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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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Education in our family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre ... In this family of accomplished scholars, I was to become the academic black sheep. I performed adequately at high school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

Steven Chu

Brother, School, Sheep

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Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move.

Jean Giraudoux

Real, Moving, Leader

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To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

Elbert Hubbard

Greatness, Men, Compensation

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Establishing and maintaining clarity for yourself and what you want is the starting point for success. Thus, maintaining extraordinary clarity is necessary to achieve extraordinary success. The problem is that most people maintain a mediocre level of clarity, which inevitably leads to a mediocre level of success.

Hal Elrod

Thinking, People, Levels

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Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

Diane Keaton

Stars, Writing, Men

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I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.

Patrice O'Neal

Hate, Crowds, Hate Me

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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