Mediocrity Quotes

Mediocrity is underrated.
Mary-Louise Parker

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.
Rene Magritte

Present, Bomb, Atom

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Natalie Clifford Barney

I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.
Jackie Cooper

Work, Good, Hope

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

Plan, Possible, Industry

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.
Nelson Boswell

Between, Often, Greatness

Everything about mediocrity kills me.
Ivanka Trump

Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.
Armand Assante

Literature, Air

I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.
Ernst Lubitsch

Work, Sometimes, Said

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.
Henry S. Haskins

Good, Last, Behavior

Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity.
Elizabeth Price

Sports, School, Team

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
Hugh Blair

Enjoyment, Allowed

The bar is so low in rap - mediocrity is king!
Jay Electronica

Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.
Austin Ligon

Change, May, Situation

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
Patrick Kavanagh

Another, Name, Malice

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Politics, Greatness, Needed

The function of a genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.
Hugh Trevor-Roper

Time, Give, Genius

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
Charles G. Dawes

Dignity, Preserve, Requires

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