Mediocrity Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.

  Bruce Henderson

  Typical, Should, Disadvantages

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• Strive for perfection - never be content with mediocrity. You don't win until you conquer the little flaws. You don't beat these great ones until your form is perfect. This is true in all of life. A flaw in a product can ruin a business. A personal failing, a little one, can ruin a person's life. Don't be content with mediocrity - strive to live up to the greatest within you.

  Bob Richards

  Leadership, Sports, Winning

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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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• Never let the limitations or insecurities of others limit what is possible for you.

  Hal Elrod

  Insecurity, Limiting Beliefs, Limits

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Nov 30, 2014

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• Go after what you want as if your life depended on it. Because it Does!

  Les Brown

  Doe, Want, Thinking Differently

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• As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Apathy, Myopia, Fields

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.139, Ballantine Books

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• Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

  Harold Bloom

  Want, Failing, Prodigies

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• Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.

  Colin Powell

  Inspirational, Hate, Trying

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• There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity.

  Nnamdi Azikiwe

  Average, People, Care

  "My Odyssey: An Autobiography". Book by Nnamdi Azikiwe, 1970.

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• But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence.

  Price Pritchett

  Responsibility, Ethical Standards, Organization

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• It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

  Richard Yates

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Richard Yates (2010). “Revolutionary Road”, p.60, Random House

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• You will not experience all life has to offer you or begin to experience life at its fullest as long as you are satisfied with mediocrity. You have to be disgusted with your current circumstances before your circumstances can change.

  Eric Thomas

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge

  Claude Bernard

  Men, Mediocre

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• Yes, I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him. Some appear to have it more than others only because they are aware of it more than others are, and the awareness or unawareness of it is what makes each one of them into masters or holds them down to mediocrity.

  Glenn Clark

  Believe, Men, Genius

  Glenn Clark (2008). “The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe”, p.12, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it's better to write a book that kind of sucks rather than no book at all, as you wait around to magically become Faulkner. No one is going to write your book for you and you can't write anybody's book but your own.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Book, Writing, Waiting

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• Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.

  Ann Richards

  Family, Doe, Cherish

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• But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it's hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.

  Banksy

  Artist, Self, Views

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• Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Break, Humans

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