritymen I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be relevant. I just couldn't be a bystander. Howard Schultz starbucksbystandersmediocrity Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men. Horace mediocritypoetmen Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers. Horace mediocritypoetrymen As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. Hunter S. Thompson myopiamediocrityapathy Mediocrity borrows, genius steals. Igor Stravinsky mediocritystealinggenius Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity. Indro Montanelli mediocritytriumphdemocracy The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed. Henry David Thoreau mediocrityageboys It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us. Isaac D'Israeli mediocrityexcellencelying«1234567891011»
