Mediocre Quotes - Page 10

• Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hatred, Morality, Christianity

  "The Will to Power " by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 685, Notebook W II 5. KGW VIII, 3.95-7, KSA 13.303-5, Spring 1888.

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• I've become absolutely convinced that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre or unsuccessful ones has little, if anything, to do with what they know or how smart they are; it has everything to do with how healthy they are.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Smart, Successful, Differences

  "The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business". Book by Patrick Lencioni, 2012.

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• Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.

  Tom Peters

  Rewards, Excellent

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness”, p.8, Vintage

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• Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

  Leo Tolstoy

  Useless, Knows

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Literature, Sometimes, Fairy

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• This was a really big opportunity. This script was even mediocre. The idea was great, but Jay came on with his guys made it great and very specific. It all came together well.

  Sean William Scott

  Opportunity, Ideas, Guy

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• Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men are recognized; they are marked by ideas which light up phenomena hitherto obscure and carry science forward.

  Claude Bernard

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so slavish before mediocre and treacherous leadership, so paranoid, deluded, lunatic?

  Philip Berrigan

  Lying, Tyrants, People

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• Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

  Ezra Pound

  Psychics, Empowerment

  Ezra Pound (1992). “A Walking Tour in Southern France: Ezra Pound Among the Troubadours”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if you had never set foot in Rwanda, Fossey, you pain-in-the-ass saint, I do not believe in prayers or souls, but I will pray for your soul, I will remember you for all of my days, in gratitude for that moment by the graves when all I felt was the pure, cleansing sadness of returning home and finding nothing but ghosts.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Gratitude, Strong, Prayer

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• Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe, I venerate the young, unknown geniuses who die in their teens, their souls shattered - delicate, phosphorescent glowworms that one must see to know they really did exist.

  Knut Hamsun

  Men, Soul, Genius

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• Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Eye, Excellence

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• Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average

  Alonzo King

  Average, Safety, Conformity

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• Eat, drink, and be merry is perfectly good in itself; nothing is wrong in it. But it is not enough. Soon you will get tired of it. One cannot just go on eating, drinking, and merrying. Soon the merry-go-round turns into a sorry-go-round - because it is repetitive. Only a very mediocre mind can go on being happy with it.

  Rajneesh

  Sorry, Drinking, Tired

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• The difference between a good picture and a mediocre picture is a question of millimeters - small, small differences - but it’s essential. I didn’t think there is such a big difference between photographers. Very little difference. But it is that little difference that counts, maybe

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Thinking, Differences, Essentials

  "Henri Cartier-Bresson: 'There Are No Maybes'". Interview with Sheila Turner-Seed, lens.blogs.nytimes.com. 1971.

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• If you don't have passion, everything you do will ultimately fizzle out or, at best, be mediocre. Is that how you want to live your life?

  Donald Trump

  Passion, Live Your Life, Want

  Donald J. Trump (2007). “Trump 101: The Way to Success”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

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• In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mistake, Artist, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.52, e-artnow

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• Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.

  Raymond Queneau

  Character, Historical, Important

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• To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

  Edith Piaf

  Impossible, Ifs

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• I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.

  Andy Richter

  Watches, Four Seasons, Three

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, tv.avclub.com. March 23, 2009.

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• Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.

  G. Willow Wilson

  Meaningful, People, Communicate

  G. Willow Wilson (2010). “The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam”, p.261, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.

  Moby

  Self, People, Musician

  Interview with Neil Strauss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2009.

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• I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre.

  Moby

  Records, Made, Hated

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• The bottom line:
  Earth is not mediocre.

  Marcelo Gleiser

  Earth, Lines, Bottom

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• Mediocre products with great sales teams always beat great products with mediocre sales teams.

  Donal Daly

  Team, Great Sales, Beats

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