Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.
Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.
When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre.
According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone else' is a category that comprises the mediocre and the conformist, the boring and the suburban. The goal of all right-thinking people should be to mark themselves off from the crowd and 'stand out' in whatever way their talents allow.
There is nothing scarier than a mediocre man with a mission.
To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.
It was a mixed bag pretty much all week. A lot of really, really good stuff out there, some mediocre and some bad.
It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.
I don't think there is any such thing as a song that is completely great or good. A lot of songs becomes massive hits that are just mediocre, and other times there are incredible songs that never get anywhere and you always wonder why.
I don't have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.
Even a mediocre idea created and presented with passion can change the world.
It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love and for comfort and it lives on the lips of the child crying for his mother. It is the song of the lover in need of her loved one, the raving of the lunatic supplicant petitioning his God...The love song is the sound of our endeavors to become God-like, to rise up and above the earthbound and the mediocre.
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