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Mediocrity Quotes

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

Live Age Think Mediocrity I Think

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

World Mediocrity More Need Any Bets

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

Scott Alexander

Good Losing Evil Mediocrity Cheating

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Man Mediocrity Enjoyment Only

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Fulton J. Sheen

Jealousy Genius Mediocrity Tribute

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

Mediocrity Nothing Way Beyond Either

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

Generation Mediocrity Taste Fresh

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

Isaac D'Israeli

Mediocrity Taste Us Excellent Lies

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.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Live Mediocrity Without Bottom State

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Politics Greatness Mediocrity Needed

Acceptance and assimilation, you know, breeds mediocrity and perhaps an even more sheep-like conformism in terms of what kind of music you're supposed to listen to if you're gay... What are you supposed to look like? What's your body supposed to look like?

John Cameron Mitchell

Music Acceptance Mediocrity You Look

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Genius Mediocrity Dangerous Republic

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

Rutherford B. Hayes

Mediocrity Virtue Vice Extreme Which

I have a problem with honoring mediocrity in so many cases over teams that have great years.

Great Mediocrity Problem Over Years

Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.

Change Mediocrity Result Situation

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

Mediocrity Being Ignored Wonderful

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

Mediocrity Journalism Shame Stagnant

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

Water Wine Mediocrity Real Original

In any area of human endeavour, there is going to be mediocrity. You're going to find people who get money that they shouldn't get.

Money People Mediocrity You Find

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Life Art Mediocrity Alike Sort Any

Everything about mediocrity kills me.

Me Mediocrity Everything About

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

Patrick Kavanagh

Name Mediocrity Malice Only Another

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

Great Me Stylish Mediocrity Why Try

We humans can get used to anything. It really is remarkable. The problem is that we often use this glorious ability of ours to stay stuck in mediocrity. Oh, the years we waste adapting to lousy marriages, soul-sucking jobs, being friends with people who are rude to waitresses.

People Mediocrity Friends Problem

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