Mediocrity Quotes - Page 20

• I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.

  Bill Veeck

  Leadership, Sports, Mind

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• I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.

  Ani DiFranco

  Army, Hours, Finest

  Song: Not So Soft

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• I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Trying, Comfort

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.234, Penguin

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• Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.

  Patrick Kavanagh

  Men, Expression, Sticks

  Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”

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• As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.

  Tom Petty

  Art, Boys, Media

  Song: The Last DJ, Album: The Last DJ

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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, Safe

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• That Monica who's just gonna sit there in mediocrity... That Monica died in Samoa

  Monica Denise Brown

  Samoa, Monica, Died

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• Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.

  Mason Cooley

  Time, Ambition, Tricks

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• Attaining even mediocrity is often a struggle.

  Mason Cooley

  Struggle, Achievement

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• We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.

  Caryll Houselander

  Grace, Desire, Complacency

  Caryll Houselander (1945). “The Flowering Tree”

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• Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a genre is for satirizing, unless you know how to do it, there are no guarantees.

  James Berardinelli

  Genre Is, Guarantees, Matter

  "Robin Hood: Men in Tights (United States, 1993)". Movie review, www.reelviews.net.

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• Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession is to strike the right balance of mediocrity in writing and thinking, which invariably entails echoing one of two party lines, poorly.

  Ilana Mercer

  Party, Writing, Thinking

  "National Review Eunuchs". www.wnd.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity.

  Indro Montanelli

  Democracy, Triumph, Constitution

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• We often reward mediocrity because it is comforting. If they can do it, anyone can do it.

  Jessica Zafra

  Comforting, Rewards, Can Do

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• The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold mediocrity, our passions hurry us, with rapid violence, over the space which lies between the most opposite extremes.

  Edward Gibbon

  Lying, Passion, Opposites

  Edward Gibbon (1837). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.180

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• Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

  Gore Vidal

  Business, Useless Stuff, Time Management

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• In the age of mediocrity and clones, John Stowell's uniqueness and originality are a breath of fresh air. I love playing with him.

  Paul Horn

  Air, Age, Originality

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• The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.

  Seth Godin

  Age, Compliance

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• Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it.

  Graham Cooke

  Passion, Invisible, Shows

  FaceBook post by Graham Cooke from Mar 06, 2011

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• Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

  Marie Corelli

  Greatness, Envy, Host

  Marie Corelli (1972). “Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and Conduct”, p.332, Health Research Books

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• If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Purpose, Return, Plugs

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• You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.

  Carlos Slim

  Organization, People, Pessimist

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• In business, what distinguishes leaders from laggards and greatness from mediocrity is the ability to uniquely imagine what could be.

  Robert Fritz

  Greatness, Leader, Imagine

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• Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over

  Seth Godin

  Careers, Errors, Effort

  Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.27, Penguin

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• Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.

  George E. P. Box

  Simple, Signatures, Scientist

  "Science and Statistics". Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 71, No. 356, (p. 792), December, 1976.

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