Mediocrity Quotes - Page 17

• Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses and become huge. Of course, all of you think that one describes you...hence the delusion necessary to push on.

  Marc Maron

  Thinking, Genius, May

  Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal”, p.204, Spiegel & Grau

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• Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. The world doesn’t need any more gray. On the other hand, we can’t get enough color. Mediocrity is nobody’s goal and perfection shouldn’t be either. We’ll never be perfect. But remember these three P’s: Passion + Persistence = Possibility.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Passion, Persistence, Hands

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• There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements. Most of us are inherently lazy. We would rather play than work. We would rather loaf than work...But it is work that spells the difference in the life of a man or woman. It is stretching our minds and utilizing the skills of our hands that lift us from mediocrity.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Dream, Work, Reality

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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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• Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Genius, Chess, Bears

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• Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse.

  Arthur Koestler

  Fear, Innovation, Intellectual

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• All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity.

  Rahul Gandhi

  People, Justice, Political

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• There is no greater path to mediocrity in life than trying to be realistic.

  Sean Plott

  Trying, Path, Realistic

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• Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.

  Andrew Keen

  Creating, Monkeys, Digital

  "The Cult of the Amateur". Book by Andrew Keen, June 5, 2007.

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• But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content with being mediocre; they'll do everything in their power to prevent even the humblest of teachers and children from accomplishing anything extraordinary. For good work shines a light on the failures of the mediocre, and that is a light which terrifies those who conspire to keep our nation's children, like themselves, ordinary.

  Rafe Esquith

  Teacher, Children, Ignorance

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• Let others lead small lives, but not you

  Jim Rohn

  Purpose, Small Life, Real Estate Motivational

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• Challenge is the opportunity for greatness. People do their best when there is an opportunity to change how things currently stand. Maintaining the status quo facilitates mediocrity. Those who embrace this practice do not wish to rest on their laurels. They motivate others to exceed their limits and look for innovative ways to improve the organization.

  James M. Kouzes

  Leadership, Opportunity, Greatness

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• All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object.

  Jean Renoir

  Photography, Artist, Perfect

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• Regulators are power-lusting mediocrities.

  Yaron Brook

  Lust, Regulators

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• If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Heroism, Levels

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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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• They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Doe, Limiting Beliefs

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Feb 26, 2017

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• A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Math, Paper, Dozen

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

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