Mediocrity Quotes - Page 14

• We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to sort through than ever, too.

  Michael J. Gelb

  People, Junk, Garbage

  Michael J. Gelb (2009). “How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day”, p.43, Dell

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• The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous... they ought to be abolished.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Bazaars, Useless, Exhibitions

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• Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.

  C. K. Prahalad

  Business, Goal, Host

  "Strategy as Stretch and Leverage" by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, hbr.org. March/April 1993.

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• Mediocrity is underrated.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Underrated

  "Mary-Louise Parker: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2010.

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• Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

  Criss Jami

  People, Creative, Intimidation

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.122, Criss Jami

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• No one will ever follow you down the street if you're carrying a banner that says, "Onward toward mediocrity."

  Martin de Maat

  Banner, Streets, Ifs

  "A Conversation with Martin de Maat". The Monthly Aspectarian, August 1998.

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• How often have we all come to that crucial point in a painting where it is practically 'begging' us to stop before we ruin it? We have all had that experience and we risk failure, or at the least mediocrity, if we ignore the voice in our art.

  Richard Schmid

  Art, Voice, Risk

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• The one quality which sets one man apart from another- the key which lifts one to every aspiration while others are caught up in the mire of mediocrity- is not talent, formal education, nor intellectual brightness - it is self-discipline. With self-discipline all things are possible. Without it, even the simplest goal can seem like the impossible dream.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Dream, Men, Keys

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• A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Genius, World, Talent

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• There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Century, Bureaucracy, Committees

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• I've relaxed my feelings about other companies performing my works. I have never in principle been against my ballets being danced by other companies. Rather, it is that we lack the time, space and money to insure that they are done well. To me, the only sin is mediocrity.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Sin

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• An achievement-oriented culture is very pro-employee - it's so much more fun than one that isn't. Excellence is a tremendous amount of fun; mediocrity is not.

  Kip Tindell

  Fun, Smart, Achievement

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• Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Mechanization

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• If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Impact, Law

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• Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.

  Ayn Rand

  Loneliness, Achievement, Mind

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.348, Penguin

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• Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Risk, Want

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Dec 02, 2016

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• If I had to give you one piece of advice, it would be this: don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do. Seek out people who aren’t afraid of making mistakes and who, therefore, do make mistakes. Because of that, their work often isn’t recognized, but they are precisely the kind of people who change the world and, after many mistakes, do something that will transform their own community completely.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mistake, People, Giving

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2010.

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• Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a loser in life.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Motivational, Sports, Creativity

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• At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe.

  Eric Chaisson

  Special, Groups, Inventory

  Eric Chaisson, Lola Judith Chaisson (2007). “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos”, p.90, Columbia University Press

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• The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Men, Hopeless

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.114, Courier Corporation

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• I am incapable of mediocrity.

  Serge Gainsbourg

  Pride, Incapable

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• If a Christian is not willing to rise early and work late, to expend greater effort in diligent study and faithful work, that person will not change a generation. Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the result of never getting tired.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Tired

  J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.119, Moody Publishers

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• Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Tired, Spiritual Leadership, Fatigue

  J. Oswald Sanders (2008). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.119, Moody Publishers

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• Crimes can be redeemed, but nothing saves you from mediocrity.

  Juan Villoro

  Crime, Redeemed

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• It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

  Joseph Cook

  Talent, Tact, Thrive

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