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• Divine souls suffer violent opposition from mediocre minds.

  Frank Layden

  Soul, Mind, Suffering

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• How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?

  Tom Robbins

  Disappointment, Risk, Suffering

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• If we [Microsoft Corporation] weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis.

  Bill Gates

  Fall, People, Would Be

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• Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Majority, Mediocrity, Sake

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• How can we help a child change from undependable to dependable, from a mediocre student to a capable student, from someone who won't amount to very much to someone who will count for something. The answer is at once both simple and complicated: We treat a child as if he already is what we would like him to become.

  Haim Ginott

  Children, Simple, Answers

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• I was making sure everyone knew Crabtree was a mediocre receiver. And when you try the best corner in the game with a mediocre receiver, that's what happens. I appreciate that he knows that now.

  Richard Sherman

  Games, Nfl, Appreciate

  "Richard Sherman rips 49ers' Michael Crabtree" by Eric Branch, www.sfgate.com. January 19, 2014.

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• High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.

  Guy Kawasaki

  People, Weakness, Achiever

  Guy Kawasaki (2015). “The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything”, p.145, Penguin

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• Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.

  Stephen King

  People, Cost, Fiction

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.367, Simon and Schuster

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• That’s the problem with fiction — or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks into you, until you find yourself concerned for the fates of characters who aren’t even fully convincing.

  Charles McGrath

  Character, Fate, Finding Yourself

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• 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]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men astoundingly mediocre, and even less than mediocre. That is to say, modern science, the root and symbol of our actual civilization, finds a place for the intellectually commonplace man and allows him to work therein with success.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Civilization, Roots

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of hard work, effort, and perseverance toward their goals.

  Zig Ziglar

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Odds

  Zig Ziglar, Tom Ziglar (2012). “Born to Win: Find Your Success Code”, p.27, AudioInk

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• Moderation assures mediocrity -- nice, safe. Mediocrity is for the mediocre -- simple, okay. The intense rule; the mediocre follow.

  Dave Draper

  Nice, Simple, Mediocrity

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• When you know too much information and you acquire it too easily, you tend to either use it in disagreeable ways, out of vanity, or you tend to be indiscriminate about it. I mean, in the old days, it was tricky, you had to go to various encyclopedias, you had to go to the library, maybe spend a day there, whatever. But in the end, if you found something, it was really exciting. Now you hit a couple of buttons and you get some information. Which, by the way, is almost always presented in that same goddamn mediocre style that characterizes the Internet for me. It is slightly deadening.

  Norman Mailer

  Couple, Mean, Vanity

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• I remembered that throughout my growing up and education and pursuing my dreams and desires, going into acting, and, of course, getting through Yale University and on and on and on, that being average, being mediocre was not an option that you should be proud of.

  Angela Bassett

  Dream, Growing Up, Yale

  Source: www.hollywood.com

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• Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service.

  Brian Tracy

  Clever, Average, People

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• Hung-up women can't produce anything but mediocre art, and there ain't no room for mediocre art.

  Patti Smith

  Art, Rooms, Produce

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.

  Billy Cannon

  Struggle, Survival, Rolling

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• God, do I hate my little fat tits. You ever pinch your little meat tits and wish you were dead? You ever just stand naked in the mirror. "You little fat-titted mediocre failure!" You ever do that for 3 hours on New Year's Eve.

  Jim Norton

  Funny, New Year, Hate

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• Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.

  Sam Altman

  Talking, Decision, Never Quit

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• People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.

  George Allen

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

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• I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.

  Aaron Sorkin

  America, Goal, Conservative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I actually live a very mediocre lifestyle. So I decided to step back and do things not just for the sake of doing them, but because I believe in them and I want to do them.

  Mila Kunis

  Believe, Want, Sake

  Interview with James Franco, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2012.

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• One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.

  Michael Caine

  Comedy, Problem, Great Things

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 18, 2003.

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• One wouldn't want to say that what makes a good writer is the number of books that the writer wrote because you could write a whole number of bad books. Books that don't work, mediocre books, or there's a whole bunch of people in the pulp tradition who have done that. They just wrote... and actually they didn't write a whole bunch of books, they just wrote one book many times.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Writing, Numbers

  Big Think Interview with Andrew Dermont, November 10, 2010.

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