Mediocrity Quotes - Page 22

• A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.

  John Suckling

  Quiet, Stills

  Sir John Suckling (1766). “The Works of Sir John Suckling: Containing His Poems, Letters, and Plays”, p.128

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• Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.

  Vanna Bonta

  Love, Hate, Inspire

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• The height of mediocrity is still low.

  Vanna Bonta

  Height, Lows, Stills

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• Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.

  Lauryn Hill

  Doors, Way, Compromise

  "Queen of Hip-Hop". The Academy of Achievements Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

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• I often ask myself: "What would Theodore Roosevelt do?" One can never know, of course. The ultimate contribution of consequential leaders is often their capacity to reframe issues in novel ways. That said, his leadership engaged, at a foundational level, whether the American "national character" would accept decline and mediocrity, or would go all-in for leadership and excellence. Amid the myriad of otherwise disconnected issues before us, that choice is emerging yet again.

  James M Strock

  Character, Choices, Leader

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• When Americans decry our politicians, we must remember that ultimately, politicians reflect us. When we demand more than mediocrity - and the passing comforts it bestows - we will certainly attain it. One hopes and prays it doesn't take an historic crisis for us to demand and reward excellence in public service.

  James M Strock

  Excellence, Comfort, Praying

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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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• It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any.

  Pliny the Younger

  Art, Skills, Perfection

  Pliny (the Younger) (1807). “The Letters of Pliny the Consul: With Occasional Remarks”, p.195

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• Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.

  Kathleen Norris

  Real, Found

  Kathleen Thompson Norris (1931). “Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women”

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• Think you are weak, think you lack what it takes, think you will lose, think you are second class - think this way and you are doomed to mediocrity.

  David J. Schwartz

  Thinking, Class, Way

  David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.118, Penguin

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• Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been pleased to place us in here; wherein, to check our over-confidence and presumption, we might, by every day's experience, be made sensible of our short-sightedness, and liableness to error.

  John Locke

  Kindness, Errors, Might

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• Your character is your destiny. Building character is a task for the brave and dedicated. There are no shortcuts when it comes to building character. If you wish to cure minimalism in your own life, to develop a complete commitment to excellence and an absolute rejection of mediocrity, the question you need to start asking yourself is, "What is the most I can do?"

  Matthew Kelly

  Character, Commitment, Destiny

  Matthew Kelly (2004). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Talking, Ease, Feels

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Artist As Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.433, Random House

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• I got a feeling that after six years of disappointment, of mediocrity and decline, a slow course correction is not what voters are going to be looking for in 2016.

  Rick Perry

  Disappointment, Years, Feelings

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• To do science today is to experience a dimension unique in contemporary working lives; the work promises something incomparable: the sense of living both personally and historically. That is why science now draws to itself all kinds of people - charlatans, mediocrities, geniuses - everyone who wants to touch the flame, feel alive to the time.

  Vivian Gornick

  Science, Unique, Flames

  Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.16, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• This Western culture of ours tends to sacrifice the full range of experience to a lower common denominator that's acceptable to more people; we end up with McDonald's instead of real food, Holiday Inns instead of homes, and USA Today instead of news and cultural analysis. And we do that with the rest of our lives.

  Kate Bornstein

  Real, Home, Holiday

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• We must embrace the fact that if we don't commit to thinking and living differently than most people now, we are setting ourselves up to endure a life of mediocrity, struggle, failure and regret-just like most people.

  Hal Elrod

  Regret, Struggle, Thinking

  Hal Elrod (2016). “The Miracle Morning: The 6 Habits That Will Transform Your Life Before 8AM”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• Anything you do fearless, you do in mediocrity.

  Suzanne Evans

  Fearless

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• You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the world needs.

  Debbie Ford

  Light, Order, Needs

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• Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Genius, Stealing

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• There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Class, Criticism, Pleasure

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• The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Ideas, Publicity, Minutes

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• Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

  Hugh Blair

  Men, Enjoyment

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• I cannot live in mediocrity, content with merely knowing that there is more of God to experience and explore -and then do nothing about it. Truths that are not experienced are, in effect, more like theories than truths. Whenever God reveals truth to us He is inviting us into a divine encounter.

  Bill Johnson

  Knowing, Church, Encounters

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• If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved.

  Seth

  Differences, People, Making A Difference

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